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Abstract
The objective of the thesis is to examine the narrative treatment of the theme of alienation in two contemporary novels: Victor Martinez’s Parrot in the Oven and Ramona Lofton’s Push. The major critical approach to the issue of alienation will be the ideas of Seeman and other psychologists in the second half of the twentieth century. There is more focus on Seeman’s theory because it is more applicable to alienation in contemporary literature. The two novels under study deal with alienation among Chicanos and African American young adults. Firstly, the purpose of this content analysis is to review the gap between family members. Secondly, this study focuses on various kinds of abuse, including sexual abuse, self-harm, physical abuse, emotional abuse and verbal abuse as manifested in the two novels. Both novels present abuse with similar perspectives in spite of the variation in races for the protagonists in every novel. Every kind of abuse has its reasons, but all types have destructive effects that affect family and society. There are many reasons that push adolescents to commit their crimes like depression, stress, racism, alcoholism, drinking and traumatic events that push the abuser to give away his sense of belonging and hurt the victim.