They should at least know what these things are, and the book does NOT advocate drug use, it only touches upon it a couple of times, with references to marijuana and lysergic acid diethylamide (street names are LSD, or acid) one in which he says “I decided to never take LSD again.” A statement, which is, in fact, promoting anti-drug use, and we’re all pretty sure that’s what our government and school boards want (Red Ribbon Week, what a joke). The mild violence in the book is just mentioning a past fight and one actual fight scene, and today’s kids see that in person at least once a week at school. Look back at the facts, violence is all around us. Our world is full of
When it comes to what children are reading, people only think of the bad things and what the book is about. They don’t look at how it could possibly benefit them! I think that students should be able to read books that appeal to their beliefs and culture. It could help them learn more about themselves and their religion; they can’t do that if those books are banned from school libraries and bookstores! Book banning has been going on for the past two thousand years but people still read those books!
The literature most likely talks bad about the government. Montag is curious to learn why the government does not want citizens to read. Most people understand that certain literature must contain something that is not appropriate for the common people. Some rebellious people go against the government and try to figure out what these violating books
The outcome of this case states that “the First Amendment imposes limitations upon a local school board's exercise of its discretion to remove books from high school and junior high school libraries” (Island Trees School District v. Pico). These court cases have greatly decreased the amount of power people have to prevent book banning, but there was a time where opposition to book banning
“Censorship Arguments in ‘Take the Tortillas out of Your Poetry’” Many writers in the past and even today have struggled to express their ethnic values in their writing because of the act of censorship. Censorship is the suppression of writing to accommodate the common good. Not only are the writers unable to express their values, but this act also neglects the readers from knowing and learning these values. In Rudolfo Anaya’s essay “Take the Tortillas out of Your Poetry” he makes valid arguments against this act of censorship. He uses many different methods to achieve this such as symbolism and specific events that have affected multicultural writers.
Due to triviality of this book being banned in NYC public schools, we’ve decided to vote on this issue on the show. If you think this decision actually is important, more schools are turning to different books for their literature throughout the year, and not this book. So I now ask the studio audience to vote Yes or No in regards as to whether or not this book should be banned from public schools. (Depending on the voting results, there will be alternate endings. If the book is banned, the superintendent would speak, and if the book isn’t banned, Pony Boy will speak) O: Okay.
However, by presenting both sides of the argument one can understand the reasons why it shouldn’t be read and why it should be read. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, should not be read because of the racist, harsh, and critical language in the book. However, it should be read because it helps teach personal morals and judgments, as well as important themes like friendship or love. You can never “candy-coat” material to protect teens from reading such material. Sooner or later they will have to find out.
Thankfully, in the court hearing 3and seek by their removal to ‘prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion’” (qtd. in Supreme.justia.com) However, this does not stop school boards from removing books from shelves completely. If a school board can defend itself as to why they decided to ban a certain book in a way that doesn’t seem opinion based, then that book can remain
As an American citizen, I have the freedom of speech, while in other countries, some people face censorship issues. The issue of “freedom of speech” and its’ importance had never really crossed my mind until I learned about the Banned Books List. This is a list of certain literary works which have been banned by governments for having sensitive topics, or for having information which is looked down upon by certain people. Rather than just avoiding the books themselves, they find it necessary to keep the literature hidden from the general public in an effort to “protect” the people from these “negative” works. Whenever I feel as though there are constraints present, whether mental or physical, writing always seems to give me the ability to clear my head and organize my thoughts, which is what eventually led to writing becoming my main method of stress relief; along with playing music.
An activist named Catharine MacKinnon contributed an amicus curiae brief to the proceedings, and has since stated that the government neglected to raise all the relevant issues in the case. She has also campaigned for laws to stop pornography. MacKinnon claims, in general, that pornography is violence. In this particular case, she argued to the court that the Baker pornography was the threat of violence. To back up her argument about his intentions, she used excerpts from his E-mail correspondence with a like-minded young man in Canada.