Argument Essay

    Teen fiction books are darker SO... We should the right to read whatever book we want even if it's too dark, fantasy,non-fiction, etc... Why are adults banning our lovely books that we enjoy reading? It's not like we're going to do the same thing the character does in the book. We won't just read a dark hunting book and then go slice our bellies noooo. How would we know what's going on in the world? In order for us to know what's going on in the world, there's these wonderful books that are supposedly giving us"cruel" examples of life.Adults do not understand.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon gives an example of he book "Rage" by Jackie Morse," she had slice her arms to ribbons, but the badness remained, stunning her insides like cancer, she had gouge her belly until it was a mess of meat and blood, but she still couldn't breathe." Really? Gurdon gives an extremely stomach-clenching (as she would say to the reader). She only wants the reader to have a harsh idea of YA books Gurdon , even admits that, "reading about a homocide doesn't  turn a man into a murder, reading about cheating on exams won't make a kid break the honor code." This briefly means that a young adult wouldn't slice his arms or gouge his belly. Just by reading this book.
     To add on, even librarians and booksellers agree that YA books are dark, however they have values in which gives a brief examples of what's going on their lives. Why the best books are written in blood by Sherman Alexie, states," I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers." This explains why Alexie writes in blood because he cares about teens that are dealing with harsh situations, and since he went through the same thing when he was a teen he wants to teach the reader something that would help him face his problem. But not only face his problems by suiciding or cutting himself. He writes in blood give ideas that will help them fight the monster.
  Overall banning books would not help the situation, because we love our books and we don't want adults taking them away. It's not fair and it's also not fair for teens who are actually dealing with a problem and not to have something to help him/her because him/her will not have a book to read about their problems because adults are banning the books. Adults banning our books should think about it. We also enjoy reading our dark books even if we are not dealing with it because we want to learn what oh her teens are dealing with at this time. We have the freedom to read whatever we want even if it's cruel and gives the reader a harsh example.