Keep the Unimaginable, Imaginable

I feel like Literary Fiction is less worthy of our time than Genre Fiction. Literary Fiction has the ability to put over 50% of its readers to sleep (I have fallen asleep reading a Literary Fiction…multiple times). When Genre Fiction has the ability to make the readers attached to the characters themselves, go through the adventure with them, making the book nearly impossible to put down.  To be honest though I would rather keep Literary Fiction in schools because the second we start pulling Genre Fiction into the schools the stories will lose their excitement. If Genre Fiction would to be put into the school curriculum we, as students, would begin to hate those books too. When you start putting questions like “What was the author’s purpose here? What is the tone/mood in this piece? ” to a book, you begin to break down parts of a book that NO ONE (at least no student) really cares about. As readers we want to at least try to enjoy the book, and if we take the books we do enjoy and start ripping them to shreds, just to understand why the author wrote it that way, you lose all enjoyment of that story. If we really wanted to know why a book was written we would look it up ourselves. We, as readers, are just glad we had the chance to experience the story that has come to life, through the authors thoughts. That’s what makes the school books so…annoyingly dull, but I would rather the schools stay the same and throw in an independent read every once in a while, then to pick at the heart of a piece that never need to be pulled apart in the first place. Keeping the unimaginable land and creatures imaginable, keeps the story alive, NOT picking at it like it’s a hunk of meat.