The Role of insurgency in shaping the adolescents' character
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2021
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Université Oum El Bouaghi
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Although Teenage insurgency is one of the major and recurrent themes which have their firm ground particularly in young adult literature. Surprisingly yet, it did not receive enough attention or has been taken seriously by researchers and critics. Young adult literature has insurgency as a major theme mainly due to the reason that most adult readers feel related to it. In addition that to the fact that adolescent insurgency is a complex theme that possesses many ulterior levels and is connected to various literary theories. The current research is a psychoanalytic study of John Green's most controversial young adult novel Looking for Alaska. Besides that it seeks to examine the causes and consequences of teenage insurgency in the novel. It centers on the idea that adolescent insurgency and personality construction are interchangeably related. The following assumptions are to form the basis for our study. The first assumption is that teenage insurgency has causes, which are mainly related to the psychology and cognitive development of the adolescents. The second assumption is that Adolescent insurgency has a significant impact on the adolescents both on the psychological side and the side of personality development and construction. We may say, in brief, that relying on a number of concepts in psychoanalysis; our research indicates that personality construction in adolescents is closely related to insurgency.
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Teenage insurgency, Psychoanalytic theory, Looking for alaska, Personality construction