Bildungsroman

An adventure bildungsroman set in a world where there is an edge and no one knows it. The chapters are a collection of snippets from several perspectives. Follow the sound of their footsteps and the trail of their weapons through a land where all history and technological progress was lost to an unknown event. Now with humanity recovering from a century of lawlessness, the only pockets of civilization left are in the midst of constant territorial wars between guilds. Note: The novel is currently ongoing on RoyalRoad as “The Sinews”.

Blue is set for the whirlwind summer romance of her dreams. The only other lesbian in Blue's small town is a girl named Josie who is spending the summer with her dad, and they hit it off immediately. But when Josie's brother, Matt, comes out as bisexual to his dad and things go awry, Matt runs away to Chicago to live with his online boyfriend who turns out to be a catfish. Left alone in a big city with nowhere to go, Matt asks Josie to come pick him up. Now, it's up to Josie, Blue, and their friends to save Matt with a cross-country roadtrip meant for a bildungsroman indie film.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 and was instantly successful. In the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. To Kill a Mockingbird has become a classic of modern American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was ten. To Kill a Mockingbird Despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality, the novel is renowned for its warmth and humor. Atticus Finch, the narrator's father, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. The historian Joseph Crespino explains, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its main character, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism."[1] As a Southern Gothic and Bildungsroman novel, the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. Scholars have noted that Lee also addresses issues of class, courage, compassion, and gender roles in the Deep South. The book is widely taught in schools in the United States with lessons that emphasize tolerance and decry prejudice.[2] Despite its themes, To Kill a Mockingbird has been subject to campaigns for removal from public classrooms, often challenged for its use of racial epithets. In 2006, British librarians ranked the book ahead of the Bible as one "every adult should read before they die".[3] Reaction to the novel varied widely upon publication. Despite the number of copies sold and its widespread use in education, literary analysis of it is sparse. Author Mary McDonough Murphy, who collected individual impressions of To Kill a Mockingbird by several authors and public figures, calls the book "an astonishing phenomenon".[4] It was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 1962 by director Robert Mulligan, with a screenplay by Horton Foote. Since 1990, a play based on the novel has been performed annually in Harper Lee's hometown. To Kill a Mockingbird was Lee's only published book until Go Set a Watchman, an earlier draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, was published on July 14, 2015. Lee continued to respond to her work's impact until her death in February 2016, although she had refused any personal publicity for herself or the novel since 1964.