Why Is Gossip Girl Banned

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Gossip Girl Imagine having a girl who has ruined your life return to you school to try and ruin it some more. Well in the book Gossip Girl, the main character Blair has a so called “friend” who is trying to have all of the attention on her and will make everyone’s lives miserable to get it. The puritans would oppose the book Gossip Girl because it includes inappropriate clothing, law breaking characters, and the characters living sinful lives. The puritans would ban the book Gossip Girl because of the inappropriate clothing. In the book, the main character Blair and her friends are wearing clothes that would be very frowned on to the puritans. The girls wear dresses that come above their knees. They also wear low cut shirts described in the book. One character called Nate wears sweater vests that are brightly colored. The puritans would wear plain colors such as gray or brown or black. The way the teenage characters dressed would also be frowned on because of the low cut shirts. The puritan girls would wear dresses that covered the whole chest area not revealing anything like the shirts worn in Gossip Girl. …show more content…

The characters in Gossip Girl were doing some underage drinking. On of the sentences in the book states how their parents said, “If the kids are more exposed to alcohol, they’re less likely to abuse it later on.” The puritans would definitely oppose of this book for all of the alcohol references. Gossip Girl also included some references to drugs. The parties the girls go to have a variety of drugs that some of the girls get peer pressured into doing. Another law breaking quality of the characters is getting into parties without their parents permission. The puritans would be sinning if they read a book about these characters and their

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