Extra Credit Blog

Contemporary literature is much different than literature was years ago. When I pick up a book that has been written in the last 10 years I expect it to be modernized. I expect the themes to be a lot like the world is now, with TV, iPods, cars, drugs, sex, etc. like when we read the Perks of Being a Wallflower, that is a lot of what I expect from most books now a days. I read a lot of books that were about the olden days, and war, and farms. I feel like a lot of books use to be about those topics. I also read books that had no references about drugs or sex or relationships within teens, if I read a book about a teenager the most it would say it that they “liked” or had a “crush” on someone, this also could be because I was younger although I did read pretty advanced books when I was younger. Now the books are about issues we have, maybe people are less afraid to write about them topics because now they won’t get criticized for it like the might have back then. There are lots of books about teens drinking and doing drugs, or having sex and relationship problems, there are books about gays now which I think it’s a pretty hot topic now. Those are the topics I usually expect to read about when I pick up a book that has been written in the last 10 years. I find them interesting also, maybe because I never really read about them before when there weren’t as many books being published about those topics. I also think it’s good to have those kinds of books if the author ends it with a good lesson and isn’t promoting drugs to younger kids or teens.