Post about how the characters in your YA novels make intertextual connections to art, music, dance, film, or other books and texts to express and develop their intersubjective consciousness.
Losing her best friend to suicide, Cody is on a mission to figure out how and why this happened. She refuses to believe that Meg decided to do this on her own. The intertextual connections that Cody makes is through the cyber world-the internet. She discovers through articles and links, posts & blogs, that there are numerous groups out there that assist one another when it comes to suicide. She goes undercover pretending to be one of those lost souls to try to uncover who Meg was talking to, who assisted her when it came to that decision to end her life. Besides finding out how it all went down she also discovered that the internet can be a scary place.
“It seems abstract when you’re dealing with people online, but they are still people, and some of them are not nice people, not the kind you ever want to be in a room with...Sometimes you don’t even need to be in the same room for the damage to be done.”
Losing her best friend to suicide, Cody is on a mission to figure out how and why this happened. She refuses to believe that Meg decided to do this on her own. The intertextual connections that Cody makes is through the cyber world-the internet. She discovers through articles and links, posts & blogs, that there are numerous groups out there that assist one another when it comes to suicide. She goes undercover pretending to be one of those lost souls to try to uncover who Meg was talking to, who assisted her when it came to that decision to end her life. Besides finding out how it all went down she also discovered that the internet can be a scary place.
“It seems abstract when you’re dealing with people online, but they are still people, and some of them are not nice people, not the kind you ever want to be in a room with...Sometimes you don’t even need to be in the same room for the damage to be done.”