The Campfire's Glow

Date of Graduation

Spring 1998

Degree

Master of Arts in English

Department

English

Committee Chair

Phyllis Bixler

Abstract

This thesis is a creative, original young adult novel about four teenage girls who spend a summer at an all-girl's camp. Janelle and Hayley are thrilled to be at camp; Cassie and Lauren are not. Through a series of challenges, the four girls learn about trust, friendship, and self-identity. This novel has an experimental form with no third person narrator. Instead the story is told through a series of letters, journal entries, transcripts of conversations, memos, and other documents found at camp. This multiple point of view approach helps to build the characters and give a sense of the texture of life at camp.

Subject Categories

English Language and Literature

Copyright

© Shelby Lynn Rosiak

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