Thursday, February 16, 2012

What We Can Learn From Adventure Books

By Marian Pelwas


Adventure books are a genre of literature that have a thrill brought to real life just via reading. These novels bring out an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger as a major theme that brings out the story from the novels. Without literature history is dead, science is crippled, religion is compromised and most importantly the imagination is extinct.

A series of events are usually arranged in order to come up with a plot. Ideally, one event is supposed to lead to another. The suspense builds with time and the reader will be engrossed with the read as the plot is crafted.

Ever since the 19th century, literature has been on a path of transformation. Romance was originally the most common pieces of literature followed by dilemma. However, this genre has curved out a niche among readers of the present generation.

The readers are often inspired to mentally conceptualize the situation in the novel and try to visualize him self in that same situation and what they would do. This is one of the ways the author engages the audience in the book. A good novel keeps the readers guessing and wishing for a certain turn of events and that makes the reader glued to the writing.

The protagonist is often engulfed in danger. This could be anything from kidnap, being caught up in a robbery, or being a victim of a revenge mission. Most authors make the protagonist the good guy but there is always an exception. The plot keeps building and eventually ends after the danger gets averted whether by chance or design.

Most adventure books end with a punch. The good guy wins and the bad guys get punished. But even so, authors have to be creative in order to sate the obvious yet in a not so obvious way. This is what makes the novels interesting.




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