Profanity In Literature

Profane language describes a vulgar behavior that is intensely offensive because it shows lack of respect. Profanity mainly arises in tv shows, movies, and books. It is a shocking that even books use profanity because books are usually suppose to be educational that teaches good behavior. However, a majority of people believe the use of profanity in books is acceptable. When these type of books are exposed to high school students, many parents complain about it their children learning profane language through books. Parents complain about these books teaching their child amateurish words because they do not want their children to learn these words and get influenced by these devastating words. These words promote negativity within students

For instance, profane language influences high school students to involve in bad habits. Some examples of bad habits could be drugs, cheating, speak rudely, have no manners, etc. Drugs are one of the most well known bad habits that a high school student would do. Drugs could cause a harmful pain to one's health which could later lead to many diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, hepatitis, etc. Madeline Franklin, a writer of an article mentions, "In a perfect world, kids would always do what they are told. However, this world being far from perfect, kids decided to simply find another place to smoke, the one place where there was no supervision: the bathrooms!" High school students tend to fall under these kind of intentions and they find their own ways to continue doing drugs. These bad habits come from profane language because profanity is a very influential topic. Franklin talks about a very factual point about students going to the bathroom to smoke. This behavior is promoted through the words they learn from social media or books or even adults at

Students make profane language into violence because their behavior changes to anger issues. The main causes of profane language come from the books students read or the adults students are surrounded by or social media. An article titled, Introduce to School Violence: Current Controversies mention, "Experts across various fields maintain that violent movies and video games , poverty, bullying , single-parent families, lack of mental health services, and out-of-control kids all contribute to the school "killing fields" landscape." This statement is very correct because all these influences come from the language a student learns. Similarly, if a student learns profane language, then the student will definitely have some kind of anger issue which will lead to violence. This kind of behavior mainly occurs in high schools because as students gets older they are exposed to certain things such as books with