On Campus, Vampires Are Besting the Beats

The author’s purpose of this article is to inform the readers such as college students that enjoy reading. He begins with the topic of why students, college students in particular, choose to read such childish books and fantasy based books, instead of a book that is more intellectual, using a wider based vocabulary, and making you think more. The diction that he uses is quite intelligent, so the target audience can range from middle school students to anyone older that. He asks many rhetorical questions such as why; even though we’re free from out parents, why we choose to read books that a typical middle school student would enjoy reading. He wants his readers and audience to read a deeper level of text and begin to think and understand instead of imagining some impossible fantasy. Present day, no students are picking up an intellectual textbook but they’d rather read Twilight or some book of that nature.
Back then reading was smarter, and students could actually begin to understand the text, but as of today, no student can interpret this text unless they are taught well. It goes on to ask why we don’t read books that were only popular about fifty to sixty years ago. If they were popular then, why aren’t they popular now? Have these books lost their entertaining and informing abilities? He asks, “What’s wrong with kids today?” “Do we not appreciate old literature?” Do we no longer have that same desire for these old books as we once did?”