![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, this examination of a recent example of American children’s literature provides an insight into the stories American society is telling its children about itself stories that children will use to help navigate, interpret and define their world. This thesis focuses on five such characteristics: the association of ancient Greek characters with American cultural icons the juxtaposition of ancient Greek and contemporary American treatments of sex and alcohol, particularly in relation to children the engagement with emerging social norms around father-less households, including a re-gendering of the evil stepparent stereotype the use of female stereotypes to support the male hero and, finally, a depiction of financial transactions that engage with wider economic values occurring in America at the time of writing. ![]() This thesis contends that (and demonstrates how) Rick Riordan’s children’s novel The Lightning Thief (2005) provides an illustration of some of the characteristics of present-day American society and identity, aspects of which are so recent that they are yet to be widely portrayed in children’s literature. ![]()
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