Final Exam
1. I fully disagree with the arguments against children’s literature and personally find this genre to be quite valuable for many reasons. To discuss my disagreement with the arguments, I will focus on The Girl Who Drank the Moon as I explore two of the arguments from above. The first argument I will focus on is “Isn’t it silly and simple-minded stuff about dating and trivia like that?” In response to this, The Girl Who Drank the Moon was far from simple-minded and actually had nothing to do with dating. This book explored a complex, fairytale-like world that had several twists and turns. The book bounced between three main settings where characters lived their own lives. Eventually, the plot braids the three settings together as each of the main storylines overlaps with each other in the end. The second argument I will focus on is “Isn’t it mostly depressing problems—like suicide, death, abortion, pregnancy? Hasn’t it been censored a lot?” To this, my rebuttal is that while this bo
