On Theme Of Teenagers’ Sexual Love In Dear Nobody And Forever

Dear Nobody, a young adult novel written by a British writer Berlie Doherty, is one ofthe most representative works. Because of its attractive content and consistency in teenagersmental growth, the novel has been successively won the British Carnegie Medal, Writer sGuild of Great Britain Award, the Sheffield Award, Federation of Children s Book GroupsAward and Japanese Sankei Children s Book Award and so on. While, compared with DearNobody, an American popular writer Judy Blume s work Forever is a quite controversial work.The author frankly portrays teenager s first sexual intercourse so that it is always banned bycensorship. Nevertheless, both of the works reveal the teenager s sexual problems and alsohave their own educational values.At present, study of teenagers sexual love and each value is quite novel. Dear Nobodymainly focuses upon teenagers emotional growth after having sex, however, in Forever, thenovel pays much more attention to expose detailed description of teenage sexual intercourse.Therefore, the thesis attempts to analyze theme of sexual love in Dear Nobody and Forever soas to present teenagers real inner turmoil. The thesis can be divided into the following fiveparts:Introduction part is designed to offer information about Berlie Doherty and Judy Blume,and their works Dear Nobody and Forever. This part also provides current research on the twonovels and mentions significance of thesis.Chapter one mainly analyzes theme of sexual love from two perspectives: sexualmotivation and teenagers pregnancy.Chapter two discusses characters changing attitudes toward sexuality and adultspositive guidance. First part deals with how the young characters move toward maturitythrough the sexual love. Second part mainly discusses adults positive guidance to theirchildren.Chapter three discusses significance of theme of sexual love in the two novels andanalyzes different results for the same educational purpose. This part also involves the twoauthors different treatments in theme of sexual love.The conclusion part summarizes theme of sexual love and educational values in DearNobody and Forever. Though, both two novels reveal the issue of teenagers sexuality bravely,Dear Nobody pays more attention to moral aspect so that it plays positive role in teenagerssex education. Moreover, value of this thesis is highlighted in the last part.