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 Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:58 am
Many countries and Libraries around the world have censored books. Some are for a good reason: Stephen King books should not be in an elementary school library. Sometimes govenments will ban certain books (Ex: during the apartheid in South Africa Many books written by non-white South Africans were banned) to make their cause more productive. Other times books will be censored because people feel that they go against certain aspects of their religion. Many people have insisted that other books:
Harry Potter
Catcher in the Rye Etc.
Should be banned from Libraries and book stores.
Thoughts on this?
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 6:16 pm
If it is against their religion they can just not read it. It shouldn't matter that much. Just because they don't like it doesn't mean everyone else doesn't either. I under stand the Stephen King and elementary school settings ((O_O Those books would've scared me when I was little...)), but Harry potter? *shakes head* I don't get it. Well I guess it's their problem too...
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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:42 pm
The fight behind that idea is that the HArry Potter series makes children think that there is no God.. Blah Blah blah. They also claim that The HArry Potter series encourages children to worship Satan. question
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:43 am
The argument I've heard behind the HP series is that it encourages children to worship Satan, and that unlike other "magic" books, it uses real spells, instead of make-believe ones.
But there's another book that was fought over. Mark Twain's Huck Finn . The author uses the "N" word a lot in the book, but that's because that's the way people spoke back then. If the public is going to get upset about how people spoke back when slavery was still allowed, then I think they need to realize that people now still speak in a derogatory manner to African Americans and other minorities.
As for Cathcer in the Rye, I read it for a class in high school and I really didn't see any problem with it. Other than language, why would they want to ban it? And even the language isn't that bad. I know freshmen who cuss like Holden. They're not getting into trouble.
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Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:04 am
Taht is where the adult's ideals come in. in "perfect world" nobody cusses, uses magic, blah blah blah. I guess they feel that we need to be not shown these things because it's keeping our minds clean. "Until we are older". Well, When we are older we wont care about the issues in the book, and the world will be a big shock to us.
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Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:52 pm
Writers have the freedom to write whatever they want, and when it's published, I don't believe anything should be done about it. If some people find it offensive or it's against their religion, then just don't read it!
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:25 pm
But their problem is that when people that it would be bad for get a hold of it. Like a book that has a very depressed theme would not be good for suicidal people. My friend actually considered suicide after reading a certain book. it is very serious at some points.
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:30 pm
There should be a system of trust in schools at this day and age that students will be trusted to be mature enough to handle these types of books. If banning books is necessary, it should be any school roughly below a sixth-grade level because I am aware of some disturbing and/or perverted pieces of literature that should not be exposed to children of that age. High school and middle school students today are mature enough to handle these things in a decent way. If a book doesn't follow someone's religion, that doesn't mean that person shouldn't read it. Reading that book is one of the many ways to enlighten the reader on the ways and beliefs of someone that doesn't follow that particular religion.
Since two cents isn't as much as it used to be in this economy, I'll just say I've contributed my fifty cents.
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 5:29 pm
Haha, like they actually WORK. (I tried after I read them when I was ten or eleven...) I wish I had Edward Cullen's mind reading abilities so I could understand why they think this and feel that this is true with 99.09% of their beings. Eve Devoncroix The argument I've heard behind the HP series is that it encourages children to worship Satan, and that unlike other "magic" books, it uses real spells, instead of make-believe ones.
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