The earliest writing that we know of today dates back to 5,000 B.C. by the Mesopotamians. Since then, writing have developed from a way to communicate and teach people to telling intricate, heart wrenching stories that have people turning the pages of their books for hours on end, but Ruth Graham's article “Against YA,” in which she argues against young adult novels, is different. Ruth claims that reading is taking a dark turn, for the worst, the rise of young adult novels among adults is her main issue. I believe that Ruth Graham thinks too little of young adult novels as a whole genre and she should re-think her whole argument. She never gives us a true definition of “serious literature”. Also, she is always contradicting herself when stating
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Everyone has a different opinion, and everyone has a right to share it, it is just that her opinion is completely wrong. You can look at it from many different perspectives, people (like myself) like to get a correct definition and for that we go to the dictionary, the dictionary definition of literature “ is writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays” (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/literature). Honestly, this just means it is WRITING, no matter how bad the writing is. It is still literature. Notice how the definition does not specify what genre the literature has to be. Who cares if the plot points of young adult books are simple? Why does it matter if young adult books are uniformly satisfying. There is a reason they are popular, and finally, why should anyone care if you read any book? I could read Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and no one would care. What is going to happen if I do decide to pick of the literary book Green Eggs and Ham? Am I going to die? Ruth also implies that the 55% of adults over the age of 18 ONLY read young adult novels. I would argue that most of those adults that buys the young adult novels also buy other books that are written for their
Everyone has a different opinion, and everyone has a right to share it, it is just that her opinion is completely wrong. You can look at it from many different perspectives, people (like myself) like to get a correct definition and for that we go to the dictionary, the dictionary definition of literature “ is writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays” (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/literature). Honestly, this just means it is WRITING, no matter how bad the writing is. It is still literature. Notice how the definition does not specify what genre the literature has to be. Who cares if the plot points of young adult books are simple? Why does it matter if young adult books are uniformly satisfying. There is a reason they are popular, and finally, why should anyone care if you read any book? I could read Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and no one would care. What is going to happen if I do decide to pick of the literary book Green Eggs and Ham? Am I going to die? Ruth also implies that the 55% of adults over the age of 18 ONLY read young adult novels. I would argue that most of those adults that buys the young adult novels also buy other books that are written for their