Perspectives

Here, we will help you put the short story “Renaude” by Charlotte Bondy into perspective by connecting it to current issues, literary period, and literary works with the same theme.

Current issues

As the short story is written and published in 2015, it provides an analysis of the way teenagers grow and develop in modern times. Through the examples of Clara, Mischa, and Renaude, the reader discovers the ways in which teenagers behave nowadays and try to adapt to the world around them.

For many teenagers nowadays, adapting and growing up also includes doing drugs and alcohol, bending rules and, in general, testing their limits. Note that the short story does not frown upon such things; on the contrary, it presents them as a normal part of being a teenager in today’s world, and it pleads for acceptance and unde...