This arouses some nasty reactions, and Holland begins to see prejudice and hate in her classmates.Īs Holland's feelings for Cece develop, she starts to feel that she is ' Running out of tomorrows'.
Cece is out, proud of it, and wants to start a gay club in the school. Then Cece, a new girl in school and Holland's classmate in art, appears on the scene and Holland feels as if she is ' teetering on the brink of a precipice'. Holland seems to have it all - gorgeous, an athlete, and brilliant in school, she's also the President of the Student Council and paired with another popular student leader, Seth.īut Holland feels smothered by Seth and by her controlling mother, and distanced from old friends. K eeping You a Secret is the sensitively written story (aimed at older teens) of a young woman's awakening to her sexual orientation. P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR83 English literatureġ2.Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters This study is an attempt to give the readers an awareness of the difficulties of coming out as a lesbian in heteronormative society.
The factors that are preventing Holland to come out as a lesbian cannot be separate from Holland’s negotiation of coming out because it formulates the complexity. After that the writer finds self-acknowledgement, escaping blood family, and then coming out as the negotiation of coming out process. By using close reading method, the writer of this study finds out many things such as identity confusion, lover’s trauma, and heteronormativity in school, homophobic mother become the factors that prevent Holland to come out as a lesbian. Sedgwick and Coming Out Process by Robert A.
Study tries to analyze the factors that prevent Holland to come out as a lesbian and Holland’s negotiation of coming out by using The Epistemology of the Closet theory by Eve K. Holland discovers herself as a lesbian and experience homophobic attitude addressed to her.
This study elaborates the complexity of coming out process trough the character of a high school teenager named Holland Jaeger as the main character in the novel entitled Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters.
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