A narrativa da descoberta do amor em Eleanor & Park: adolescência, bullying e primeiro amor

Abstract

This project aims to this study the development of bullying in the young adult book Eleanor & Park, of the American writer Rainbow Rowell, considering the connection of bullying and first love establish by some readers about the book analyzed. In this book, Rowell, presents concerns about several changes in teenagers lives and how they face the development of their physical characteristics, beyond their reactions about falling in love for the first time, the bullying that they have been suffered for being different and not to fit in with the colleagues, this way portraying, as main focus, the relationship between Eleanor and Park. In order to establish such a relationship between readers and the book and the main theme addressed by it with the requirements presented, it was necessary to use surveys conducted by the social network for Brazilian readers, Skoob. In this way, in order to reach the objective defined here, It was used the researches of Bandeira and Hutz (2012), Pesce, Assis and Avanci (2008), Picado (2009), Gregorin Filho (2007), Azevedo (2006), Costa (2012), among other researchers about Bullying and Aggression, Young Adult Literature, and the concerns about love in youth. The analysis is made by comparing the answers of the interviews with the relationships between bullying and love in adolescence, taking into consideration how the readers identify themselves with the book.