Essay Outline

For my essay, I am going to concentrate on how authors choose to speak in an adolescent voice, even though they may be much older than the character they chose to portray in their novels. Obviously, I will set this up with a beginning paragraph (introduction) explaining what I am going to talk about and why. Ideally, what I wanted to talk about is a comparison to a novel I have currently read that featured a teenage character and then one of the ones that we have discussed in class (this is all of the information for the bulk of my paper). If I can do that (I still need to check and make sure) then I would probably be using The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks, and Charlotte Temple, because that is my favorite novel in class so far. I think it would be interesting to compare the two, especially because of the amount of time when they were written. I would discuss what is taboo during each time and focus on the obstacles each character has to overcome and why they are so relevant to the time period in which they are written. Also, I think that the message of the novels needs to be discussed as well, because each novel was written for a specific purpose. If I can't use The Last Song, I will just use another novel we have read in class. Lastly, I will do a conclusion paragraph summing up what I have talked about.