Lost and Found: Young Female Protagonists’ Search for Self Discovery in Dystopian Literature
Abstract
This paper focuses on female protagonists in young adult dystopian literature, specifically
Suzanne Weyn's The Bar Code Tattoo, Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games and Veronica
Roth's Divergent. The author questions what about these female protagonists sets them
apart from their respective dystopian societies and captivates young adult readers.
The author dissects these novels in the context of adolescence, a time of new beginnings
and daunting changes, all of which take place in a seemingly confusing and chaotic
world, and argues that dystopian young adult literature plays on the confusion, turmoil
and panic that exist in adolescence and creates a new reality out of it.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/9251Citation
Thomas, Brandi (2014). Lost and Found: Young Female Protagonists’ Search for Self Discovery in Dystopian
Literature. Master's thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/9251.Collections
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