The Persuasive Essay Of Banned Books

We Americans believe we have the right to speak our minds and say what we want right? So why do we have thousands of banned books? This is because some things should be hidden from certain age groups. We don’t want 7 year olds reading about drugs and violence because they could be influence by the thought. We don’t want you teenagers reading about sex and alcohol, because they may get interested and do something they will regret in the future. We do pride ourselves in freedom of speech, but some things should not be taught to young children. The process of book banning takes a while and sometimes even fails. The reader has to find things in the book that are discrepancies. Like racial themes, alternate lifestyles, profanity, sex, violence, negativity, witchcraft, unpopular religious views, unpopular political views, or anything that the reader feels isn’t suitable for a certain age group. If there is one or more of those things in that book it is ready to go through the banning process. To start the process the book must be “challenged” by a parent. A challenge is an attempt to ban a book. If a book is banned it means it cannot be read by certain age groups. Book banning can be removed.

This is the first book in a series of multiple, and it was banned for violence, and satanic/occult tendencies. Also for being anti-ethnic, and anti-family. The whole series was banned for more reasons than that. This book does have violence in it, and it explains this very thoroughly. But I think the book definitely explains what it would be like to be in that situation. Although, it does not have any sort of satanic tendencies or any form of witchcraft. It is not anti-ethnic, and the only thing that comes to mind about it being anti- family, is that the main character has to fend for her family because her father died in a mine fire, ad her mother spiraled into