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- - - - "While having problems relevant to the protagonist’s age is important, the challenges of growing up don’t have to be the story’s central obstacle. This is particularly obvious in YA novels of other genres, such as fantasy and dystopian."
      - Source used: https://writersedit.com/fiction-writing/ultimate-guide-ya-fiction/
    - - "The coming-of-age novel features a teenage protagonist growing up. The character goes through significant changes, either in their circumstances (such as graduating from high school) or as a result of an event (such as a death or breakup)."
      - Source used: https://writersedit.com/fiction-writing/ultimate-guide-ya-fiction/
    - - The chosen one
        
        "We’ve all read a novel where the protagonist starts off seemingly completely normal, until they’re suddenly thrust into a new world and discover that only they have the power to fix the universe. A lot of YA fantasy and science fiction novels feature this trope."
        
        Source used: https://writersedit.com/fiction-writing/ultimate-guide-ya-fiction/
      - The love Triangle
      - "I'm different from other girls"
        
        "In an attempt to stray from the stereotypical cheerleader or bitchy teenage character, YA fiction has inadvertently created another trope: female protagonists who are 'different from other girls'."
        
        Source used: https://writersedit.com/fiction-writing/ultimate-guide-ya-fiction/
      - The outsider
      - Geek becomes beauty
      - Good vs Evil
      - First love
  - - - "main character being forced into making the choice between two people who love them equally."
      - Examples: Twilight and The Hunger Games (an example I know (not from source) The Selection Series).
      - This device can be compelling, but it can also distract from the main plot.
        "make the protagonist deal with conflict that does not further the main plot."
      - Source used: https://www.proquest.com/docview/1927235377?pq-origsite=primo
    - - Found in many dystopian novels.
      - "The rulers of the government are portrayed more like machines than humans"
      - "often accompanied by the poor majority, who live under the wrath of evil"
      - Source used: https://www.proquest.com/docview/1927235377?pq-origsite=primo
    - - "Most Gothic YA texts contain a romance plot, often because the protagonists typically occupy the liminal space between childhood and adulthood demarcated by sexual experience."
      - "the school story—a conventionally realist genre—has begun to include supernatural gothic characters including vampires, witches, angels, and zombies"
      - Source used: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10583-018-9343-0
      - "The heroines’ romantic interests place them in conflict with the ultimate aims of the institutions to protect their pupils, conservatively linking their sexual maturation with danger to themselves and others."
      - "In Vampire Academy, for example, Rose’s attraction to Dimitri is deemed inappropriate because of the age difference of seven years, his role as her mentor, and their shared guardian duty to keep Lissa safe."
- - - - Characters embark on a journey that leads to self discovery through quest patterns.
      - “it is about everybody's inevitable and recurring transformations and renewals, about continuous rebirth and rediscovery of the self”
      - This three stage adventure can be seen in Harry potter, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Star Trek.
      - Hero's have the stereotypical characteristics of social outcasts, have special gifts, they are in a place they aren't familiar with and so on.
    - - Tool used to show that bullying is not presented as dysfunctional adolescent behaviour, but as a tool for addressing issues of difference and discrimination on the grounds of race, class, sexual orientation or personality; issues that filter into adolescent culture
      - Used in The Outsiders, The Lord of the Flies, or The Catcher in the Rye as a technique.
      - It is now being used as a tool to teach peace in school locations.
    - - Dystopian writing presents the global concerns: liberty and self-determination, environmental destruction and looming catastrophe, questions of identity and justice.
      - Used to convey social issues through literature. Telling the story from the point of view of real people going thorough it.
  - - - Focuses on one character's perspective without speaking directly from that perspective (i.e. using 'he'/'she' instead of 'I').