Non fiction critical analysis

Non-Fiction critical analysis

                In the article “Should Young Adult Books Have Age Ratings?” by Husna Haq, Haq wants us to know that G.P. Taylor and Patrick Ness had an idea to not ban books, but to make them have age ratings. In Haq’s eyes, this is a great idea because books will not be limited to kids, but they can make the decision for themselves whether or not they wanted to read these books or not based on the age rating. One example Haq uses is the quote “This is the most frightening thing that has ever been written for kids.” By G.P. Taylor. To show that even an author can write scary things for kids unknowingly and that is why books should be rated by an expert. She also tells the story of how Disney channel is supposed to be for kids, but it shows kids disrespecting their parents, whereas YA fiction teaches lessons. Some, some parents might not approve of. She also compares the internet, which does not have ratings and has a lot more worse things than YA fiction, to YA fiction, which with age ratings, is a lot better than the internet.

                Haq hopes to persuade readers that if YA fiction had age ratings, everybody would be happy. The people who don’t want their children reading this kind of literature will not read the books that are for their age and the people who just don’t care, their kids can just read anything. One way she does this is by using quotes from real writers that are a little bit exaggerated as well. This helps her argument because to most people, authors are a reliable source. This is because they are the ones who write the books, being the experts. She uses the quote: “This is the most frightening thing that has ever been written for kids.” This is probably not the most frightening thing for kids, but this language helps scare the readers into believing her claim. She also says in the article that Taylor went to scholastic to propose the idea of age ratings on YA fiction after that she says “Given the less-than-warm response…” this shows that scholastic was less than warm to giving age ratings and that shows a negative rate to scholastic.

                At first, I thought that age ratings on YA fiction was a stupid idea because kids would ignor them, but now I think that they would be good because it depends on what kind of kid is reading the book. For example, when Taylor says “This is the most frightening thing that has ever been written for children” that was his opinion. Another child may have this opinion as well. Whereas another kid might have a completely different opinion. That is where age ratings come in. if a child sees an age rating that they don’t think will affect them, then they will just go along and read the book. But, if someone who thinks that this book will scare them or affect them in a negative way.