In the beginning of her speech she claims that writers of young adult literature focus more on validating the “spasm” that teenagers face rather than opening the book world to a more open experience. She uses ethos to try and give herself credibility in her speech. She says that a young adult writer charged that she “was giving comfort to book banners” and that her arguments “encourage a culture of fear around YA literature.” She replies to this saying that she in fact does not want these things to happen but she wishes “people in the book business would exercise better taste…that our culture was not marching toward ever-greater explicitness in depictions of sex and violence.” By her thoroughly expressing her ideas she successfully uses ethos to prove her credibility to her
In the beginning of her speech she claims that writers of young adult literature focus more on validating the “spasm” that teenagers face rather than opening the book world to a more open experience. She uses ethos to try and give herself credibility in her speech. She says that a young adult writer charged that she “was giving comfort to book banners” and that her arguments “encourage a culture of fear around YA literature.” She replies to this saying that she in fact does not want these things to happen but she wishes “people in the book business would exercise better taste…that our culture was not marching toward ever-greater explicitness in depictions of sex and violence.” By her thoroughly expressing her ideas she successfully uses ethos to prove her credibility to her