Darkness too visible

Mia Tindel

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Darkness Too Visible By Meghan Cox Gurdon

                          

Darkness too Visible written by Meghan Cox Gurdon talks about what she thinks on young adult literature. She believes that young adult literature is innappropriate and should be banned for teens.

Meghan Cox Gurdon used cursed words and mentioned drugged and unimaginable gore and cruelty that most young adult literature is. She explained her opinion by what young adult literature includes that deal with teen issues.

          The article is definitely argumentative and I do not agree because what are teens going to do without these books and how are they going to relate to books that include struggles, hardships, drugs, depression, and smoking.Teens should be aware of these topics that real teens go through and teens could learn a lesson from these books. Meghan Cox Gurdon writes that young adult literature is dark and violent and inappropriate for teens to read. I learned that some young adult books seem to be inappropriate to young adult parents and become dark and they might take the book and talk to their child's school principal and district and talk about the book being banned and that only makes the situation worse because the kids who haven’t read the book have a stronger urge to read the book than they did before it was banded and might try to find access to the book . A part that struck a chord with me in a way was the review on books “Books With Scars” there was a quote that said ‘’We like to have the adult perspective, but we try to target the teens because that’s who’s reading it’’.The reason this sticks out to me is because teens should have a choice on what they read and what they want to learn from young adult literature book based on reality.