Effects of Books and Movies Containing Fictional Characters to the Behaviour of Rogationist College Students Aged 14-16
CHAPTER 1
THE PROBLEM AND BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
A. Introduction
Fiction has entered their society like an endless storm ready to devour and conquer their mind sets. People have accepted it and grasped it in any possible way or chance it is given. They are somehow intrigued and captivated by unidentified flying objects, super strength and intoxicating vampires and wizards. Though they were fed with reasonable knowledge that these things are not plausible and were just made by the genius minds in every human being, they still seem to wish that all these fictional stories were true. Transformers, The Da Vinci Code, Twilight Saga, Superman, Star Trek and Star Wars. These are only few of those fictional movies and books that captured their interests. It was just a matter of time when our society totally accepted this genre and a whole wide frenzy to take place. Nowadays, fictional movies and books are getting popular. Having much said, there might be an effect to those young viewers or readers in how they view their lives after reading or watching those kinds of books and movies. The researchers chose the age bracket 14-16 for they are easily hooked with fictional stories especially because their age is neither too young nor too old. There are teenagers, who act like robots, imitate spells and some who even worship and put their lives entirely to those characters. Some even hurt themselves to show their commitment. (www.gainsville .com) The problem is that they do not take fiction as what it is supposed to be, therefore they are imitating it or they are easily persuaded by the fictional information that those books and movies feed to them. There was an article about teenagers who had watched Twilight and Harry Potter seems to be different than before. Most of them devoted themselves to the character and impersonated them. (Kundanis, R. 2003). The fictional involvement is a meditational device that gives the children
THE PROBLEM AND BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
A. Introduction
Fiction has entered their society like an endless storm ready to devour and conquer their mind sets. People have accepted it and grasped it in any possible way or chance it is given. They are somehow intrigued and captivated by unidentified flying objects, super strength and intoxicating vampires and wizards. Though they were fed with reasonable knowledge that these things are not plausible and were just made by the genius minds in every human being, they still seem to wish that all these fictional stories were true. Transformers, The Da Vinci Code, Twilight Saga, Superman, Star Trek and Star Wars. These are only few of those fictional movies and books that captured their interests. It was just a matter of time when our society totally accepted this genre and a whole wide frenzy to take place. Nowadays, fictional movies and books are getting popular. Having much said, there might be an effect to those young viewers or readers in how they view their lives after reading or watching those kinds of books and movies. The researchers chose the age bracket 14-16 for they are easily hooked with fictional stories especially because their age is neither too young nor too old. There are teenagers, who act like robots, imitate spells and some who even worship and put their lives entirely to those characters. Some even hurt themselves to show their commitment. (www.gainsville .com) The problem is that they do not take fiction as what it is supposed to be, therefore they are imitating it or they are easily persuaded by the fictional information that those books and movies feed to them. There was an article about teenagers who had watched Twilight and Harry Potter seems to be different than before. Most of them devoted themselves to the character and impersonated them. (Kundanis, R. 2003). The fictional involvement is a meditational device that gives the children
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