Interpretation of Julie’s Image as“the One”in Flipped

Abstract：Flipped is one of the masterpieces of Wendelin Van Draanen，the famous America children literature writer.The novel is about a funny school story of teenager boys and girls flipped each other as well as mutual resistance.In this novel，the heroine Julie showed the awareness of womans self? identity.Julie is a perfect girl with character of brave，independent，self esteem and self respect.This thesis interprets Julies image as “the one” under the theory of “feminism”.Feminism refers to the female seeking for their specific social and cultural identity as the dominator in their life.This paper aims at enlightening woman from all over the world to chase their self identity and equality as the man.

Key words：Julie；Flipped；feminism；“the One”

Interpretation of Julies Image as “the One” in Flipped

Outline

Thesis Statement：The paper analyze Julies image as “the One” through the theory of “feminism” and aims at enlightening the womans on self identity.

Introduction

II.Julies Perfection in Flipped

III.The Reasons for Julies Image as “the One”

IV.Conclusion

Interpretation of Julies Image as“the One”in Flipped

Ⅰ.Introduction

Flipped is one of the masterpieces of Wendelin Van Draanen，the famous America children literature writer.The novel is about a funny school story of teenager boys and girls flipped each other as well as mutual resistance.In this story，the heroine Julie showed the awareness of womans self? identity.

This paper takes the heroine Julie as the research object to analyze her perfection and reason of Julies image as “the One” by taking the theory

of “feminism”.The thesis is composed of four parts.Part one is a general introduction to the author and social background of this novel.Part two analyzes Julies perfection in her characteristics of personalities.Part three explains ??the reason from family value，for Julies image as “the one”.The last part concludes that Julies image as “the one” is caused by her family value and social culture.This paper aims at enlightening woman from all over the world to chase their self identity and equality as the man.

II.Julies Perfection in Flipped

Julie is a brave and obstinate girl.She has an awareness of revolt.One time，Julie climbed a sycamore tree to take the kite for Bryce in community.She found the higher she climbed，the more gorgeous view she can see.At that moment，she fell in love with the place where she can see the different scene from the tree.After that time，Julie often came to climb the tree when she felt in a bad mood.However，when she heard about the owner of the tree will cut it down，she stayed up the tree for a whole day to protect her sycamore tree.The local newspaper reported her splendid deeds.When Bryces granddad noticed the big news，he really appreciated Julies braveness.He thought Julie was a very special girl.Unluckily，the sycamore tree was cut down.Julie was so depressed.Julies farther knew the sycamore tree has different meaning to his daughter.Therefore he painted a sycamore tree for Julie.

Ⅲ.The Reason for Julies Image as “the One”

Julies good traits are basically affected by her fathers character of hardworking and responsibility.In this story，Julies father is a representative of America father.His love to Julie is deep and heavy.Julies father was a painter and he didnt have a stable job.Julie had a disabled uncle called David.Her father worked so hard in order to give Uncle David a better private sanatorium.This kind of responsibility of brothers deeply impacted Julie.Fathers behaviors made Julie know that family affection was a huge wealth.She understood that people could have a chance to choose life，but people must know the things that they insist on all the time.When he saw Julies favorite sycamore tree was cut down，he drew the sycamore tree for his daughter to protect the beauty in her heart.

IV.Conclusion

This thesis interprets Julies image as “the one” under the theory of “feminism” with two main parts.The paper aims at enlightening woman from all over the world to chase their self identity value equally as the man，and it appeals to woman struggling for equality，independence and appropriate values of love.

Bibliography

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作者簡介

吳虹穎（1993.11—至今），女，漢族，四川南充，碩士研究生，研究方向：農村金融

（作者單位：西南財經大學中國西部經濟研究中心 四川成都）