I believe there should be unlimited access to why a fiction young adult fiction, because teens should learn about life's potential challenges through literature. Exposure to these dark themes might prevent teens from having to experience and make these mistakes in their own lives.
Hiding these topics from teens doesn't educate them because they won't know important knowledge about serious topics that affect them and other teens around them. For example, in the article teen fiction plots are darker and starker by William Porter says, "These darker books reflect what today's faster maturing teens routinely see in their multimedia world. Topics include suicide, disfigurement, mental illness, violence and terrorism." But if these topics are routinely seen by teens in our media, what's wrong with them reading about them?
Reading about topics such as suicide, disfigurement, just to name a few, gives teens a better perspective on potential challenges they may face. for example, in the article, "teen fiction plots are darker and starker" by William Porter, it says, "It takes fearful things and makes it approachable, Teens can explore these themes and use them to deal with issues in their own lives."
Having knowledge about these themes expecially suicide, can help teens prevent these things from happening not only in their own lives but the lives around them. The knowledge teens can learn from these themes can help insure kids know where and when they should get help. Like in the article "Has young adult fiction become too dark" says, "Darkness isn't the enemy. But ignorance always is."
That being said, "ignorance is the enemy," why would we want our children to be ignorant? That does not sound like a good thing to do to the future people who will be soon the people to run the country.
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