One day you are walking down to your school's library to checkout a book for class. You arrive in the labrary ant start searching for the book on the shelves. It seems to be checked out so you go to the computer to see if there are any copies left. You search for the book but no results come up for it, so you go to the librarian and ask if it was misplaced on any of the other shelves. But then that's when they tell you, "The book was banned from the school". You say "Okay" and sadly walk away empty handed.
Book banning is when a school or government bans a book for profanity or other content. Currently the school has a shelf just for banned books (that where banned in other schools). One of these books is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The book was banned for use of the "n" word. I think that just because it has some racial content doesn't mean you should ban it. These types of books tell us what life was like back then in the time it was written. It's like banning the history!
The only pros to banning books are that people aren't exposed to things like racism, profanity, bad language, and inappropriate content early on. People will be exposed to that type of thing eventually anyway. I'm not saying that you should un-ban all books but you shouldn't ban then for just the use of a cuss word. If you have any further thoughts on this please reply, I would love to hear your comments.
Book banning is when a school or government bans a book for profanity or other content. Currently the school has a shelf just for banned books (that where banned in other schools). One of these books is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The book was banned for use of the "n" word. I think that just because it has some racial content doesn't mean you should ban it. These types of books tell us what life was like back then in the time it was written. It's like banning the history!
The only pros to banning books are that people aren't exposed to things like racism, profanity, bad language, and inappropriate content early on. People will be exposed to that type of thing eventually anyway. I'm not saying that you should un-ban all books but you shouldn't ban then for just the use of a cuss word. If you have any further thoughts on this please reply, I would love to hear your comments.
I like this piece, especially the fictional narrative introduction. I was left wanting more, wishing you went through some of the discussion about why people want to ban books, what they are hoping to achieve and what your views are on those stances held by others. Because of the length, I felt cheated.
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