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 woman’s self? identity.Julie is a perfect girl with character of brave，independent，self esteem and self respect.This thesis interprets Julie’s 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 Julie’s Image as “the One” in Flipped
　　Outline
　　Thesis Statement：The paper analyze Julie’s image as “the One” through the theory of “feminism” and aims at enlightening the woman’s on self identity.
　　Introduction
　　II.Julie’s Perfection in Flipped
　　III.The Reasons for Julie’s Image as “the One”
　　IV.Conclusion
　　Interpretation of Julie’s 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 woman’s self? identity.
　　This paper takes the heroine Julie as the research object to analyze her perfection and reason of Julie’s 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 Julie’s perfection in her characteristics of personalities.Part three explains ??the reason from family value，for Julie’s image as “the one”.The last part concludes that Julie’s 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.Julie’s 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 Bryce’s granddad noticed the big news，he really appreciated Julie’s braveness.He thought Julie was a very special girl.Unluckily，the sycamore tree was cut down.Julie was so depressed.Julie’s farther knew the sycamore tree has different meaning to his daughter.Therefore he painted a sycamore tree for Julie.