A trend that is abundant in adolescent literature is one of the outsider. I would like to focus my research on finding out why this theme is present in most, if not all, adolescent literature books. Do all adolescents feel that they are the outsider? That no one can relate? Not only would I like to look into why this theme is present, but also what does the presence of an outsider do to effect the young people reading the book and how does it effect the characters within the book itself. How do they react to this outsider? How is the outsider meant to be perceived by the audience? The character of the outsider is especially noticeable in multicultural literature because a major part of multiculturalism is how they are perceived in white American or European culture and how this perception makes them feel. The theme is also abundant in literature written by WASP's. It has been present in every book that we have read for this class. I believe this is a true issue for many societies because they have to compete with the trend of Westernization that tells them they are not as good as our society and they have to fight to retain their own beliefs and cultures. Maybe this issue is not as blatant and harsh as poverty or slavery, but I believe it is fundamentally just as important because it is essentially the gradual, and at times willing, demise of a culture. What could be more cruel than that? So the theme of the outsider in adolescent literature is what I would like to write my research paper on.