Banned Books Should Be Banned Essay

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[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t is like a forever phenomena that the things, which are forbidden or banned, are the one that attracts the most curiosity and are mostly noticed. Words are since always slaying by humans and have got some wonderful work by well-known authors banned.

Banned books are not a new incense but a practice that has been done under the name of violation towards mentality, race, caste, sex and, politics. Many books even saw ban because they were too heavy to be handled because of its explicit content about violence, sex and drugs. Well, we all know that we are going to read the banned books in one or the other. So here, we bring you an exclusive list of many interesting banned books:

What My Mother Doesn’t Know – by Sonya Jones …show more content…

The whole novel is in the first person and is written in verses, which follows a young girl Sophie who is going through teenage relationship and confusion period. The novel is a must read for young girls struggling through their teenage time to know what is normal and what is not. “What My Mother Doesn’t Know” even won American Library Association’s Best Book For Young Adults award to Sonya Jones but had to face the ban after Deer Park, Texas claimed it under use of very frank offensive language and sexual content.
Take Away: Learning on how to deal with a teenage.

Persepolis – by Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi has written and beautifully portrayed her early years during the Islamic Revolution in this graphic novel. The autobiographical novel contains a rebel kind of journey of a normal young girl Satrapi and her views on destructing war after and when the Shah is removed to regulate fundamentalism. Satrapi goes through her period of being a teen who smokes and listens banned music, which is delightfully expressed for young generation and encourages family-values and need of independence in young blood. The graphic novel faced ban in schools of Chicago over inappropriate violent language and caste.

Take Away: Learning on the importance of family and

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