Blog Post 6

I don't think that genre fiction is less “worthy” of our school curriculum. In our day and age our writing and style of writing has changed from the past. Just because it is different than it used to be, it doesn’t mean that it is wrong. The popular books these days are the ones that are attention grabbers and aren’t so much the ones with great writing and use of literary terms. If the popular books are the ones that get students reading than they should be used over the classics that are usually painful for the average student to read. When students are forced to read books that they don’t like, they tend to grow up not liking any book because of their bad experiences in school. Schools should be nurturing students so that later in life they will develop good habits. In forcing a student to read a book they don’t like, you are helping them develop a bad habit of not reading books. Books are important to fuel the mind and help develop creativity and imagination. Although genre fiction does have less sophisticated writing they still get the reader to use their imagination and still help to develop their minds. Literary fiction has more literary devices and doesn’t quite focus on grabbing your attention but some people tend to like the meaning behind the words. In either case I believe that the only important factor is that people like what they are reading. Whether it is a classic or a popular genre fiction, as long as it interests you and makes you want to read I see no problem in either book. So as a result, school curriculums should let you choose books off of a popular genre fiction list or a classics list. Although most people would pick off of the genre fiction list it is still good to give students the choice to expand their reading knowledge. This way, students will get to choose a book they like and can develop good reading habits early in life. This could maybe help them be more interested in classics later on in life.