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Blue Sargent In The Raven Boys
The reason why I chose to give Blue Sargent, from The Raven Boys, the “feminist” award is because there isn’t a moment in the book where Blue chooses to believe that one gender is superior to another, and if someone else thinks that, she’ll always correct them. Blue hangs out with a group of four other boys throughout their adventures and you can see straight off the bat from when they first met that Blue doesn't find herself inferior to them in any way. When Gansey asks Blue to go over and talk to his friend, Adam, and she refuses, he offers to pay her for it. Of course, Blue doesn’t take it. She instead moves on to teach him a lesson, saying, “You think you can just pay me to talk to your friend? Clearly you pay most of your female companions

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