Thursday, October 30, 2014

Linger

Stiefvater, Maggie (2010) Linger. NY: Scholastic Press.

Sam Roth is an eighteen-year-old werewolf. Sam has a girlfriend name Grace who has been bitten as a child but never turned.  Sam is committed to finding a cure of werewolfism.  Grace’s parents rebels against Sam and Grace’s relationship, so Grace moves in with Sam.  Grace and Sam figured that Grace will die because she never turns into a werewolf. Another werewolf re-infects Grace and she turns immediately into a werewolf.  Now Sam wants to be a werewolf again, so that he can be with his love.  The recommendation age for this book is 16-18.  The lessons from this book in my opinion is that we all have to change and when we do sometimes we have to let go of things that is common to us.  Havigurst’s theory of developmental task is that teens undergo changing relationships with parents and a need to develop an easy relationship with the opposite sex.  Grace had to undergo changes with her parents.  Adolescents have to adapt to their physical bodies as well.

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