![]() ![]() ![]() So I love these stories and I had also written one in Divergent. I was making a list the other day and realized just how many I was exposed to when I was young-mostly young men chosen one stories like Dune and Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. Like, how do I take responsibility for myself when I’ve been dealt a crappy hand by the world? How can I set aside my pain and learn how to be responsible and a contributor to the world? Those aren’t YA concerns to me.Ĭhosen Ones subverts the popular sci-fi/fantasy trope of the “chosen one.” Where did this idea of exploring what happens to these heroes after they save the world come from? And it’s the same thing for these characters except exaggerated. You work your entire adolescence to either get a job or go to college and once you’re there it’s like, now what? That feels like a fundamentally adult question. I think that’s something we all experience. Chosen Ones is about navigating the world as an adult, about having achieved the thing that you’ve been working towards. ![]() But thematically, YA stories are about coming of age and adult stories are not. I’m always trying to write the best story I can with the most complex characters I can. My approach to the book creatively was the same. Roth: To me, the departure was on a thematic level. ![]()
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