'The Case For Good Taste In Children's Books'

Children books are known to have their own moral and crazy characters. These morals are taught in ways that are relevant to a child’s mind set and thought process. As these children grow up they develop into young adults and as they continue to grow up their minds begin to understand the reality of the real world. This growing grasp of reality by young adults is often progressed through reading books that are meant for their age group. These books are in constant conflict with if they are teaching young adults about the world or if they focus simply on emotions that teenagers generally face. In a speech given by Meghan Cox called “The Case for Good Taste in Children’s Books” she talks about this problem. In her speech she uses ethos, bathos, and logos to prove her credibility, create emotion and logically appeal to a person’s thoughts. …show more content…
In the beginning of her speech she claims that writers of young adult literature focus more on validating the “spasm” that teenagers face rather than opening the book world to a more open experience. She uses ethos to try and give herself credibility in her speech. She says that a young adult writer charged that she “was giving comfort to book banners” and that her arguments “encourage a culture of fear around YA literature.” She replies to this saying that she in fact does not want these things to happen but she wishes “people in the book business would exercise better taste…that our culture was not marching toward ever-greater explicitness in depictions of sex and violence.” By her thoroughly expressing her ideas she successfully uses ethos to prove her credibility to her