Sherman Alexie Should Not Be Banned Analysis

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Sherman Alexie's book is about an Indian boy named Arnold who is very smart and loves to make cartoons. He was raised on the reservation, but now wants to leave for a better education. Many bad things happen on the rez. where he lives, but he sticks out through the rest of the year. In 2014 this book was challenged over 300 times making the top 10 most challenged books. This book should not be banned because It shows people how bad drinking can be, how bad abuse can be, and people already know about sex and swearing when they read it. The first thing this book teaches us is how bad abuse can be. Because Rowdy is abused, he takes out his anger and pain out on other people. This tells us that abuse can affect people's actions and make them do

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