The Post-Apocalyptic Space, Character, and Morality in Middle-Grade Children’s Literature
Stories for young readers overwhelmingly aim to educate on what is good and how a person must behave as a moral member of society. The question of how characters may further solidify moral right and wrong in the post-apocalyptic setting of my story The Neverending Sea became a focus for my research...
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| Language: | English |
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Elen Caldecott & Lucy Cuthew
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Leaf Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/lj/article/view/106 |
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| Summary: | Stories for young readers overwhelmingly aim to educate on what is good and how a person must behave as a moral member of society. The question of how characters may further solidify moral right and wrong in the post-apocalyptic setting of my story The Neverending Sea became a focus for my research. Through this paper, I present: the discoveries made on the importance of children’s spaces in the post-apocalyptic; how characters can present a reader with moral dilemmas from the safety of the page, and perhaps, how they can be used to socialise young readers’ sense of right and wrong.
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| ISSN: | 2753-6920 |