Banning Books In Schools

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Should schools be allowed to ban books from their libraries? Nowadays, parents are concerned that inappropriate topics in books are contaminating the children's mindset (Powell 9). In reality, are the contents in the reserves indeed playing hide and seek with librarians, teachers, and parents resembling the famous quote “Don’t judge a book by its cover” by George Eliot? This raises concern about inappropriate content like disturbing, racist, and, sexually explicit in books leading to books getting banned from school libraries. However, it is unrealistic to assume that banned books won’t help us have a better understanding of our world, and evoke empathy and self-discovery. Everyone's hatred towards a book won’t make it fall off the shelves. …show more content…

In protest, answered in his interview, the author of “Maus” gave us a different view that we must accept the truth of the Holocaust. History is disturbing in that way (Gross). A true depiction of history, character depiction, and dialogue brought depth to the story and those minor details not only do not affect the whole moral but also show how terrifying these events happened in the past. Without these depictions, children will never realize how frightful the war was. Furthermore, it is more important that these naked, nasty truths about events and people’s stories in the Holocaust shape our world today. It is not wrong to educate children about things in the past, despite how grief and disturbing the story goes, it happened. It is better to tell ugly truths than white lies, and that should be the way we explore the world around us. Would this decision to ban books that say the truth about history make our young readers picture the World War as no more than a pillow fight? Books also evoke …show more content…

In my opinion, it is unforgivable that this inconsiderate decision to ban this book would isolate the author’s story and students find it hard going through puberty and barely identifying themselves. Kobabe stated “When you remove those books from the shelf or you challenge them publicly in a community, what you’re saying to any young person who identified with that narrative is, ‘We don’t want your story here’,” It is unacceptable to accept the bittersweet reason for the banning, and they have clearly misunderstood the morals of the book. Moreover, this book is the string to connect people in the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community and contribute a sense of identity to young adult readers. The banning muted many minority members, making more members manifest as a minor miracle to the banning (Alter 35). Therefore, this book shouldn’t be banned in school libraries and so should the next book. The banning of the novel “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas, has been given by the board members of an Illinois school district, reasoning that it contains a lot of curse

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