Non-Fiction Critical Analysis

    In the article "Has Young Adult Fiction Become Too Dark?" Mary Elizabeth Williams, the author, talks about her opinion on Young Adult fiction and if it has become to dark for the children these authors are aiming for. She believes that the genre is perfectly fit for the age it is aimed for but understands where these conserned parents are coming from. 
   In the article she states that, "It's our job as parents to protect our kids... But there's something almost comical about raising them with tales of big bad wolves and poisoned apples and then deciding at some point that literature is too 'dark' for them to handle. Kids are smarter than that." She also states "My elder girl has read the dark... books... And when I asked her what she thought... She rolled her tween eyes and said 'Does she get that they're not called 'children's' books? They're 'young adult.' Adult." So not only she believes that young adult fiction is fit for these ages but so does her daughter. An actual tween.
   I belive that young adult fiction is definetely fit for ages eleven and up because, although these topics may seem scary and feel as though these ages aren't going to understand the topics in these books, they actually do. They've heard of these topics of cancer, dying, suicide, self harm, etc, in their daily lives. Whether it's off the news or at school, these teens have heard about it at some point. These books are only putting it in a way that we as young adults can understand it more thouroughly, by putting a character our age through one of these many topics young adults books are written about. Young adult books are for young adults, why ban it?