Literature as an Indispensable Tool for the Reformation of the Child: the Children’s Literature Example
Publication Date: 25/09/2020
Author(s): Dr. Uche Nnyagu, Dominion Joanna Ngozi.
Volume/Issue: Volume 3 , Issue 1 (2020)
Abstract:
Literature has as its major aim, to educate and help the audience to understand the society as to be able to live and appreciate the society. One reading any literature reads to grasp the message of the literature. Children’s literature is an indispensable means upbringing. Therefore, the belief of many that this aspect of literature is easy to write is a mere illusion. If we believe that children in their formative stage are docile, then we will realize that children’s literature is not as easy to write as many assume. Many people have written and published trash and pushed such material to the market for the consumption of the child. When a child reads, instead of the literature reforming, it rather corrupts. It is based on this fact that the researcher has analyzed some texts and has given an illustration of the paradigm of children’s literature so that one understands why a child must not be allowed to read any book he or she lays his hand in.
