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Abstract This thesis tackles the Young Adult Dystopian fiction (YA) through the lens of Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy. Roth largely shows her stance towards American teenagers who find difficulty defining themselves. She deals with some critical questions and problems they suffer from. Although she is aware of the fact that these issues are the ultimate outcome of depressing events like that of 9/11 attacks, she hopefully provides a promising vision for a future that can be better if they play a positive role in their society. For her, teenagers are the agents of change. This appears in her depiction of Divergent’s protagonist, Tris, who manages to uncover the falsity of her assumed utopian society. In Roth’s post-apocalyptic society, there is no equality as citizens are divided into genetically pure (GP) and genetically damaged (GD). Clearly, she reflects the American society which deals with individual differences as disabilities. Seeking social equality, Roth employs three models of disability healing, that is to say the medical model, the social one and the collective memory. |