Escape from Reality: Melvin Burgess's Smack versus Holly Black's Valiant

Escape from reality is what most people crave. Some people can not cope with their existence, they will use drugs or self-destruction as a way to escape from short-term or permanent ones. In Smack of Melvin Burgess and Valiant of Holly Black, the hero tried to escape from reality through drugs and self-destruction. When there is no one in the endless dark sea, young people need a way to escape from hope. Valiant can provide more promising results for young people because of that information, character depth, and similarity. Smack does not want its widespread roles and overly high-profile stories.

In her latest independent young adult novel, the darkest part of the forest, Holly Black returns to a familiar and exciting field: fairies and dark magic at the intersection between the human and non-human world. Most people are familiar with Black series "The Modern Wonderland Story" (Tithe, Valiant, Ironside) from 2002 to 2007; that series made Black a bold and clever young adult stories writer. Featuring strange kids and treating complex emotional and social problems sincerely

This blog is part of the 2016 Banned Books Week series. See also Melvin Burgess's blog and censorship author, Christian Algar's 'fixed' Il Decamerone article, scholar Tanya Kirk's monks, explanations about the Bible and cricket, and books flag by curator Alison Ha. Desson's inspired banned book. The Forbidden Week was initiated by the American Library Association in 1982 to deal with ever-increasing schools, bookshops and library books in the US, especially for children and young people. In the UK, we are publishing events, events, and a series of blogs including censorship and banning through our alliance with the British Library, Freedom of Expression, and Islington Library and Heritage Services. . Relationship with ALA

According to Marvin Clark's Melvin Burgess's "Backtrack - Street Kid's Diary", directed by Danny Boyle, and Irvine Wales novels saw the movie "Guess Train". . All of these text deals with drug problems and their influence on young people. I chose this general topic. It is because it is very important in today's life, but I think that is not enough. I have discovered that the problem discussed is not only the similarity between the three texts, there are many basic points that can be compared between them.

"Garbage" is a wonderful novel by Melvin Burgess. Tar likes Gemma, but Gemma does not want to be bound. Gemma wants to fly, but no one can fly forever. Although the life of tar is not good, Gemma thinks that her life is so bad, but it is not so. Gemma's life is normal. Jema just needs to work with her father. Gema insists most of the time at home and I always want to get up late at night rather than going to school, but in most cases she is in my own way, but not always.