What 's Wrong With Fifty Shades?

Some might claim the YA genre has grown to be too dark for its target audience. Meghan Gurdon, a firm believer of this idea, explains why she believes this in her article, “Darkness Too Visible”. Gurdon describes the experience of a mother of three in a bookstore looking to purchase a YA novel for one of her children, when she found herself leaving the bookstore empty-handed due to the content of the teen books. While teen books decades ago contained less violent/corrupted material, times have changed along with the genre. She is concerned that these books could have an effect on these young readers’ brains as they are merely transferring from childhood to adulthood. Gurdon still has faith that YA books would sell just as well and connect with young readers today without all of the dark subject matters discussed in them these days.

This novel “is a book that truly speaks to adolescents in contemporary language and with teenage characters about adolescent sexuality” (Kaplan 27). Katherine is learning about her sexuality in the novel.

Fahrenheit 451 was published in 1953 by Ray Bradbury in the US. His book is set in a dystopian society where books are illegal and and thinking is restricted. Instead of firemen putting out fires, they start them.. Bradbury’s famous book has been mainly challenged by middle schools and high schools. While Fahrenheit 451 maybe the most controversial novel in the 20th century, it holds the award as being one of the most notable banned books in history. No other book has been written like this so mysterious and real. The idea of how books are banned doesn’t really matter to most people. While Fahrenheit 451 might include some vulgar language and profanity, it shares ideas that can help young people.

Like Water for Chocolate is Laura Esquivel’s original romantic love story and is often dubs as the Mexican Romeo and Juliet. In just 246 pages, Esquivel creates a breathtaking work of art, strategically incorporating love, desire, nurture, and feminism. This novel is famously known for its magical realism, a device Esquivel uses in order to justify the perception of the novel and to make extraordinary concepts seem normal. In other words, it is the glue that holds the book together. The novel’s magical realism, helps define lust by incorporating the element of fire. By adding magical elements into the day-to-day life, readers can critically analyze the characters and thus understand their thoughts and actions.

Dark themes are on the rise in young adult literature, and parents can’t help but wonder if this is due to the abundance of these subjects in adult literature. Literary critic Meghan Cox Gurdon’s editorial “Darkness Too Visible” and author Sherman Alexie’s response “Why the Best Kids Books are Written in Blood” have contrasting views on this subject. However, with the superior techniques Alexie Sherman is more effective. Both authors use themes and style in their writing, but with his superior use of persuasive techniques Alexie Sherman’s article is ultimately more effective.

TS: In the novel, there is a strong correlation between men romanticizing their woman, and men using and taking advantage of their women. This is shown through various factors.

To start of, Prostitution in the novel is not much mention very often but bearly uses the word “tart” and describes her mostly of a lonely woman than a prostitute instead. There’s also the use of bad words but is not to be alarmed since it's written and not directed to very important but then we forget they’re there. Violence is a bit horrific but not to the point it gets

When we think of romance novels, one's first thought might be of the kind we see at the newsstand while waiting to check out at the grocery store. Visions of a white knight like Fabio whisking away the fair damsel in distress. Romance novels for the young adult are appealing because many romantic symbols relate directly to what they're experiencing both physically and emotionally in their lives; that of youthfulness and hope.

“For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.” With diligent care and effective techniques, Laura Esquivel expresses this belief about love in her novel Like Water For Chocolate. Rather than bluntly giving her audience a direct assertion on the topic of romance, Esquivel spends a great deal of time using the strategy of symbolism. The reader can distinguish thematic developments and vital representations hidden in various images throughout the plot. Symbolism allows an audience to each have a distinctive experience reading a novel. Understanding this concept, Esquivel successfully uses thermal sensations and the color white to indicate the subject of intimacy in her writing. She utilizes the images of heat and white hues

For years literature has been probed and prodded by students, teachers, scholars, and those just looking to pass the time. What all these readers can agree on is that any single work can be interpreted in a myriad of ways. Readers can derive interpretations on completely opposite sides of the spectrum, which can even go so far as to spark conflict or debate; thus, supporting Lemony Snicket’s argument that, the most “passionate and interesting pieces” of writing “divide” people in their opinions. Sometimes it is the writer’s intent to introduce a controversial issue to get people to question and argue, and other times the author merely presents a more relaxed or simplistic idea still knowing that readers can branch off of it in many different

Harlequin Enterprises has dominated the series romance fiction novel market since the 1970’s. Harlequin has fought off every major competitor in this genre and maintained consistent performance for multiple decades. Brand loyalty, worldwide production capabilities, production efficiencies, creative control, and distribution are the strengths that Harlequin utilizes to dominate the series romance genre.

In this article the Twilight: The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege by Danielle N. Borgia discusses about how the Twilight series had hidden negative points. It appeared in the journal “The journal of popular culture”. The overall journal article tears apart the Twilight series piece by piece, showing the underlying negative messages. There is also a big portion of this article that discusses about the main female character, which is Bella, how she puts up with abuse and becomes dependent towards Edward who is main male character. The article is divided into sections to focus on the main three points, which are abuse, codependency and white privilege.

In this review, Sturken discusses Michigan in the context of presenting romance as a “sadomasochistic exchange, part of a larger psycho/social dialectic of power within which the protagonists are unwittingly trapped.” While powerfully received in this review, the shocking content in Michigan was, unsurprisingly, not always met with this

The hot seller Fifty Shades of Grey is a descriptive novel of a man fulfilling his dirty fantasy. It starts off clean talking about a man meeting a women, Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, then leads to talking over coffee, and advancing to a friends with benefits. The friends with benefits is more than just hooking up with another, it becomes a submissive and dominant relationship. Christian is the dominant and exercises his sexual fantasies on Anastasia Steele who is the submissive. Throughout the novel there are correlations to the ideas and discussions in the Sociology – Gender, Power, and Society class. There are many different ways that this connection takes place, such as through the dialogue, the way things are described and

As the era of literature slowly declines, the expert critiques and praise for literature are lost. Previously, novels were bursting at the seams with metaphors, symbolism, and themes. In current times, “novels” are simply short stories that have been elaborated on with basic plot elements that attempt to make the story more interesting. Instead of having expert critical analysis written about them, they will, most likely, never see that, as recent novels have nothing to analyze. Even books are beginning to collect dust, hidden away and forgotten, attributing to the rise of companies such as Spark Notes. An author deserves to have his work praised, no matter how meager and the masses should have the right to embrace it or to reject it. As