Kiel Fachdidaktik Englisch

Young adult fiction characteristics

• protagonists are teenage boys and girls
-young adults can easily identify with them
• ~ 100-250 pages
• stories centred around issues relevant during puberty
• authentic novels / plays (in contrast to simplified readers) but language style not too elaborate
• Plot: focus on the behaviour and decisions of the protagonist, her/ his internal and external conflicts shape the plot
• Time / location: (usually) set in contemporary time
• narrative perspective: (teenage) first-person-narrator → reflected in language, style

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