What is literary merit? It is lesson or a value that a reader takes away from a novel. This value is something the author intended on the audience learning and it is usually a subtle lesson. Not a moral but something similar to it. Literary merit is something the reader can apply to the world around them but it does not come from every single book. Books like
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief are fun to read but their sole purpose is to entertain the reader.
A reader could pull lessons out of the adventures and disasters the protagonists face but there is no concrete evidence and these books are fantasy fiction. However,
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee is a high achievement of literary merit. This book is a continuation with the beloved characters from
To Kill a Mockingbird and I have never read a better book. Scout has finally grown up into a young woman and goes by her birth name Jean Louise. When Jean Louise returns to her childhood home, she finds that Maycomb has changed. But no real changes have occurred because Jean Louise is the one that has changed. she grew up thinking her father, Atticus, was a god and he never made a mistake. She comes to find that her father is no god but he is human and he has made a lot of mistakes. Many of his decisions she does not agree with. Harper Lee uses Jean Louise's struggles to create a theme of one may find it difficult to find reality when they are still holding on to the past. This book can be considered literary merit because Harper Lee creates a protagonist that is so wrapped up in the past that she cannot see how her world as it is now and that was a lot of people are like. Many people do not see the reality of the world but only what they want to see. This is why this kind of books gets taught in school because the students analyze what the authors are trying say about the world and the students are the ones who try to make a change.
A reader could pull lessons out of the adventures and disasters the protagonists face but there is no concrete evidence and these books are fantasy fiction. However, Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee is a high achievement of literary merit. This book is a continuation with the beloved characters from To Kill a Mockingbird and I have never read a better book. Scout has finally grown up into a young woman and goes by her birth name Jean Louise. When Jean Louise returns to her childhood home, she finds that Maycomb has changed. But no real changes have occurred because Jean Louise is the one that has changed. she grew up thinking her father, Atticus, was a god and he never made a mistake. She comes to find that her father is no god but he is human and he has made a lot of mistakes. Many of his decisions she does not agree with. Harper Lee uses Jean Louise's struggles to create a theme of one may find it difficult to find reality when they are still holding on to the past. This book can be considered literary merit because Harper Lee creates a protagonist that is so wrapped up in the past that she cannot see how her world as it is now and that was a lot of people are like. Many people do not see the reality of the world but only what they want to see. This is why this kind of books gets taught in school because the students analyze what the authors are trying say about the world and the students are the ones who try to make a change.
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