Friday, July 26, 2013

Should Twilight Saga Be Banned?

Seems like not many parents and teachers love the vampire werewolf love story as much as teens do.

Twilight Saga revolves around the love triangle of Bella Swan, the vampire Edward Cullen, and the werewolf Jacob Black. The Twilight fever began on early 2008 when everyone is all about #TeamEdward or #TeamJacob. The real-life town of Forks, Washington has been packed with literary tourist from all over the world.

Despite that, Stephenie Meyer's 4 books came fifth on the American Library Association's list of books which people tried hardest to ban in the last year with complaints about both their level of sexual explicitness and their "religious viewpoint".

The British Conservative Party politician and Secretary of State for education, Michael Gove, also happens to be against the vampire love story. In a speech at Brighton College on Thursday (05/09/2013), the education secretary told his audience: "Too many children are only too happy to lose themselves in Stephenie Meyer. There is a Great Tradition of English Literature, a Canon of transcendent works, & Breaking Dawn is not part of it,"
The same thing happens on the other side of the globe. In many Australian middle schools , Stephanie Meyers Twilight saga has also been banned. The Australian schools viewed the widely popular novels to be inappropriate, containing sexual content. 

I personally believe that everyone has the right to read everything they want. In fact, Twilight books has managed to build interest of young adults to finally read books. I think that fantasy novels are meant to be clearly fictional, so the idea of vampires can be expressed in fictional works just as any other fictional or mythical creatures. In that case, should we ban children from learning about ghosts and goblins on Halloween?


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