The UTC Graduate School is pleased to announce that Madison Silva will present Master’s research titled, Something Holy on 03/10/2023 at 10:00 AM in Lupton 372. Everyone is invited to attend.
English
Chair: Sybil Baker
Co-Chair:
Abstract:
This thesis contains two parts: a craft paper on interiority and five chapters of a young adult, social realism novel. The craft paper explores different strategies for “showing and telling” as a means of conveying interiority in faith-based characters, and it analyzes these strategies in two YA novels, Let’s Call it Doomsday by Katie Henry and Autoboyography by Christina Lauren, both of which center around queer, Mormon characters. The novel chapters in the thesis are from Something Holy, which follows Beck Taylor, an eighteen-year-old, mostly-closeted bisexual boy who only has a few months until he leaves on a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Determined to make the most of his time left, he and his cousin Emilia follow Evergreen, their favorite local band, on tour, but when Beck falls for male drummer Julius, feelings and faith complicate his perfect summer.