Being A Wallflower Banned
Description: This MLCP asks me to study banned books. The books I decided to study is The
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and The Handmaid's Tale , Margaret Atwood , which are some of the most popularly controversial books in the U.S. I studied the cities in which the banned books took place. In Glen Ellyn, Illinois The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
Stephen Chobsky was brought up as an issue in Hadley Junior High School for being too obscene and explicit. The book is a coming of age story about a boy named Charlie who is transitioning from middle to high school and delves into the topic of abuse, homosexuality, bestiality, alcohol abuse, and overall stereotypical high school lives (Sparknotes). This issue was brought up after Jen and Brian Bradfield the …show more content…
Because of dangerously low reproduction rates, Handmaids are assigned to bear children for elite couples that have trouble conceiving” (Sparknotes). The thoughts concerning the ban was two sided.
Parents saw it full of sex and sexual allusions, sadistic pornography, prostitution, attacks on christian faith, and full of profanity. Some students thought it was not fair to ban it stating "if we do ban The Handmaid's Tale because of sexual content, then why not ban Huckleberry Finn for racism? Why not ban The Crucible for witchcraft? Why not ban The Things They Carried for violence, and why not ban the Bible and argue separation of church and state," (Associated
Press). In regards to those who supported the banning “superintendent Ed Lyman says he found some of the descriptions in the book too sexually explicit for high school students. That -- he says -- doesn't support state efforts to encourage sexual abstinence outside marriage.”
Everyone had opposing sides but eventually the ban was put in place (and later revoked).
These complaints eventually lead to Advanced Placement English classes to remove it from the
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and The Handmaid's Tale , Margaret Atwood , which are some of the most popularly controversial books in the U.S. I studied the cities in which the banned books took place. In Glen Ellyn, Illinois The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
Stephen Chobsky was brought up as an issue in Hadley Junior High School for being too obscene and explicit. The book is a coming of age story about a boy named Charlie who is transitioning from middle to high school and delves into the topic of abuse, homosexuality, bestiality, alcohol abuse, and overall stereotypical high school lives (Sparknotes). This issue was brought up after Jen and Brian Bradfield the …show more content…
Because of dangerously low reproduction rates, Handmaids are assigned to bear children for elite couples that have trouble conceiving” (Sparknotes). The thoughts concerning the ban was two sided.
Parents saw it full of sex and sexual allusions, sadistic pornography, prostitution, attacks on christian faith, and full of profanity. Some students thought it was not fair to ban it stating "if we do ban The Handmaid's Tale because of sexual content, then why not ban Huckleberry Finn for racism? Why not ban The Crucible for witchcraft? Why not ban The Things They Carried for violence, and why not ban the Bible and argue separation of church and state," (Associated
Press). In regards to those who supported the banning “superintendent Ed Lyman says he found some of the descriptions in the book too sexually explicit for high school students. That -- he says -- doesn't support state efforts to encourage sexual abstinence outside marriage.”
Everyone had opposing sides but eventually the ban was put in place (and later revoked).
These complaints eventually lead to Advanced Placement English classes to remove it from the