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Syracuse UniversitySURFACESyracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program CapstoneProjectsProjectsSpring 5-2016Unusual Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in Children: Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in Time and The GiverOlivia MorrisFollow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstoneÍT Part of the English Language and Literature CommonsRecommended CitationMorris. Olivia. "Unusual Children: Queerishness and Strange Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle inGrowth in A Wrinkle in Time and The Giver" (2016). Syracuse University Honors Program Capstone Projects. 957.https://surface syr edu/honors_capstone/9Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in
57This Honors Capstone Project is brought to you for free and open access by the Syracuse University Honors Program Capstone Projects at SURFACE. It hSyracuse UniversitySURFACESyracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program CapstoneProjectsProjectsSpring 5-2016Unusual Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in, p ease contact surface@syr eduUnusual Children: Queerishness and Strange Growth in J Wrinkle in Time and The GiverAbstractThis project examines two different pieces of modem children’s literature, Madeline L’Lnglc’s A Wrinkle in Time and I.ois Lowry's The Giver, in terms of their protagonists' res Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle inpective strange identities. T begin with Katherine Stockton's theory of sideways growth, which outlines the unusualncss often found in child protagoniUnusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in
st. 1 use Stockton’s work as a jumping oil'point to examine the quccrishncss of two protagonists. L’Lnglc’s Mcg Murray and Lowry's Jonas. Mcg is unfemSyracuse UniversitySURFACESyracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program CapstoneProjectsProjectsSpring 5-2016Unusual Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle inmbrace her "Haws" (her unfcmininc. difficult to define trails) and use them to save her family. Jonas lives in a dystopian society that lias embraced Sameness and which reflects Foucault's hypothetical Panopticon. Tt uses surveillance to make sure its citizens and the language they use are easy to c Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle inategorize. When he is chosen as the Receiver mid charged with the burden of all the memories his community has forbidden, he is symbolically reborn. TUnusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in
hrough his connection with his mentor. The Giver, and an infant named Gabe who is physically growing the “wrong" way. Jonas uses his strange individuaSyracuse UniversitySURFACESyracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program CapstoneProjectsProjectsSpring 5-2016Unusual Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle inand theories of childhood gender and sexuality to open up modern children's literature to the possibility of queemess (or at least “queerishness”). I begin with Kathryn Stockton's theory of “sideways growth." This theory, elaborated upon in Stockton's essay "Growing Sideways, or Versions of the Quee Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle inr Child: The Ghost, the Homosexual, the Innocent, and the Interval of the Animal" and later in her book Queer Child, posits that many young fictionalUnusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in
characters have strange, undefinable individualities that are unique to childhood. Although I use the basis of her theory of strange growth. I veer siSyracuse UniversitySURFACESyracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program CapstoneProjectsProjectsSpring 5-2016Unusual Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle inkle in Time. I argue that the protagonist. Meg. is a strangely growing character who skews gender norms in unusual ways. Meg is picked on in school because she is unfeminine, expresses her emotions in the wrong ways, and is bad in school — despite her mathematical brilliance, she receives poor grade Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle ins for solving problems using unconventional means. When Meg is taken away by three “witches” to rescue her father, her undesirable differences becomeUnusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in
her greatest weapon.I rely largely on post-structuralist theory, which argues that identity (including sexual and gender identity) is constructed and Syracuse UniversitySURFACESyracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program CapstoneProjectsProjectsSpring 5-2016Unusual Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle inorized by those signifiers. Meg is treated with disdain by her peers because she is hard to pin down and does not have a conventional relationship with language. Further, she defends her brother Charles Wallace, who falls under Stockton's category of a “ghost’' — a child who is polite, obedient, and Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in overly mature in order to cover up his inner strangeness or perversity. Charles Wallace has a strange knowledge of others' feelings and of events toUnusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in
come, and his vocabulary is4far beyond that of the ordinary six-year-old. Like Meg. he is not growing or solving problems in the correct way. and Meg’Syracuse UniversitySURFACESyracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program CapstoneProjectsProjectsSpring 5-2016Unusual Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in. I engage with a feminist critique by Katherine Schneebaum. who argues that the narrative of J Wrinkle in Time takes Meg from unconventionally masculine girl to acceptably feminine. I push back against this assertion, arguing instead that Meg is more interested in embodying her father than her moth Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle iner and that her journey does not end with her embracing womanhood, but rather with her embracing her own strong feelings in order to rescue two male cUnusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in
haracters < her father and her brother). I also focus on the creatures Meg meets, such as the witches, who, while referred to with female pronouns andSyracuse UniversitySURFACESyracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program CapstoneProjectsProjectsSpring 5-2016Unusual Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle infaceless, genderless being who heals and mentors Meg. Aunt Beast has little knowledge of gendered terms, and does not even recognize Meg as a girl; her own title of •‘Aunt'' is given by Meg. not herself, and Meg also considers titles such as "brother" and "father.” She cares for Meg and her friends Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle inwhile skewing binary gender. She and the witches are metaphors with which Meg identifies, and they encourage her to embrace her strange growth and indUnusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in
ividuality' as positive, powerful tools.In the second chapter I focus on The Giver by Lois Lowry, a story of a dystopia disguised as a utopia. Using tSyracuse UniversitySURFACESyracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program CapstoneProjectsProjectsSpring 5-2016Unusual Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle inlanguage. I focus largely on Foucauldian theories of power structures and surveillance, starting with his Panopticon, a hypothetical prison that surveils its occupants only part of the time, yet keeps them in check with the sight of a central surveillance tower that compels the prisoners to regulate Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in5themselves. Jonas' community operates under Sameness, and its constant threat of surveillance (its cameras and public announcements indirectly but obUnusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in
viously aimed at individual community members) keep its citizens in line. Despite his self-regulation, Jonas is unable to hide his own strangeness. UnSyracuse UniversitySURFACESyracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program CapstoneProjectsProjectsSpring 5-2016Unusual Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle ine friend. This corresponds with his “stirrings," the initiation of pubescent sexual feelings.These differences. which are initially punished, result in the community selecting Jonas as the Receiver. Mentored by an old man called The Giver, he receives memories from a time before Sameness, taking the Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle inm on as a burden so that the rest of community doesn't have to. He is symbolically reborn, adopting a “new consciousness" within the memories, which iUnusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in
ntroduce him to forbidden concepts such as weather, family, and war. Through The Giver's memories — and the symbolic presence of his bookshelves — JonSyracuse UniversitySURFACESyracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program CapstoneProjectsProjectsSpring 5-2016Unusual Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in by the community because words like “love" are “too generalized.” This new embrace of language corresponds with the arrival of Gabriel, an infant who is literally growing strangely. Gabe is too small and too fussy, so he is unable to be placed with a family. He also reminds Jonas of himself. Jonas Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle inshares his memories with Gabe to calm him. creating a bond — a “found family." a trope in queer narratives.The climax of the novel focuses on Gabe. JoUnusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in
nas realizes that violence has not been eliminated by Sameness but rather concealed. Gabe is still not growing correctly, so he is scheduled for “releSyracuse UniversitySURFACESyracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program CapstoneProjectsProjectsSpring 5-2016Unusual Unusual Children- Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle inmories he’s received and raising questions of revolution. Jonas and Gabe are pursued, but they don't see their6Gọi ngay
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