On Campus, Vampires Are Besting the Beats

Through the increasing amount of more modernized and less education writings, the literature deemed with merit in today's world highly differs than what books were honored decades ago. The "advancement" that comes over time isn't exactly favorable in this respect, however; while classics from the Beat generation get right down to the core of '50s risqué and fervent societal revolutions as interesting -- if not more -- than the present-day books that're fabricated on more youthful and less thought-out principles, the latter still tends to be the more popular type of the two.

Through the article "On Campus, Vampires are besting the beats", the author assesses the book choices of college students. By means of statistics and comparisons between the Beat generation forty years ago and today's society, the writer explains that the choices of literature have degraded in the amount of essential literary merit present, which is something that college students must learn to appreciate in books. "Serious literature" is shunned as students vouch for pieces that are more "entertaining", modernized, and that don't require as much brain power or analysis to understand. By citing credible sources that contribute to ethos, the writer draws the conclusions that students' choices in literature are affected by rising technological advancement; the availability of information easily accessed by media via the social networks, the Internet, and television denies the need for reflecting socio-economic news and standings through literature.