Why The Book Perils By Toni Morrison

In “BURN THIS BOOK - “peril” ” Toni Morrison contends that the art or work of a writer should be protected from the constant censorship and other forms of similar prosecution that they must face as a part of their job. This prosecution is believed by the author to be the writers peril. The regimes ran by dictators and authoritarians alike would never relinquish their control over the media and use methods that may range from censorship to absolute slaughter and violence in the process of silencing the writers. Writers, aware of this do so at their own risk and those with strict control over the media never allow such unmonitored writing to exist that would disturb the system in place. This peril that plagues writers also remains to have an effect and become a corresponding peril to the innocent civilians of society. When writers are to be censored for their work our peril is the existence that is the result of that which is dismal and bleak due to such a deprivation of something
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