point of view, their skills and ages are not classified for thought and intellectuality including the comprehension, tastes, or reading experiences are learned and trained
instead of evolutionary. As a result, in this study, the readers of Judy Blume imply the readers who
have taste for exploring bad realities, who take pleasures and have the ability to make sense of the portrayal of bad mannerism, and who are not annoyed by the
inexperience to the exposure of difficult knowledge.
C. Children’s Literature
Many experts, in short, believe Children’s Literature is the oral and written
literary texts whose implied readers are those who enjoy the pleasures and can make sense to have children point of views. It can be created both by adults and children
themselves. Children’s literature is commonly characterized by the fictional characters which are close to children’s life. It does not only use children’s voice,
children’s literature can also have adults as its characters. The settings are also taken from the places that children are familiar with as well as imaginative places they want
to visit. The themes in children’s literature include the problems and the interests of childhood
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. However, since the difference bet
ween ‘adult’ and ‘children’ is understood to be less significant,
it is noted that the pleasures of children’s literature are essentially the pleasures of all literature. As well as the adult
literature, children’s literature also demands enjoyments, knowledge, and understanding. Therefore, sophisticated or
complex themes and issues can be one of the characteristics of this literature.
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4. Problem Formulations
Based on the background elaborated in the previous sub-chapter, the research focuses the formulation on how the commonly silenced realities including sensuality
and sexuality, bad sides of life, and unexpected behaviors are disapproved and silenced by adults yet shown in
Blume’s novels; and how those silenced, on the contrary, empowers the book aesthetically and practically. Therefore, the problem
formulation is i n what way Blume’s selected novels yield pleasures in Children’s
Literature as well as their therapeutic effects in voicing the following silenced issues: 1. Sensuality and Sexuality
2. Bad Sides of Life 3. The Unexpected Manners
5. Objectives of the Study
In the attempt to investigate pleasures and the practical uses of voicing the silenced brute sides of life, sexuality, and the unexpected behaviors, this research has
an objective formulated to elaborate how Blume’s selected novels yield pleasures in
Children’s Literature as well as their therapeutic effects in voicing the following silenced issues:
1. Sensuality and Sexuality 2. Bad Sides of Life
3. The Unexpected Manners
6. Benefits of the Study
The results of this study may contribute to share the conceptual understanding about the existence of common but unchecked assumptions about childhood and
