YA Lit

The article Darkness Too Visible by Meghan Cox Gurdon is about how YA novels or teen books are about violence. Gurdon's articles talks about, how YA books are affecting teens, teens reading books kidnapping, brutal beating, and more evil stuff is making their minds evil and such explicit YA novels traumatize a teen. Gurdon proves her point by giving a summary of the worst parts of books.


The article Why the best Kids Books Are Written in Blood by Sherman Alexie is about how a teen should pick any kind of book he/she wants to read. In the article, alexie strongly disapproves with gurdon's view on the on YA novels. Alexie says that novels that are about brutal beating, sexual or physical abuse, or evil doesn't traumatize a teen or make him/her evil, but such novels can save them. Sherman points out that "evil" novels help teens fight "evil" in their life.

I don't read novels or books very often, i reading alot of manga. Manga are graphic novels, but they are exactly like books, they are full violence, rape, alot of cursing, and some are even full of sexual content. Like sherman alexie says in his article that it's okay to read any book a teen wants to read, i have the same reason for reading mangas, and I enjoy reading mangas. Yes, the kinds of mangas I read are full of violence, and evilness, but they all have good content, the reason why the main characters are so violent is because if they don't fight then they will lose their loved ones.

Sherman alexie's point of view about is true. dark themed books help and encourage teens to fight and diminish evil in their life. Personally speaking, reading mangas that are dark themed has prepared and encourage me not to fear anything in life, and face any situation without any fear, face them with a strong will, determination, and with a strong heart.