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Banned Books about Boys that are not Happy ...

This series will comfort misunderstood teens about personal inner turmoil.

The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.

There are many voices in this novel: children’s voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden’s voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.

James Trotter loses his parents in a horrible accident and is forced to live-miserably-with his two wicked aunts. Then James is given some magic crystals that give him hope. But when he accidentally spills these crystals on an old peach tree, strange things begin to happen. A peach starts to grow and grow until James is able to climb inside and escape his awful aunts!

And through this adventure, he makes some interesting friends, including Grasshopper, Earthworm, Miss Spider, and Centipede, and finally finds a place where he belongs.

Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

This is the story of what it’s like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie’s letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

01) James and the Giant Peach

01) Catcher in the Rye

01) Perks of being a Wallflower

02) Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to”a wonderful faraway place. In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his children’s books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died children mourned the world over, particularly in Britain where he had lived for many years.

02) J.D.Salinger Born in New York in 1919, Jerome David Salinger dropped out of several schools before enrolling in a writing class at Columbia University, publishing his first piece (“The Young Folks”) in Story magazine. Soon after, the New Yorker picked up the heralded “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” and more pieces followed, including “Slight Rebellion off Madison” in 1941, an early Holden Caulfield story. Following a stint in Europe for World War II, Salinger returned to New York and began work on his signature novel, 1951’s “The Catcher in the Rye,” an immediate bestseller for its iconoclastic hero and forthright use of profanity.

02) Stephen Chbosky (born January 25, 1970) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director best known for the coming of age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999). He also wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film Rent, and was co-creator, executive producer, and writer of the CBS television series Jericho, which began airing in 2006.

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04) Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from 03) Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a 04) The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of 03) Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Being a Wallflower.

Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude 04) James Trotter loses his parents in a horrible accident adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in This is the story of what it’s like to grow up in high school. and is forced to live-miserably-with his two wicked aunts.

Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for More intimate than a diary, Charlie’s letters are singular Then James is given some magic crystals that give him three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know hope. But when he accidentally spills these crystals on an complex for us to make any final comment about him or his where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All old peach tree, strange things begin to happen. A peach story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to starts to grow and grow until James is able to climb inside that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange and escape his awful aunts! And through this adventure, beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates he makes some interesting friends, including Grasshopper, and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world Earthworm, Miss Spider, and Centipede, and finally finds a There are many voices in this novel: children’s voices, of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when place where he belongs. adult voices, underground voices-but Holden’s voice is the all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet feel infinite.

05) A story about a boy who is unhappy and looking for a remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly way out. articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like 05) A depressed teen looking for an escape and a place to most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he belong.

06) James Trotter keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for 06) Charlie 07) Two Wicked Aunts the reader who can handle it to keep.

07) High School Society 08) I grew up with this book and knew that this was a book 05) a complaint from a high school boys perspective about a boy that was unhappy with his situation 08) I love this book and knew that it would be a great book 06) Holden Caulfield for the set 07) Society 08) why did you pick this book to redesign?

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Audience Persona: Francis is a young misunderstood boy, in high school. He has lots of inner turmoil. Still living at home with his parents they get on his nerves frequently and don’t understand him. His parents are not supportive of his interest in the arts and his ability to draw. This is the one thing that he has for himself that he feel he does well.

When he draws he can escape from, what he sees as, a bleak existence that he lives. His parents want him to grow up and be a lawyer businessman type. His parents and the few friends that he has cause drama and turmoil in his head. Francis would buy my series of books as a source of comfort. These books would express a similar expression to how he feels. Any other young adult boy or girl could pick up these books and find something that they connect to. The series could be in the best seller section of a bookstore or in the young adult area.

Concept Statement: This series will comfort misunderstood teens about personal inner turmoil. teen angst - When teenagers, for any number of reasons combined with their hormones and stress from school, get depressed.

Contrary to popular belief, some teenagers actually do have it rough and have to deal with shit most adults don’t have to. Other teens don’t and just like to pretend they do. Either way, everyone has a right to be pissed off This series will guide troubled teens about depression when growing up.

This series will challenge moody young adults about transformative experiences.

This series will alter lost boys about dissatisfied existence.

This series will comfort searching individuals about time of change in other people.

Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right—I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game. -Catcher in the Rye “I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking.”

-Catcher in the Rye

Color Studies

Project Overview: My goal in this project was to make a unified collection of bookcovers for a young viewer. The collection of books I connected were base on the theme of moody young men who try to escape there current situation for something better. The hand written text on the covers refrence the personality of each main character.

Through the process of making these book jackets I have learned more about formating text and working with handdrawn text.