Books Should Not Be Banned From Schools Essay

To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Grapes of Wrath are just a few examples of books that express racial injustice and the use of profanity or drugs. All of these things are a realitys of life and properly represent ideas and things that have happened in the past. The world is full of sin, and no matter how hard one tries sin is a fact of the past, present, and future. Such books, represent they way of living at different times and in different cultures. I believe books should not be banned from schools because they educate students on history, exposes them to different cultures, and does not shelter them from the sins of the world.

Such books should not be banned from public schools, because they expose the reader to things of the past. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson was a honest, innocent, African American accused of raping a young woman. Sadly, the jury ruled Tom Robinson guilty and this later resulted in his death. Harper Lee’s booked used profanity and exposed racial profiling and injustice. Some may believe that the racist past of America

should remain in the past, but I believe to fully move on and change we must understand and learn from the dark past. Books that have realities from the past should not be banned.

Next, public schools should not shelter their students form the wrongs of this world. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain posses profanity and demonstrates racism, slavery, social class, and hypocrisy. Schools should not have the ability to shelter and filter out wonderful works of literature because they posses themes that they do not like. I believe that public schools should teach their students the rights and wrongs of life. They should teach their students to frown upon profanity, racism, and hypocrisy and to smile upon the good things.

Finally, schools should not filter out books like The Grapes of Wrath, because such books expose the reader to different cultures and lifestyles. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck illustrates many themes such as: man’s inhumanity to man, the power of family and fellowship, the dignity of wrath, and the effects of selfishness. John Steinbeck’s book also show the culture of Oklahoma and California in the late 1930s, and it also showed the lifestyle of a farmer. Training students to understand different cultures and lifestyles proves positive.

Best selling, award winning books such as: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Grapes of Wrath should not be banned for public schools do to their content.

Books that properly display historical facts such as the racism in To Kill a Mockingbird should remain in books, to educate students about historical facts written about in literature. Next, books that display things such as profanity, racism, and hypocrisy should still sit on public school’s bookshelf, because the public school should not shelter their students and I believe they need to educate their students on the rights and wrongs of the past and present. Finally, The Grapes of Wrath and books like it prove positive, because they expose students to different cultures and lifestyles. Public schools need to fully educate their students with facts of the past, present, and

future.