I’m doing whatever investigate for a person of mine, and I would same to undergo your opinions. What are the personalty of falsity books on teens? You crapper take the genre. And in housing you undergo a kindred aggregation or research, could you gratify allow the website or aggregation and the author? Thank you.
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Tags: Fiction Books, Genre, Reference, Teens
Hi,
Here are a few texts that might help you:
James Wood, “How fiction works” (2008)
Sharon R. Mazzarella and Norma Odom Pecora (eds): Growing up girls : popular culture and the construction of identity (1999)
Gale W. Sherman, Bette D. Ammon: Rip-roaring reads for reluctant teen readers (1993)
Hope these help you on your way!
Cheers
S
Edit: My opinion. Well. I believe that reading is important. It teaches you stuff, and helps form the character.
BUT (and mind you, this is one capital BUT): Teens are impressionable. Most have neither the knowledge nor the capacities to question everything they read. They blindly believe that because a book has a character they like *coughEdwardCullencough* it is the finest jewel of contemporary literature.
Also, teens usually don’t want to read anything that might smell vaguely of school, i.e. that includes long words. I read Goethe when I was thirteen, had finished most of Shakespeare at sixteen, and have begun teaching literature when I was seventeen. It is not impossible, and it is fun. The effect on me was that the more proper stuff I read, the more I wanted to read.
However, I know that many of my generation had more trouble. The rejected Shakespeare, and it went straight downhill from there. To vaguely quote Ginsberg: I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by “Death of a Salesman”. It felt like work – they hated it. With forcing students to read some classic, you can actually destroy their curiosity. Pity.
This better?
Cheers
S
I’m a teen, and my opinion on the matter is all though it is great that teens are reading, sometimes it wouldn’t hurt to pick up a non-fiction book. Teens are not babies anymore and most of us know not to believe everything we read, but we can still be naive at times. Some teenage girls might believe they need to find the perfect guy that will sweep them of their feet and because that is what they read in fiction books, as well with a hundred other cliches.
A great place to start would be to research the effect that Twilight is having on these obsessed teens. Inspect all other aspects of their lives and try to find out WHY they are SO obsessed. Then give them another fiction novel to read, something you think they will enjoy and study the effects that book has on them. You could also do a similar study with the harry potter novels.
But I think it depends on the individual at to what kind of effect a book has on someone.
I am glad that you asked for opinions. It would be nice to get a grant to study the affects of reading on teens. I am afraid that most of that money went to study the affects of TV or video games on teens because they tend to be the lessor observed.
Teens have always read books and sure some more or less than others but it happens none the less. Your great grandfather must have read something as a teen because MicroSoft didn’t run the world back then. They didn’t have computers much less video games.
What were the effects on you after your parents read books as teens? I am older now but I once read wild stuff like Steven King or Ann Rice. It didn’t stop me from reading The Happiest Baby on the Block for my child and it didn’t stop me from helping her learn how to read at two years old. It must have helped me be a great story teller for my child. At best it gave way to her conception because I was a passionate man at one time.
I think that with any media type most of us surrender our imaginations and passions to them. It’s as if we process our feelings and even learn a thing or two about ourselves when we consume stories. It is only those that run away from reality that are obsessed. Then it is obvious that no matter what the media type the distortion was created from within the observers confusion.
I’m a teen. First, I would like to mention Twilight…because someone mentioned it in their answer. You know, I don’t know why I was just SO drawn to it. My friend gave me the book, and in two days it was finished. It’s like hypnotizing…it’s weird.
Anyway, back to the opinion. Teens, I think are very “moldable.” Yes, obviously we are smart, and know what’s fiction from non-fiction. But sometimes, it’s almost like something else takes over in our brains, and we are living in our imagination, and then that imagination gets intertwined with our normal, real lives, and here lies the real effects that fiction books can have on teens. We are being told a fake story, but our brains, or some part of us, want it to be real, so we try to convince ourselves it’s real, or try to obsess over it, because maybe we want what happens in that book TO become reality, and so, involuntary or not, our brains try to convince us of that, and like I said before, it starts to get intertwined with our normal day-to-day lives. If that makes sense…I really don’t know how to describe it in any other way.
~kate