A jornada da heroína na literatura infanto-juvenil contemporânea: Uma análise do livro Cidade dos Ossos de Cassandra Clare

Abstract

Literature for children and adolescents is said to be those stories of a fictional nature, mostly, and which mostly talk about the conquest of heroes. The heroine's journey describes her experience with external and internal conflicts, in this sense she has the purpose of selfknowledge. Thus, our work aimed to analyze the heroine's journey, described by the author Maureen Murdock, in the bestseller novel City of bones (2007), by Cassandra Clare. This research, through literary review, sought to encompass the journey of the heroine and other aspects of children's literature in the analysis of the aforementioned narrative as a way of highlighting the female protagonism of the character Clary Fray who escapes the rule of the stereotypes of the eternal female.