Two Questions...

[leahbobet]

...both spawned by the never-ending parade of posts about how terrible Twilight is.*

1) So two major YA series hit big in the last ten years: Twilight and Harry Potter. In the early part of each series, you saw what can be charitably called low production values in terms of craft, plots that revolved around blatant wish-fulfillment, and wholesale rips of the tropes of already established subgenres. Potter is the poster child for mainstream acceptance. Twilight is excoriated regularly in newspapers, the internets, and local bookstores in reenactments of the Five Minutes' Hate.

What's the difference? What causes that?

I have my own theory, but I want to hear yours.


2) Where do people get the idea that exposing a child to a worldview or idea at all means the child will automatically agree with, adopt, and adhere to that worldview or idea?

Really, peoples. You met kids?


*Haven't read it, not gonna, no opinion on the matter.

Comments

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

My husband's Jewish (I'm a convert), but his dad was a total McGovern supporter back in the day, and etc. Still, their people came over a bit earlier, the patriarch of the Russian branch got out in the back of a hay wagon after the 1905 revolution, and the Austria-Poland contingent not much later. So while they dealt with the typical American anti-Semitism, especially as in those days, there were no specific ties to relatives in Europe during WWII (although most--all?--of the young men of age served in the US military during the war). I wonder if that earlier immigration date makes a difference.

The larger extended family on both sides has a range of observance vs. assimilation. Overall those whose political leanings I know are center to left.