Essay On Banning To Kill A Mockingbird

The book To Kill a Mockingbird is a book filled with history, hot topics, and controversy as to the true nature of the book: Whether the nature and dialogue of the book is racist, or if the book is simply being accurate to the setting it's placed in, the 1930s. The book To Kill a

Mockingbird by Harper Lee is surrounded by controversy due to it's supposed racist language and setting. But the book was never meant to offend or insult anyone, just simply trying to be a book accurate with the setting it's in. To Kill a Mockingbird by should not be banned in any school that wants to teach it. To ban this book is to take away the knowledge and intelligence within the cultured book. Also, not only does the book teach real-world topics and debates, but

First, to deny the book due to its linguistic nature is to censor what separates humans from ferality: knowledge. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus and his brother Jack are talking about what a young girl nicknamed Scout asked Jack. Jack says to Atticus, “She asked me what a whore-lady was” (Lee 90). To this, Atticus asks “Did you tell her?” (Lee 90). And in response to this question, Jack says, “No, I told her about Lord Melbourne” (Lee 90). To Jack’s response,

Atticus states, “Jack! When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake” (Lee

90). This shows how even within the book there is no censorship to knowledge, no matter what the question or the answer is. Showing how if you censor this book, it could lead to lost knowledge. Next, the book has been considered harmful to young people due to the nature and messages of racism in the book, but that’s just it the book is meant to talk about real world issues and topics. In “5 Reasons to Teach to Kill a Mockingbird and 6 Reasons Not to” the writer states,

"It is about discrimination, racism, cruelty and growing up-all topics that teenagers