Vanessa's Wonderland

What’s “Young-adult fiction?” Why should we care it? How does it matter to our life?

u  Young adult; juvenile; adolescent; teen; teenager; puberty

u  Genreà subgenre

u  History 文學=時代脈動 (CNN A brief history of young adult literature) 

u  Theme (what’s the story about?)

  Life & death; dream & adventure; love & lost

u  Character (protagonist/ antagonist)

u  Reader’s attitude

Ø   Not Didactic; (no need to learn something)à you need to be entertaining or inspired by the text.

u  Books/ works

Ø   Brian Selznick’s novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret(wiki-film) (quote)

        “Right after my father died, I would come up here a lot. I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine.Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason too.” (video clip) (Purpose)

 ü   What’s our connection to the world? Where’s our connection in the universe? à No one is extra.

 ü   à The Secret Garden (wiki) (note) (text)

 “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” (Clip)

Ø    J. D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye cf. week 2~3

Ø   The Reader (wiki) (IMDb) (trailer) (full movie)

u  Etymology/ words

Ø   Juv- (juvenile)  re-回春

Ø   Ori- (orientation/ original/ oriental )

Ø   Pro- in favor of (protagonist)

Ø   Ant- no (antagonist)

Ø   Penta- five (pentagon)

Ø   Fame à infamous- without good reputation

u  More

Ø   Movie

ü   Notting Hill 新娘百分百(1999) (wiki-district) (IMDb) (wiki-film)

 “I’m also just a girl.” (Clip)

 ü   The Wings Of The Dove 慾望之翼 (1997) (Wiki-book) (Wiki-film) (IMDb) (song clip) (study guide)   

 ü   Jerry Maguire 征服情海 (1996) (wiki) (IMDb)

“You complete me.” “You had me at hello” (clip) (someone’s reflection)

Ø   Song

ü   When I was one and twenty A. E. Housman (1859–1936) (poem) (wiki) (Song) (Chorus)

 ü   Part of your world (song) (lyrics) from The Little Mermaid