To start, Many teenagers enjoy being able to relate to the characters they read about, so when a teenager is facing a problem in their own life, it is beneficial to them to be able to see their favorite characters face the same problems. Some teens enjoy being able to find those answers in books, Patricia McCormick, young adult author of books such as Never Fall Down and Cut, agrees that teens enjoy problem-solving and states “Part of the reason they want to read books about homophobia or trafficking or alcoholism or teen pregnancy or whatever…is because they are curious about finding solutions.”(Is Current). Teenagers face many problems so we are looking for ways that will make us able to solve them. Many of us enjoy being able to solve those
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Teenagers need to be able to read books that face doleful problems because those are the same problems that we are facing ourselves. Reading these books help us learn how to face our future problems because they teach us the intellectual things that we need to know in order to solve our own problems. Finally, as dark as some of the problems in books seem they are actually very realistic to the problems that some teenagers face. The things that most adults would say are dark are the problems that a teen could be facing, so Katie Roiphe, an assistant professor at New York University in New York, writes “While the dramatic scenarios in some of the books may seem "uncommon and overwrought," Roiphe notes, "it seems that the extreme and unsettling situations chronicled in these books are, for many teenagers, accurate and realistic depictions of their inner lives."(Is Current). The dark problems books talk about are the same ones that adults say are dark and dangerous for teens to see, but teens are the ones that are facing these very real issues. Books realism to many adults in portrayed as dark. As well as helping teens face their own problems, they also help make teens more aware of the problems that are in the
Teenagers need to be able to read books that face doleful problems because those are the same problems that we are facing ourselves. Reading these books help us learn how to face our future problems because they teach us the intellectual things that we need to know in order to solve our own problems. Finally, as dark as some of the problems in books seem they are actually very realistic to the problems that some teenagers face. The things that most adults would say are dark are the problems that a teen could be facing, so Katie Roiphe, an assistant professor at New York University in New York, writes “While the dramatic scenarios in some of the books may seem "uncommon and overwrought," Roiphe notes, "it seems that the extreme and unsettling situations chronicled in these books are, for many teenagers, accurate and realistic depictions of their inner lives."(Is Current). The dark problems books talk about are the same ones that adults say are dark and dangerous for teens to see, but teens are the ones that are facing these very real issues. Books realism to many adults in portrayed as dark. As well as helping teens face their own problems, they also help make teens more aware of the problems that are in the