5. Problem with Religion Voicing the silenced : between pleasures and therapeutic effects of children`s literature in Judy Blume`s selected novels.

pattern on the walls and ceiling of the store. By then my father is unconscious. I didn’t want to let go of him. The police had to pry me loose. They let me ride to the ambulance with him. But when we got there, Daddy was already dead. 199 In missing her father, Davey is also characterized as a kid who mourns that she rejects to eat, to take a bath, and to go to school days after the funeral. Davey thinks her sadness is too deep that it is not enough only to know that she is sad. “I don’t feel very well,” I tell her. “I might be coming down with something.” I get into bed and lie back on the clean pillowcase. Mom sits down on the edge of my bed. “I remember my first day of high school,” she says, tossing her hair away from her face. “I had violent stomach cramps. I didn’t want to go either. She takes my hand in hers. “It’s not that,” I say. “It’s…” “I know, Davey.” Tears well up in her eyes. “Don’t you think I know?” “Yes,” I tell her. “But having you know isn’t enough.” 20 Such described world in children’s literature suggests that children should not be exposed to situations upsetting them like sadness, fear, disappointment, and under pressured because this world goes contradictorily to the ideology persuading children of the typical life of the joyful world. It is then understood that broad books intended for babies in fact show the world as nothing but bright and clean and new and that the flaws, marks, and holes do not even exist. Nodelman observes that such pictorial even continue to be intended to the older children 119 . Therefore, if children were not already the optimistic beings, then the fictions would encourage them by insisting that the world is uncomplicated and blissful like in adults’ utopia. To support this, surely, it is done by never giving any information that would suggest 119 Nodelman, The Pleasures 98. anything else about the world. Children are kept away from the access in which books tell them that their life is far from easy, perfect, and harmonized ones. The data taken says that voicing the silenced brute realities in Blume’s novels results in ways that the attempts to speak for and about children is not about confirming their difference from and inferior to adults. In the other words, Blume makes it possible to understand that brute realities do not only belong to mature adults, but also to kids; and that children fictional characters through the stories are not about stable depiction of young people’s incapability and naiveté in facing the problems.

2. Bad Sides of Life: Pleasures of Acknowledging Newness, of Escaping, and

Recognizing Gaps Indeed, Nodelman observes that so many children’s books are achingly, boringly, and mind-numbingly familiar and similar to one another and to countless thousands of books provided in the past: stories about cute delicate fairies, cute bumptious gnomes, cute talking animals in human clothing, cute princesses with cute strange powers, and cute sad-middle class children with sibling or parent problems, or cute and incorrectly happy middle-class children. Ironically, the new books are just the replica versions and variations of the old ones 120 . Beside the library budget and the profit, the false claims about children prevent kids from enjoying newness in their 120 Nodelman, Reading 236.