ch.9

Contemporary realistic fiction is very good in this chapter that something is not real but might can happen. These stories tells the real life of some people and describes the setting, plot, and timing. These type of stories deal with everyday problems as well as pleasures and relationships. I think this type of literature gives teachers a great tool to address real life situations in the classroom – thing such as death or divorce, instances that will very likely affect each and every student. These stories always have some type of controversial issues such as sexism, sexuality, violence, and profanity. Contemporary fiction can develop students personal beliefs and morals by deciding how they would have handled the dilemma faced by the main characters in the story. These stories deal with real life things that can happen so children can look and say that they don't want to go down that path. They can also say that they like that life and choose the wrong path. So these types of fiction can be good or bad. The African culture speaks a lot about situations and problems that will occur you young children in their culture that I like. All culture have different plots or some kind of situation that they will have to deal with. I am trying to say is we all need to watch out for the children because our parents today are having problems with raising children properly. There aren't many Big mommas' out there to deal with the discipline today and tell the kids of the struggle of yesterday that plagued their ancestors. You have to have an appreciation for these types of stories because of the story lines in them.