Censorship is also ridiculous because most classic novels involve questionable language, or somewhat violent material. If the library removes these books, the patrons under eighteen lose the opportunity to learn valuable lessons from them. A last reason that censorship is unbelievable is patrons over eighteen will most likely want to check out the books that are in question to be removed. If the town council decides to remove them, many patrons will become enraged. Deciding if a library patron under eighteen should be aloud to read a questionable book is the decision of the patron and their parents.
By reading the principal’s speech, Richard was saying what the white power wanted him to say and to Richard this would be giving in to the very thing he hated so much. Richard was willing to leave school without a diploma instead of this. White people alienated Richard from his environment because he did not accept the way of life that other black people did. Richard’s relatives never understood Richard and because of this he was alienated from his family and his own people. Shorty is the young black boy who gets beat by the white people and jokes about it.
It should stay the way the author intended it to be. Racist language in old literature is very uncomfortable for many people to read. It can be offensive to African Americans. Many books are banned from schools just because of the racist language. We just need to understand that these books were written a long time ago and that was the language they used back then.
Books are constantly being banned from all different places for all different reasons as well as from all age groups. Books are usually banned because of content such as profanity, sexual situations, or even witchcraft. But should they be banned to everyone just for these reasons? Books should not be banned to high school students and older. Student in high school are exposed to many different things, good and bad, as a part of growing up and maturing.
Both kinds are wrong, students don’t learn the right way. The bad conditions of boarding schools make education more difficult. In both stories the educational situation was wrong and needed to change. Hard Times is about a school in which there is a professor, Mr. Gradgrind, who doesn’t like personal opinions or anything that is not just facts. There’s a girl, Sissy, who answers right but the teachers don’t like her because she has imagination.
The Turn of the Screw Language, Structure, Form Sentence Structure- The sentence structure and punctuation of The Turn of the Screw can be seen as being: full of ambiguity, the punctuation of the novel helps with the lack of progression within story and makes the reader feel disorientated and finally The Governess over complicates her wording in the book which gives the reader the idea that the Governess is scared. The Turn of the Screw has 71”-“this shows the ambiguity of the novel as there are hundreds of pauses throughout it. Also the “-“slows down the progression of the book that helps with the ambiguity of the book also. Vocabulary- The word “glass” is repeated 10 times. Whenever glass is mentioned it is either used in: the presence of a ghost, being used as a constraint to the characters literally but also socially and also when the pane of glass gets shattered.
Throughout the book, there is a mutual frustration between Christopher and those he interacts with, both do not understand how the other thinks. He does not get human emotions and does not understand illustrative speech. "I find people confusing. this is for two reasons. The first reason is that people do a lot of talking without using many words...the second main reason is that people often talk using metaphors."
Instead, it suggests that many different factors combined created this result. First of all, there was a gradual development of a lack of interest in reading, that eventually brought people to be actively hostile towards books, because of envy; people don’t like to feel inferior to those who have read more than they have, spreading discontent among the masses. Also, people thought that the huge mass of published books was too
No books should ever be banned because for each book that is banned, there possibly could be one life lesson that will not be learned by the next generation. Censorship of books in schools and libraries is wrong for it limits what students can potentially learn. Books such as To Kill a Mocking Bird, Of Mice and Men, and others teach valuable life lessons, which is why they are considered classics. Books such as these are being banned for they have questionable material. In the same book introduction as the opening quote, Judy Blume wrote, “Those who were most active in trying to ban books cam from the ‘religious right’ but the impulse to censor spread like a contagious disease.
To Ban or Not To Ban; Ban Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eyes sparks arguments regarding banning the book from several high school curriculums in the country. Although this is a powerful novel for adults, this book should not be in Bonny Eagle High School's curriculum. This book should be banned from the curriculum because of the references the book makes on topics such as: racism, sexuality, profanity, child molestation and child rape. The topics express deep emotions and realism that young high school readers should not be forced to read. In a small town in Ohio, beauty is only captured in white woman or in the deep blue of ones eye.