Monday, October 27, 2014

Darkness to visible


 The Article called "Darkness to visible" By Megan Cox Gurdon. In this article it talks about how young adult literature can be dark for teens. On page 1 paragraph 3 it talks about "How dark is contemporary fiction for teens? This means that teens are reading about kidnapping and pederasty, incest and brutal beatings. It also says that just part of the run of things in novels are directed, broadly speaking. That children from ages of 12-18 are reading these violent books that are still not for them.

The Author addresses that “Entertainment does not merely graffiti taste, after all, but it creates it. MCG supports her opinion that if you think it matters what’s inside a young person’s mind, surely it; is of consequences what he reads. Also this is old dialectic- purity vs. despoliation virtue vs. smut- but for families with teenagers, it is also everlasting new.

I agree with MCG because teens look for a book or video games and then they get it into their brains and then they act it just like in the movies and they put everybody in danger and get into more trouble. 

Friday, October 24, 2014

The Best Book Ever

Killing, Drinking, smoking and secrets is not the option of getting rid of troubles, talking to your best friends can show an option.
                                                    
The book Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver is about teens having problems with friends and parents. In the book it describes that characters overflow with their lives (which means they don't care about their lives and what they do.) Also it talks about the way they change and the way they all come back together as family, friends like it used to be. Trusting your best friends is a way to make feel better instead keeping it to yourself.

In the book Before I Fall, I think Lauren Oliver it's trying to teach us that teens always have problems because whenever there at school they always find problems. When you're in a place and you say something not very nice it could cause you consequences, because that other person may do something bad to you and you may end up in a hospital. But also when something happens to you or someone did something to you and you decide to keep it to yourself its gonna destroy you from the inside and from the outside, also your best friends can help you with your problem because they know how to make you feel better. Also the person that knows you better than anyone else could have brought you joy too your life, sometimes you need to learn that not in life is about you only, its also about other people that surrounds you too.

In the book Before I Fall I ,think Lauren Oliver it's trying to teach us that teens have problems with everybody like relationships like dating because when you're dating and friends get between dating sometimes the person have to decide in which to choose is either your friends or your relationship and that's hard to choose. When you're dating sometimes you don't realize that your friends are waiting for you, but you're paying more attention to your relationship than your friends that helped you when you needed it. This causes consequences because for the actions that you make towards your friends, also you might need someone to help you when you need it and it's always by your side. You might feel guilty, ashamed, lonely, ignored, and depressed, that you left your friends alone and sad when they needed you the most help.


In conclusion Lauren Oliver wrote this book to show that teens always have problems because whenever there at school they always find problems. Every single day kids come in to school and they bump into people and they say “excuse me” but the other kids say no your not excuse and they argue with you and then your friends stand up to them and defend you like no other friend would do that to you.