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In the article "Why the Best Kids Books Are Written In Blood" by Sherman Alexi, author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexi expresses his reaction, opinion, and counter argument to Meghan Cox Gurdon's article "Darkness Too Visible". He explains how he has met with sixty students who battled depression, suicide, gang warfare, sexual abuse, physical abuse, poverty, racism, and learning disabilities and asked the readers how people already scarred by these battles could be scarred once more by the books they read. He wondered if "a dystopian novel will frighten a kid who already lives in hell?" He finished the article by saying that the best kids books come from the people who've felt and experienced what  they're writing about.

Sherman Alexi incorporated many crafting strategies in his article. He included what seemed to be all of his opinions on the topic and added many anecdotes to support his claim. Most were the stories of some of the sixty students he met with. He projected paintings in your mind just by the descriptions of his anecdotes and portrayed the mood of the text with words loaded with emotion.

After reading "Darkness Too Visible" I felt a little uneasy about what I was reading according to that article. But then I read Sherman Alexi's article and, well, I did not feel uneasy. I agree with Sherman Alexi, and I think I had already disagreed with MCG but didn't really know how. I also really liked this article because it was very strong and not at all robotic. When reading it, I could tell that it was written with passion and emotion that, really, the whole thing stood out and really did leave you thinking. I think the author got the reaction he was looking for from readers like me. You could even say he got more.