Writing Homework Help

New Kid & Empowerment (4 pages)

Explore how Jerry Craft’s New Kid attempts to engage young readers in complex and sometimes challenging topics like personal identity, racism, and stereotyping.  Is it effective?  How might a books like New Kid help empower young readers to be themselves in spite of the outside expectations and assumptions of others?

In composing your paper, you’ll need to include the following:

• Evidence from New Kid (specific scenes, panels, lines of dialogue, etc.)

For evidence please find evidence regarding personal identity, racism in 2021, and stereotypes in 2021 and compare them to how Jerry Craft interprets this in the comic book “New Kid”