My opinion on Genre fiction

Genre fiction explores the human imagination.  It has no limit save what its authors but on it.  It is fun to read and also has some of the same themes and lessons in them that commercial fiction does.  Literary/ commercial fiction focuses on ideas and how to portray ideas in the images and instances that occur while writing and try to create a deeper meaning that has to be forced upon their readers.  More or less literary fiction should be considered a work of art than an actual book.  Genre fiction on the other hand is more of a game than an art project.  It’s made to be fun to read and the really good ones were fun to write as well.  Even though the stories in genre are fun to read they also have the same lessons that the literary fiction has. 

We should add more genre fiction into the school curriculum because they are more interesting and they have pretty much the same lessons in them as the books we read in class.  Reading genre fiction would actually make reading fun at school because there’d be more of a selection.  Since there would be more of a selection in the books we’d read more students would be able to read what they wished.  All of this would cut down on the “Readicide” that the books that schools are making students. 

I think swapping Mice and Men for Twilight is a bad idea.  I would certainly go for another Genre fiction book, just not Twilight.  I’m sorry but I had issues with it and yes, I read the whole series and it really wasn’t that good.

Kids should read books because books are a means to gain knowledge.  I like to think that every book has a lesson in it, you just have to be looking for it.

Adapting I Am Number Four

Challenges a filmmaker would face is that they would have no description for the Main character, John Smith or number four.  Also the character gives little in the way of precisely describing the characters.  He also does not describe important objects in much detail. 

Scenes that must be kept:

·         The fight with mark in the woods during the Halloween haunted forest maze thing.  This seen is important because it shows John’s willingness to save his friends Sam and most importantly Sarah.  If anything it shows how strong their bond is.

·         The scene where they have to go rescue Henri from the magazine writers.  This is an important scene because John gets his second Legacy and has to use it to get needed information from the magazine writers.

·         Also the house fire scene should be kept because it is the reason that Henri and John are discovered by the Mogadorians.  Also it is another example of how strong John’s bond with Sarah is.

Scenes that would have to be cut: 

·         John’s visions from the past could probably be cut because they are more confusing at first and might be frightening for younger viewers.  Besides that they don’t really play a major role in the story and could be replaced by Henri explaining how things worked on Lorien.

·         The training that John under goes can be left out also because it doesn’t really do anything for the story other than shows how John advances his skills in using his Legacies.

·         The scene where John thinks that he wasn’t in the paper.  Though this shows his relief it eventually proves to be false.