Alexandra Petri Love To Read Kids Summary

“Love to read, kids? Your time is almost up” published on December 8, 2012, is an article written by Alexandra Petri who argues about a current topic that could lead to negative changes. Petri is a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in English and concentration in classics, she is a newspaper columnist for the Washington Post and she runs the ComPost blog. She also wrote for the Harvard Crimson and for the Internet comedy series on Harvard Time (Petri, 74). As a general writer about current issues, Petri can negotiate in this matter and give her own opinion about the changes. The author considers in this article that when replacing fictional stories with what she calls “manuals” will lead to boredom of kids who won’t care anymore about reading which will kill

As an English major, she thinks that English words are not being use efficiently, that those rich words are losing their values when they are being used in manuals: “words in regulations and manuals have been mangled and tortured and bent into unnatural positions” (Petri,75), she consider that words should not be constrained in a specific boring way to be written, not at all, word should be written in their natural beautiful way: “the best way to understand what words can do is to see them in their natural habitat”(Petri,75). She explains that kids are not going to understand a technical dry sentence that doesn’t mean anything to them, they don’t care about the importance of some scientific subjects, techniques and regulations, this type of texts are boring and kids as well as teenagers will not be attracted to them, they won’t read anymore, because reading will be meaningless. Petri continues giving one of the causes that led to the shift from fiction to nonfiction stories: teachers neglected the importance of using technical words and depended on the English part to perform “her