A Rhetorical Analysis Of Darkness Too Possible By Megan

The article “Darkness Too Visible” by Meghan Cox Gurdon, is an article about the dark content that is written within young adult books. In this article Meghan attempts to persuade the reader to believe that the dark content should be removed from young adult novels. Meghan integrates many secondary arguments that help support her belief of having dark young adult novels censored. Meghan creates her argument by incorporating many writing practices, such as the use of logos and pathos, and the use of third person writing. Meghan wrote this article to persuade the audience to remove and censor all dark content that is in young adult literature. If the government were to side with Meghan on the issue of dark literature, and censor or ban all dark

Meghan wrote this article to persuade the audience to side with her belief of getting rid of dark content within young adult literature. Meghan starts off her article by using Energeia where she tells a story of a 46-year-old mother that goes to a local Barnes & Noble to find a book for her 12-year-old daughter as a welcome home gift, only to leave the store empty-handed and feeling thwarted and disheartened (Gurdon). The mother felt this way because after sifting through hundreds of books, all she could find were lurid sinister-like novels not meant for children to read (Gurdon). Meghan includes this story at the beginning of the article to act as some sort of hook that gets the reader’s attention, all while establishing the topic of her argument and using pathos to engage the reader. Meghan then chose to narrow down her audience to parents by asking the reader how dark they thought contemporary fiction was for teenagers and then by answering “Darker than when you were a child, my dear” (Gurdon). Meghan chooses to limit her audience to mainly parents of teenagers because this would allow her to reach an audience

If this were to happen, then this would affect the economy, the employment rate, and the well being of readers. If the government were to ban all dark literature then this would cause the shelves at book stores to be empty, which inevitably would cause all bookstores to close their doors due to no book sales. The banning of all dark literature would also cause all of the English teachers to be fired because English would not be able to be taught without literature, and most of the literature used is considered “dark”. With the loss of many jobs, the unemployment rate would rise causing the economy to spiral down hill. On the bright side, the banning of all dark literature would also lead to a decrease in deforestation since little to no books would be printed, which would inevitably lead to a more oxygen rich world. Since only dark literature would be banned, then all of the happier books with inspiring stories would be produced for people to read, which would cause people to be happier in life instead of feeling sad and depressed because of the dark novels. Although people will be happier, there will still be a need for dark literature causing dark novels to be sold in the black market for extremely high prices just like drugs. In the end, the banning of dark literature can be considered both a good and a bad thing depending on how the world