The Benefits of Literature to Adolescents.

This document hosts the notes on what subject matter is, visual and written excerpts from the novel in focus. What is subject matter ? In works of fiction, a theme is the central idea or ideas explored in the story.  Literary  themes might be the  subject matter  or present itself or a message within the larger story. Visual extracts are taken from V.S Reid’s, ‘The Young Warriors’.                            Fig 1.1. Deduced from chapter 9, page77.            Fig 1.2. Deduced from chapter 11, page 90.        Fig 1.3. Deduced from chapter 12, page 95.    Fig 1.4. Deduced from chapter 15, page 109. Excerpts are taken from V.S Reid's novel 'The Young Warriors'.

Adolescence is the most crucial life stage of an individual that evokes inquisitiveness, rebellion, self fulfillment and concept. Adolescent Literature is essential in the lives of human beings in whatever form as it allows emotional and social aspects of a person’s being to develop. Literature serves as a medium through which writers and playwrights express their chain of thought, ideas, and experiences in the form of art. This art allows them to express themselves without limits and serves as a piece of work that impacts those who come in contact with it. Literature to adolescents serves many purposes that transparently influence them without their knowledge. Literature influences critical thinking exposes them to new cultures, traditions, and cults, also allow its readers to live vicariously through characters and models the appropriate use of language and builds vocabulary.  Literature books are incorporated in the syllabuses of high school, primary and the basic level i...