Talk:Fearless (novel series)

Novels Low‑importance

	Novels portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Novels, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and contribute to the general Project discussion to talk over new ideas and suggestions.NovelsWikipedia:WikiProject NovelsTemplate:WikiProject Novelsnovel articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Children's literature Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Children's literature, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Children's literature on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Children's literatureWikipedia:WikiProject Children's literatureTemplate:WikiProject Children's literaturechildren and young adult literature articles

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Tasks you can do:

Here are some open tasks for WikiProject Children's literature, an attempt to create and standardize articles related to children's literature. Feel free to help with any of the following tasks.

Add {{Portal|Children's literature}} to the See also section of related articles.
Tag the talk pages of related articles with {{WikiProject Children's literature}}
Join WikiProject Children's literature and list yourself as a Participant in the project.
Cleanup: A cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category, the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Deletion discussions: listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Literature
Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability
Rate the Unassessed articles in the Children's literature WikiProject.
References: Add references to Unreferenced BLPs.
Requested articles: Create a requested article on literature
Stubs: Improve a stub-class article

edit

Since when was fear a gene in itself? I know that certain fears are genetically passed down, but I'm positive that fear itself is not a gene that can inherited or not. It's something that EVERYONE is born with, and if they're not they qualify as a mutant. Isn't it awfully odd that she would even survive to that age when she wasn't scared of anything, which would include punishment. We don't learn what not to do without pain, but if she wasn't scared of the pain in her determination to accomplish a task, it's pretty likely that the discomfort she experienced would be enough to deter her from severely hurting herself.

The tagline to the series talks about a "fear gene" but I'm fairly sure there was an alternate explanation given about halfway through the series. The main character, knowing it's not genetic still uses the same phrasing because it's convenient. Lack of fear being inherently dangerous is one of the themes of the book. The main character gets in over her head repeatedly as the result of the lack of fear. Lastly, the series doesn't so much surgically remove fear from her emotions as that her emotions (except for anger) tend to be severely muted with fear being something she doesn't feel strongly at all. (At a few points in the series, she acquires the symptoms or effects of fear in very dire situations, but generally not very strongly. -Fuzzy 22:54, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've only read a couple of these books, but it seems to me from what I did read, she does feel fear, just not personal fear. She fears for those she loves, but never for her own safety.Carloak (talk) 13:45, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Spoilers

The current spoiler guideline is to not warn about spoilers. I've removed the spoiler warning from this article. --Tony Sidaway 09:06, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]