Debate on topic - "Fiction is unhealthy for teens"
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Answer:
i think fiction is helpful because it helps our imagination to increase an gives us new ideas and innovation
Explanation:
Yes, teen fiction can be dark – but it shows teenagers they aren't alone
If books show us the world, teen fiction can be like a hall of fun-house mirrors, constantly reflecting back hideously distorted portrayals of what life is." So claims Meghan Cox Gurdon in the Wall Street Journal this week. YA, or young adult literature, is a flourishing area in the United States and, increasingly, around the world. And the claims made in the article are not new to those of us in the teen fiction world. The argument appears to be:
1. YA literature is becoming too dark.
2. Darkness in YA literature is inappropriate, and denotes a slipping of moral standards
The unsubstantiated point number one is used to argue the specious point two – namely, that talking about bad things normalises or even encourages them. The evidence offered for the first point is a walk through a bookstore with a confused parent. As for the second, the idea that "darkness" doesn't belong in stories makes me wonder if the author of this article has ever read any Poe, Dickens, Shakespeare, Hemingway, Tolstoy or … almost any other author, ever. Or the Bible, for that matter. Or the news. For non-dark, age-appropriate reading, she chooses Fahrenheit 451, a lighthearted romp that features suicide, teenagers who run cars into people, mechanical hounds that hunt living creatures for blood sport and nuclear war. It's a fantastic book, but its inclusion implies that the author of the article has a slippery definition of the term "dark". The fact that she breaks this list into books for girls and books for boys is another subject entirely.
Well, yes. People who create YA books do tend to object when one person tries to make decisions for all, based on their individual taste and standards. We are thinking of the children. That's why we fight back. "No family is obliged to acquiesce when publishers use the vehicle of fundamental free-expression principles to try to bulldoze coarseness or misery into their children's lives," she writes. Perhaps we have a different understanding of the word "bulldoze". In Cox Gurdon's case, it seems to mean "the existence of things I don't like or understand".