Darkness to Visible

     In the article, "Darkness to Visible" the author Megan Cox Gurdon published in the wall street journal, the author is trying to get a message out. She wants us, the readers, to know that the content of young adult books has become much more "grueling", then a few decades previous. She wants us as readers, after reading her article, to think or agree with her that the literature of YA books has become highly in inappropriate our future generation of young adults.
     The author not only is trying to persuade us something, but also trying to
 makes feel a certain way (in order to persuade us). The author, Megan Cox Gurdon is trying to put us in a feeling of darkness, because she wants us to understand that lots of YA books  are dark, so ,of course, she wants to put us in a "dark" mood. To put us in a dark mood she definetly uses the word "dark in numerous forms a large sum of times.
She also gives of books like "The Marbury Lens" or "Go Ask Alice and then gives a dark,  descriptions that make the books look worse then they may really be.
For example for "Go Ask Alice" the author states  "recounts a girl spiral into drug addiction, rape, prostituition and a fatal overdose. Also the description of "the Outsiders" is much worse then the book really is; "class tensions, family dysfunction and violent, disaffected youth" I have read this book and personally the description to me is way overboard. There are warm hearted scenes of family and friendship and other beautiful moments that if anything is a good influence on teens. The author to set the mood and to make the feel dark or effected gives several examples of YA books and gives grueling descriptions of them and is very dramatic to connect with her readers.
     I do agree that there are plenty of Young Adult books that are violent inappropriate and disgusting, but I do not like the way the author, Megan Cox Gurdon, tries to persuade her reason. I'm actually in some way irritated with the way she described some of the books. Honestly I haven't read to many of the books she mentioned but she just completely made these books sound cruel and vicious. She is way to dramatic about the subject, although the way she makes these books sounds, she is quite successful with her arguing, but still I do not agree with her perspective on most of these books, even though i have not even read most of them. If anything after reading this article her righting has irritaed me to the point that I now want to read some of these books just to see if her dramatics are true to the book.