Empowerment in A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Authors

  • Fatemeh Farnia Shiraz University
  • Farideh Pourgiv Shiraz University, Shiraz

Keywords:

A Monster Calls, literary empowerment, psychological empowerment, social empowerment, linguistic empowerment

Abstract

The issue of power has always existed in literature and it also appears in children and young adult literature. Fiction for young adults addresses subjects which people are faced with in everyday life and writers of such fiction try to make use of tangible topics to give a voice to children and young adult literature reducing their Otherness in order to pave the way for empowerment. In this study A Monster Calls is analysed based on four types of empowerment. It is argued that as the central theme of the story is death, the writer has managed to guide the young protagonist of the story through different techniques of characterization, plot, setting, fantasy and pictures to come to terms with losing his mother to cancer. The reader can also go through the same stages and feel empowered at the end.

Author Biography

Fatemeh Farnia, Shiraz University

Fatemeh Farnia

Shiraz University Shiraz, Iran

PhD candidate of English Literature landofdreamsna@gmail.com,

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Published

2017-12-09

How to Cite

Farnia, F., & Pourgiv, F. (2017). Empowerment in A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. LiBRI. Linguistic and Literary Broad Research and Innovation, 6(2), pp. 41-49. Retrieved from https://lumenpublishing.com/journals/index.php/libri/article/view/1667

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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2017): LiBRI volume 6, issue 2, year 2017

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