Banning Books

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Did you know that there have been more than 4,000 bans on books in the first half of the current school year? Books get banned all the time for not being appropriate, but on one side of the argument they say they shouldn’t be banned while the other says that book bans help society. Books should not be banned because they can be banned for invalid reasons, books can be kept from younger children while still being available to the proper audience, and book bans can have effects on the students who aren’t getting the chance to read them. From a historical perspective it can be argued that books should not be banned because people are banning books for invalid reasons. While some may argue that book banning keeps kids safe from books that are inappropriate, books like To Kill a Mockingbird and Uncle Tom's Cabin are books about parts of history that kids should learn because it is the truth. In paragraph 23 Author Viet Thanh Nguyen states “It seems clear that the latest attempts to suppress this masterpiece of American …show more content…

People could say that if books are not banned, students will be able to get that book if they wanted to, but books are always going to be accessible to anyone even if it does get banned. The article emphasizes “we don’t put playboy books in kindergartens; this isn’t considered a ‘book ban’ but merely common sense.” That just means that when books aren’t in schools it’s not banning a book from everybody but just something you are supposed to do in society. In paragraph 10, the article states “libraries must institute measures that recognize that some books are unsuitable for young readers and reserve (not ban) them for an older audience.” This quote shows that while some books aren’t fit for younger students, you can still have older, more mature audiences read the book because they can handle

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