“Dark” literature for young adults is not a problem, teens can pick their own books and if they don’t like it they could just leave it alone. The real issue here is that there are people who agree with Meghan Cox like the article that Ru Freeman wrote, “I’m With Meghan Cox Gurdon.” Just the fact that she thinks that books for young adults should be banned is annoying. When she was young, she probably wanted to do things she liked without being told what to do, and if not, there were other people. So when young adults want to read a book about vampires or zombies, then nobody should stop them, because they are not little kids and start acting like the people in the book, and they won’t start crying, and they won’t start to get scared of the dark. If they don’t like the book they will know what to do. …show more content…
I pick to not go to the horror section in the book store. In the article that Meghan Cox Gurdon wrote, “Darkness Too Visible,” she said “ It was all vampires and suicide and self-mutilation, this dark, dark stuff.” She probably was in the horror section of the store and it’s not a really big section. She made a big deal about how kids read horror stories, but if the store was organized differently or she actually went to a different genre and knew where she was going then this article probably wouldn’t