{"id":235,"date":"2014-09-21T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T21:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/?p=235"},"modified":"2014-09-22T11:59:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T15:59:37","slug":"235","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/2014\/09\/21\/235\/","title":{"rendered":"No Surprise That YAL Continues To Grow In Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upon reading David Cappella’s “Kicking It Up Beyond the Casual: Fresh Perspectives in Young Adult Literature,”\u00a0<\/em>one of the article’s main points that caught my interest was how he argues “we should not be surprised”[1] that YAL continues to grow in popularity. Cappella explains in his introduction that young adults “perplex us… [they] are the focus… they are in the news, on TV, the subjects of movies, and on trial in our courts”[1]. When a teenage girl kills herself and two of her friends in a car that she was driving drunk, it’s front page news. There’s an entire MTV series called “sixteen and pregnant” which shows the life of sixteen-year old girls who have a baby and have to raise it and grow up with it, often on their own due to the father of the child abandoning her. In today’s society, “we fret over where [young adults] are and what they are doing”[1] because they get so much attention.”Amid this attention”[1], Capella explains, “YAL remains a growth industry”[1], as who wouldn’t want to write literature based on and related to this “spectacularly unique”[1] age group. \u00a0Cappella’s point is easily relatable to TFIOS because even with TFIOS being a YAL about the dramatic and romantic ill-ridden relationship between two teenagers with cancer, within TFIOS, YAL is prominent. An\u00a0Imperial Affliction<\/em>, a book about a girl struggling with cancer just like Hazel, is an iconic artifact in Hazel’s life that she has read over and over again. It shapes her personality, is her safe-haven and prized possession, and is a huge part of TFIOS because it leads to Gus and Hazel connecting with one another and going to Amsterdam. When an iconic YAL such as TFIOS has its main character constantly talking about and relating her life to a YAL that she read, as well as a huge part of the story being based off of her obsessiveness with that book, it is evident that YAL is growing and will continue to grow in popularity.<\/p>\n

[1]-\u00a0Cappella, David. “Kicking It Up Beyond the Casual: Fresh Perspectives in Young Adult Literature.”\u00a0JSTOR<\/i>. Studies in the Novel, University of North Texas, 2010. Web. 21 Sept. 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Upon reading David Cappella’s “Kicking It Up Beyond the Casual: Fresh Perspectives in Young Adult Literature,”\u00a0one of the article’s main points that caught my interest was how he argues “we should not be surprised”[1] that YAL continues to grow in popularity. Cappella explains in his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/guiltypleasures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}