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Romance/Love: March 14, 2012 Issue [#4934]

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 This week: Love in Young Adult Literature
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Love in Young Adult Literature


I have a personal philosophy about movies: every great movie contains at least one kiss. It's not just a silly thought. When you think about it, one of the central ideas present in most American movies is the idea of love or romance of one kind or another.

The same is true for many works of young adult literature. After all, the teenage years are often when we experience feelings of romantic love for the first time. A novel about teenagers would be lacking without at least a hint of dating drama.

How an author handles romantic relationships in young adult novels depends a lot on the storyline, of course. But there are some scenerios that can be found time and time again. The classic "girl meets boy and falls in love scenerio" is one of them. So is the "love triangle" scenerio.

But these days, even first relationships are so much more complex than in the past. What happens when two teens from different social classes fall in love? What if you twisted that scenerio to fit a paranormal romance, one of the most popular young adult categories? What if a girl is attracted to a boy, only to find out that he is gay? What if two teens are experiencing their first homosexual relationship? What if one or both of the teens may be dying, such as in John Green's The Fault of Our Stars? These are just some angles that a young adult romance can take.

Young adult literature is one of the most diverse genres out there. From historical to paranormal, there's really no end to its subgenres. A certain amount of fluffy, romantic love will probably always be present in some novels, but for the most part teenage love is not perfect and should not be portrayed as such. Adding more realistic portrayals of love can give your novel the conflict it needs to stand above the rest.



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