Week 7: Spiritual Fantasy

Spiritual fantasy novels and movies tend to be geared towards young people and as such derive from many experience teens tend to go through. The anxieties of being young is addressed and these books tend to guide young people through this uncomfortable stage that everyone must go through. Being different and not belonging serves as an example, most teens are trying to figure out who they are and where their interests and ideas stand. More often than not, these interests are not in line with older generations so these books tend to lend comfort and reassurance that this isn’t bad necessarily. That this flow of new and different ideas is what makes a character unique and it is in fact a positive characteristic.