Should Kids Be Reading That?
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| Oak Park Public Library "I Read Banned Books" (9/24/2011) via Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Creative Commons License |
Those kinds of books: religion and spirituality in young adult literature is the source that I have chosen to base my second project on. Today I will analyze this text for cultural messages.
Cultural Keywords
- spirituality
- The author uses this word throughout the text, and sets up the author's argument that spirituality and religion is everywhere and shouldn't be ignored by school libraries
- taboo
- This word represents the current views that many school libraries have concerning religious books
- library
- Libraries are the subject and potential audience of this text
Thesis
The author's thesis is that opportunities for kids to encounter religious texts provide them with a more complete and open perspective of themselves; these books can help young adults discover who they are as individuals. School libraries need to end the taboo on books with religious content.
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