Essay On Banning Books

Author Salman Rushdie says, “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” The banning and censorship of books has been around since the time of the Roman Empire, Nazis also burned books unsympathetic to Hitler’s propaganda, and now, today, the banning and censoring of books is happening all over the world. Opponents believe that allowing readers to have access to controversial books will lead them into deviant lifestyles. Some books are thought of as too offensive due to explicit language and alternative lifestyles encouraging fornication and drug & alcohol abuse,etc;(www.punchnels.com) On the contrary, we would have to ban the everything on the internet, television, etc; Readers don’t read to learn explicit words, or deviant lifestyles, we read to relate and identify with books and the authors; to gain

However, How can you put an end to a problem if you don’t have the freedom to address it? Racism is a horrible part of history but we cannot erase it from the past. not only from experiencing this but reading about it and gaining knowledge about this problem sparked a drive and a passion to people to make a change, to start a civil rights movement and it can happen today. (www.Ala.org) Readers should have the freedom to write according to their needs, interests, principles and morals because these things will be the foundation for the future generations of readers and writers. Readers have the right to be independent; they should have the liberty to choose what they believe in, what their interests are, and what they learn. The American Library Association says,“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” f you ban books, you’re taking away the First Amendment from readers and writers, you’re taking their freedom of opinion and