Identity Comprehension

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How can the way we look at literature affect the construction of our own identity?

1. How does literature affect identity?

2. What makes identity important among adolescence?

3. When do we know our true identity?

4. What events in adolescents' life shape their identity?

5. What phases do people go through while experiencing finding identity?

6. What are the different types of areas of identity?

WHY?

I would like to go into depth about the way that identity plays a huge part in adolescent lives and the person that it will be in the future. I have struggled with identity to this very day and understand that the experience can be extremely frustrating and with reading the novels and speaking to people, I have discovered that people suffer from a lack of their identity in different areas.   

RELATED NOVELS

  • The Hate You Give
  • The Absolute True Diary of A Part-Time Indian 
  • SOLD
  • Boy Meets Boy
SOURCES 
I will more than likely do my research through online sources and books to be able to see how events in characters' live shapes their identity and data from sources that show how identity progresses through a lifetime.

CLAIMS
I believe that an adolescent's environment and actions do affect their journey through identity and books that include the subject helps better understand the struggle and difficulties throughout the process. 

CHALLENGES 
I would like to gain more insight into identity and better understand how adolescent literature plays a huge role in incorporating identity struggles within the novels. 


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