In this article, Deborah S. Connelly talks about the history of book banning, its presence in society today, and actions that have and can be taken against it. Most of these actions stem from the responsibility of librarians and organizations. Connelly believes that librarians have an obligation to keep their content uncensored and readily available to the public. She has stated that the best way to prevent book censorship is to educate our society about the importance of diverse books. A more specific approach regarding this idea might be for a librarian to remind an opposing patron why the book on trial was bought in the first place, and what it could have to offer the reader. As said on the final page of her article, “Knowledge is the key…
Banning The lord of the flies and any other book, movie, and many other things is the work of communism. Think about it, if the state or federal government is going to go so far as to regulate the entertainment that suits your fancy, you might as well move to north korea if you want to be regulated like cattle by a sheep dog. The government has no right to say what I or any other free american can and can't do or read or watch (within the boundaries of the federal law aka the constitution). It’s not their job to babysit and treat us like we can not care for ourselves, this is the beginning of the implosion of america. The government, state or federal shouldnt be able to tell us, the people what we can and can not watch, look at, or anything else, and if it happens it is the start of how communism is formed in a country like ours.…
The challenged book I recently read was Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This book has been challenged, and almost banned, for quite a while. I personally disagree with the statement that this book should be banned. This book has a very deep and meaningful background, and the good definitely outdoes the bad.…
"It 's a wonder I haven 't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."- Anne Frank in her banned and challenged book, The Diary of a Young Girl.…
Imagine you’re in graduate school and you’re doing your doctorate on a controversial issue. You’ve done most of the research however there’s one book that has specific information that you need, and you can only find it in that particular book. You’ve looked on the online database and find out that the book is in your universities library. You go to the library and ask for some help finding the book you need, however the librarian informs you that the book was recently banned. How is it that in a country that prides itself in freedom of speech and self expression, a book on a controversial issue has been banned? Does it not contradict what the founding fathers fought so hard for in the Revolutionary war?…
In this article, Barry Gross talks about The Great Gatsby as one of the colossal disastrous works of American writing. He trusts that the durable advance of Gatsby lies, partially, in the American peruser's ready response to the novel's disastrous legend. The Great Gatsby was distributed in 1925 and has turned into a social archive. Gross incorporates into the paper that Nick perceives everything in telling the story from his discernment and how Gatsby is a disastrous legend in the novel. A collection first year recruit Nick who knows nothing about the twenties and he knows exactly what the novel is about. The novel substance exceptionally fundamental needs that couple of current books can be fulfilled. Gross keeps up that it satisfies our need to affirm our adamant religions in goals of boldness, honor, love and dependably. Like Gatsby's grin, it fulfills our need to recollect our interminable limits and guarantees us that it has the impression of us we plan to…
In 1987, “The Great Gatsby” was first challenged at a baptist college located in Charleston, SC. It was challenged for the “explicit content (profanity)”, “sexual content”, and the excessive partying and use of alcohol. In my opinion this book shouldn't have been banned. “The Great Gatsby” is very accurate towards the setting it portrays. Also if you read the book you'll see that the lesson in it, is a lesson everyone should learn.…
For Jay Gatsby to turn out all right at the end as the narrator promises, he must first be erased of his obscenity and indeterminacy. Barbara Will, the author of The Great Gatsby and The Obscene Word, argues in her criticism that only then can Gatsby come to stand as the vision of Americanism and, inevitably, America itself. The sociological criticism discusses the novel as the product of its time period, focusing on the American isolationist movement of the early 1920s and how, through the characters Tom Buchanan and Nick Carraway, the worldview of the dominant class, Fitzgerald included, is expressed.…
The banned book I picked Alice in the Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. In Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland, Alice goes into the world puzzles that seem to have no clear solutions, which copies the ways that life annoys expectations. Alice thinks that the solutions she accidents will make a certain kind of logic, but they repeatedly frustrate her control to figure out Wonderland. Alice goes to understand the Queen’s silly croquet game but to not reward. In every occasion, the riddles and challenges presented to Alice have no purpose or answer. Even though Lewis Carroll was a logician, in Alice’s Adventure In Wonderland he types a farce out of puns, riddles, and game of judgment. Alice learns that she cannot expect to find logic or meaning in the situations that she encounters. Even when they appear to be problems, riddle, or games that would normally have solutions that Alice would be able to figure out. At the end it was all a dream. Then she began to realize that life frustrates expectation and resists understanding, even when problem seem well-known or solvable.…
Almost four hundred years later, books are still being banned based on the fear of information. People of religious backgrounds question books which preach atheism, and fear for their religion. Parents question books which detail graphic or adult themes, for fear of their children’s innocence. Fear has been the primary motivator of literary outlawing for centuries, and it encroaches on our right to information to this very day. As Claire Mullally points out in her article ‘Banned…
Many people read and enjoy R.L. Stine books such as the goosebumps series and the fear street series. Even though many people love to read R.L. Stine books some of his books are still banned. Many parents have agreed that these books are not appropriate for children of certain age levels. When it comes down to it, it is the parents’ choice on what their child reads, but that doesn’t mean the book should be banned so that no child can read it without going to a place where the book isn’t banned. This is why I think banning these books is bad.…
Second-wave feminism. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. The base of evolutionary biology. All of these major changes in the world were products of books. People that read these influential pieces of literature went on to change the world and make history. Often, banned books lead the standings of contributors, as many of them become world renowned names such as To Kill A Mockingbird. Without these books, this world simply would not stand where it does today. People ban books because of the explicit content they hold and the negative impact they leave the reader with. Books should not be banned as they trail-blaze the path towards changing the world.…
The ALA bans books for bad language, sexual themes, and much more. If it was not for the ALA we would not have the entire subject of a banned book, but it is so I am here. The book that I am doing is the art of racing in the rain. This book doesn’t have much in it to get it banned but for the little that is in it got it banned. But this has been the loom on what I think about this book getting banned.…
The Catcher in the Rye. The Scarlet Letter. Huckleberry Finn. Harry Potter. The Diary of Anne Frank. Animal Farm. To Kill a Mockingbird. The Da Vinci Code. The Grapes of Wrath. These literary classics have been vital to the education of many, especially children and adolescents (Banned Books). These great novels both teach important values and educate children about world affairs and classic themes. Unfortunately, each of these novels has been banned at one point in time. In a country where freedom is so adamantly advocated, it is a wonder that an issue like censorship would even come up, that such a controversy would sink its claws into the minds of states’ boards of education across the nation. Censorship is a needless restriction placed on developing minds that need the morals and values that banned books can give.…
Book banning is a current issue in the United States. Many books have been removed from libraries due to “inappropriate content”. Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger has been banned due to profanity, sexual references, and racism.…