The Impact of Modern Literature's Focus on Mystical and Fantasy

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Reading can be vital because it "determines the focus of your mind" (Covington). Is reading bad for a person? Does this mean modern literature is partly responsible for the corruption of society because it determines the way people think? Reading can transport people to different places, times, and state of minds. But what you read will determine it all. Even though modern literature makes great reads, it is changing the views of society because magazines send the wrong messages and modern literature only focuses on mystical and fantasy ideas.

Modern literature makes fascinating reads because readers are able to escape into a fantasy world. Reading exposes the reader into a different mindset (Covington). It allows bookworms to think about what they do not have, what they wish to have, or simply just escape from reality. Sometimes it is nice to sit down after a tiresome day, open up a fantasy book and read about the things that can never happen. The reader knows it will never happen, but it is just relaxing to start dreaming about the mystical. Who has not heard of the book Twilight? The book has traveled globally leaving teenage girls star struck. The book is based upon Bella’s viewpoint, an average teenage girl that is not popular or outstandingly beautiful. The girl is just like every other teenage girl going through the good and bad times of the teenage years. Bella moves away from her comfortable life in Arizona to a new life in Washingon. Bella’s world is turned upside down when the unbelievable becomes her life.,

Bella enters into the peculiar atmosphere of high school and quickly learns that anything is possible. the story makes a dramatic, one hundre...

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...t reality. Some say that if the reader will avoid abiding by Rowling’s philosophy, the book is a great read (Aguilar). Maybe the book was not designed for the minds of younger children, but for the mind of mature adults. A critic says that children who are “wrong” readers are definitely not recommended to read the Harry Potter series. The series may be a “matter of debate” rather than a “matter of faith” (Aguilar).

Book based on mystics and fantasies will change the mindset of the readers and possibly change values of morals.

Many people say that reading will only stimulate the mind and enhance one’s reading level. Statistics have proven that reading abilities have increased but has actually plummeted towards the ground. “Since 1983, more than 10 million Americans reached the 12th grade without having learned to read at a basic level,” states the Literacy Company.

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