On your own blog, tell why your novel is a “coming of age” story. Give specific examples from your reading.
Ophelia Speaks is a Coming of Age book, that gave teenage girls that sent in submissions an outlet to speak about their life changing experiences.
The girls tell their thoughts on their experiences, most are sad, but they really give a real authors point of view. One of my favorite ones is actually in the front, it's a bit morbid but it's actually so descriptive you can the intensity of her eyes and the blade, the thoughts that are going through her head, the idea of her sanity and the idea of her outlet or expression against the doctors, her thoughts and her peers lack of understanding. My favorite is "Insomnia- A Journal Entry" When I read it, I can hear her words pouring out in my thoughts, the urgency and need in her words, " I don't want to die. I want to purge. I want to sleep at night, where nightmares can be woken up from. I am not crazy." She gave us peak into her world, and we saw the living hell of her life, the inability to sleep, the therapists, and the life she's been living, or at least a little of it.
Others tell their other experiences of their life nad how they overcome it. There was a Portorican girl that wanted to give birth. No, she will give birth. Dispite all the judgements of everyone around her, she has made her desision to have her child. "Being a young mother is not a burden upon society." She gave insight on her experience as a pregnant woman.
The author is showing girls that they are not alone, that more than a few people can relate. Each of these stories are there so everyone can relate to this book and not feel alone. Every girl or maybe even everyone, one way or another, has experienced a few of these experiences, and they are things that you will growing up. This is a book, not just a story. It's many stories of girls experiences in life. Thats how this is a coming of age book.
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