Genre Case

Would you rather read about a realistic and suspenseful mystery story? Or a ridiculous fantasy novel? When deciding whichever genre to publish, the publisher needs to take into thought between the two genres which will attract the largest teen audiance. In order to do this, we can closely analyze characterization, style, purpose, and even voice to choose the genre that will appeal to the teenage audiance the greatest.

Yes, of course you can have ordinary characters in a fantasy story. However without the make believe and unreal characters it wouldn't be a very acceptable fantasy story. In mystery stories the characters could be easier related to rather than those in a fantasy story. As an example the characters in the Pretty Little Liars series the main characters are teenage girls who are deal with the loss of a friend and their own individual problems as opposed to Twilight where the characters are vampires and warewolves and the problems of the actual people are mostly centered around those vampires and warewolves. Think about it, it would be a lot harder to relate to a blood sucking vampire as opposed to your average teenager. Even though having strange characters can make for an intersting story, having everyday people as charcters could make the reader think... Can this really happen?

Leading us into my next point, style. Although both genres have the ability ff keeping the reader intrigued, most mystery stories could actually happen. In reality there is no way that strange creatures like fawns, faries, talking animals, and elvs are lurking around with magical powers. This is because the style in a fantasy book in most cases is imaginary and mysterious. Which can contradic with mystery seeing how the style is mysterious also. But the author will build on one clue to the next using great detail so the reader can visualize what's going on. It is that that will pull the reader in, because so much suspense is created the reader won't want to stop. Then perhaps they will even want to read on in a series to figure out exactly how the mystery will end.

In general, the purpose of a book is to entertain the reader or readers. And in Fantasy the author can tak the reader into another world. For example The Cronicals of Narnia, four children find themselvs in a whole other relm just by hiding in a wardroble. Depending on the readers imagination, that could either be very exciting or just strange. On the other hand, mystery is far more realistic than fantasy as mentioned in previous paragraphs.With mystery being more realistic, the reader can relate more easily and become more interested in the book. All the far fetched ideas in the fantasy genre makes the stories next to impossible and I feel for a teenager to be seriously entertained by the story their imaginations would have to be wild. Let's face it, not many teens in this day and age have such imaginations. Mystery could appeal to any type of teenager,