In, "The Fault in our Stars" I don't find myself resisting the text a lot.  However, when I do resist the text, it's when the author, John Green, really gets into detail about cancer.  I think that I resist the text at this point is because cancer is a scary thing to think about.  To me, it's crazy to think that someone fairly close to my age needs an oxygen everywhere she goes.  I find myself resisting the text when the author goes into depth with cancer terminology.

Argument essay

     Teens should be able to read what they want.  Books should not be banned because, then it only creates more interest about the book.  Adults however can have a slight say on the books being read.  Young adult fiction doesn't portray lies it portrays issues that are actually happening.

     Teens should be able to read what they want.  A book doesn't and shouldn't influence you to do bad things.  For example in, "Has young adult fiction become too dark" by Mary Elizabeth Williams, Williams states, "And let me further assure you, an entire generation of woman managed to devour the "Flowers in the Attic" series without having sex with their brothers.  In fact I can safely say that many of us read "Lace" and "Baldwin", and the one didn't rot out the others we read as teens continue to do now, to be moved to fall in love with characters, to learn and to sometimes just explore the things that scared and fascinated us." Like Williams said a book hasn't influenced anyone to do anything bad and so no book probably will.
     Books shouldn't be banned, but parents can have a slight say on what their teens read.  In, "Darkness too Visible", Meghan Cox Gurdon says, "…teen fiction can be like a hall of fun house mirrors, constantly reflecting back hideous portrayals of what life is."  Teen fiction is actually just an overview if real life issues, like self mutilation, kidnapping, pederasty, incest and brutal beatings.
     All-in-all teens should be able to read what they want.  These bad things happening in teen fiction actually happen.  Teens should be able to handle handle a book, if they can't what will life be like for them in the real world?

"Faithful elephants" 
     In class we read "Faithful Elephants", by Yukio Tsuchiya.  It's a fantastically written true story about what happened in Japan during world war 2.  Bombs were being dropped over Tokyo, so the army ordered the zoo keepers of the Ueno zoo to kill all of the animals.  The elephants were the hardest to kill.  The zoo keepers decided to starve all three elephants.  
    At the beginning of the story it is a beautiful day and cherry blossoms are falling into the wind, from the cherry blossom tree over the grave of the fallen elephants.  I believe that the setting is a showing that everything is calm.  By the middle of the story the text says, "bombs were dropped on Tokyo every day an night like falling rain."  At the end of the story the text says, "…as the cherry blossoms fell in the grave, like snowflakes." 
     The author describes two different things falling, differently, the bombs and the cherry blossoms.  He describes the bombs falling like snow.  Snow is heavier than rain.  When Yukio Tsuchiya is describing the bombs as rain, the reader doesn't feel the sorrow that the story brings.  The story is strong and  impactful.  The emotions are lighter (aren't really there) like the rain is lighter than snow.
     At the end of the story the author says, "…as the cherry blossoms fell on the grave, like snowflakes."  By the end of the story the reader has already felt all of the emotions of the story.  The emotions are heavier, like the snow. 
     This true story of John, Tonky, and Wanly (the elephants) was amazing and sad at the same time.  I really noticed the bombs falling like rain and the cherry blossoms falling like snow, I thought that they showed a connection in those two lines of the story.