Isaac King 803
MCG
In the article “Darkness Too Visible” by Megan Cox Gurdon, MCG wants the reader to know how drastically dark and disturbing young adult literature has become. This is important for parents understand as it may be worthy of strong consideration into what books teens can and can’t read. It shows that these books may negatively affect teens. It also gives points from the other side of the argument that it may actually positively affect teens. It offers many strong ideas as to why these books are too dark.
The author wants the reader to feel as though these books are overly sullen. She really portrays this by using the word “dark” three times in one paragraph. This really shows how absolutely serious she is. Almost as serious as the books themselves. MCG really sobers the reader up by using powerful vocabulary.
I personally strongly disagree with her. I feel that teens should get to choose what they want to read and are ready to. Nobody knows what a free thinking individual is ready for except them as no one can read minds. The idea that teenagers cannot pick books for themselves is ridiculous. There is a paradigm set up that kids from age 13-18 can handle enormous amounts of stress yet still can’t decide what they can and can’t read and frankly that is crazy. The idea of censoring books for teens is obscenely awful and repulses me.
