{"id":443,"date":"2016-11-17T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=443"},"modified":"2016-11-17T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:23:14","slug":"irony-in-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2016\/11\/17\/irony-in-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony in Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both <em>Luna <\/em>by Julie Anne Peters and <em>Boy Meets Boy <\/em>by David Levithan are young adult novels that distinguish themselves by their language and structure.\u00a0 Young adult novels are typically driven by plot lines and messages, not by linguistics.\u00a0 Each novel follows this young adult theme entirely, by having characters whose main point is to find their identity while facing challenges and obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>Another genre that follows these ideals is the coming out story, which both of these novels are as well.\u00a0 Coming out stories have paralleling concepts, however, typically these struggles involve sexuality or gender identity and the coping mechanisms that characters use. <em>Luna <\/em>by Julie Anne Peters follows these ideals with a main character, Reagan, who is an adolescent trying to understand her own identity, while at the same time struggling to understand her transgender brother.\u00a0 The main character is facing challenges that many people face, attempting to define herself through high school, however she also endeavors to protect and comprehend what her sibling is going through. While <em>Luna <\/em>captures the coming out narrative structure, <em>Boy Meets Boy<\/em> strays from the \u2018common\u2019 construction of these stories.\u00a0 The main character, Paul, has already uncovered his identity, and he lives in a community that is overwhelmingly accepting and understanding.\u00a0 While some of Paul\u2019s peers are still attempting to understand their identity, we do not see these challenges as in depth because they are not happening with the main character.\u00a0 This creates a utopian experience within the book, which is not relatable.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to talk about how <em>Boy Meets Boy<\/em> is different than typical coming out stories because it does not fit common themes we see throughout the genre; however, the entire genre is about people breaking societal norms to find their own identities. There is a lot of irony in this analysis because if each story is valid in its own truth, then why do we think some coming out stories are \u2018abnormal\u2019 because they don\u2019t fit a certain structure?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Luna by Julie Anne Peters and Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan are young adult novels that distinguish themselves by their language and structure.\u00a0 Young adult novels are typically driven by plot lines and messages, not by linguistics.\u00a0 Each novel follows this young adult theme entirely, by having characters whose main point is to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2016\/11\/17\/irony-in-differences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irony in Differences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}