Why The Giver Should Be Banned Essay
Why The Giver? There are books being banned and challenged all over the country. To challenge a book means that a person or group of people try to limit its access to children/readers but are not successful. A banned book means that a certain book that had been challenged was successfully removed and prohibited from being sold. Lois Lowry's The Giver tells a story about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a dystopian society. Everything in Jonas's world is controlled, even death and emotions. Up until the age of twelve "when Jonas is selected to become the next receiver of memory, his life is instantaneously altered." (NFS.volume3. pg.162) Jonas is now allowed to do things he has never been able to do as well as feel and see things he doesn't want to, and the only person he can
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The state of Texas is where there have been more requests to remove The Giver than any other state in the Country. Furthermore, The Giver was still challenged in Massachusetts, Washington, and many other states in the Country. In general, more books are being banned or challenged in the East and South side of America, than there are in the North and West. From 1993-1999 The Giver has received many requests for removal, but since then there have been little to no demands for The Giver to be banned. Many parents have attempted to ban The Giver from school libraries and several have been successful since the novel is inappropriate and "unsuited" (Ben Blatt) to certain age groups. Those against The Giver claim that it is full of violence, it's sexually explicit, murder and violence. There are also people who don't agree with its religious point of view, which is ridiculous because there isn't any religion that pertains to the book at all, except for its dystopian society, that's all there is to it. Those who aren't against The Giver claim that it is an acceptable and compelling novel that doesn't deserve to be banned. Considering the accusations against The Giver several
The state of Texas is where there have been more requests to remove The Giver than any other state in the Country. Furthermore, The Giver was still challenged in Massachusetts, Washington, and many other states in the Country. In general, more books are being banned or challenged in the East and South side of America, than there are in the North and West. From 1993-1999 The Giver has received many requests for removal, but since then there have been little to no demands for The Giver to be banned. Many parents have attempted to ban The Giver from school libraries and several have been successful since the novel is inappropriate and "unsuited" (Ben Blatt) to certain age groups. Those against The Giver claim that it is full of violence, it's sexually explicit, murder and violence. There are also people who don't agree with its religious point of view, which is ridiculous because there isn't any religion that pertains to the book at all, except for its dystopian society, that's all there is to it. Those who aren't against The Giver claim that it is an acceptable and compelling novel that doesn't deserve to be banned. Considering the accusations against The Giver several