I don’t think anyone gets to decide what good writing is because everyone is going to have a favorite genre or style of writing which will immediately cause a bias opinion towards a genre they don’t enjoy. I believe that many people decide on what books to read by what everyone says about that book. For example many teenagers feel the need to read Hunger Games or Harry Potter because of how popular it is for our age group and only good things are said about those books. Many teenagers will think that literary work is much less exciting than genre fiction for many reasons being many people our age, if they enjoy reading they will chose to read genre fiction which is such a different type of writing than literary work. Coming into school and being forced to read literary fiction will immediately cause a bias opinion towards that work. I think students see Literary Fiction less exiting to read during school than genre fiction because many times I find the style of writing confusing to understand and when teachers are cramming in tests and quizzes on a specific scene or chapter I end up studying the facts from the story rather than the overall theme or story the author is trying to get across. When studying facts rather than the theme or importance of the story the facts make it almost like memorizing the “important” parts of the book leading me to easily forget what happened in the story. When literary fiction is assigned you are told to read a specific amount of chapters and not to go ahead of the class but when I read genre fiction sometimes I can’t stop at a specific spot because of how exciting the book is. I believe both genres are important but I think different audiences will enjoy different genres.
I totally agree that people choose books most of the time based on what other people say (that's what I do like all the time)! Also I like how you point out that literary fiction is important, but is targeted for a different audience (I agree with that as well)!
ReplyDeleteI also find myself only studying the facts of the book and not the message or the theme the author is trying to portray. I also agree that both genres are important but only particular audiences will find different genres interesting.
ReplyDeleteI think it is interesting that you said “Coming into school and being forced to read literary fiction will immediately cause a bias opinion towards that work.” The books we read in school I usually think that they are going to be bad even before I read them just based on the fact that it is a book chosen by the school.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it can be easy to forget what happened and remember only the important parts but cant the same thing happen if you are forced to read The Hunger Games in school, and forced to break it down.
ReplyDeleteI agree that everyone has different opinions and perspectives of writing, which is why people should be able to choose what they want to read.
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