Analysis Of Bridge To Terabithia By Katherine Paterson

Once upon a time, in a world not far from here, there are students who are forced to miss their annual train ride to Hogwarts, lock the wardrobe to the magical land of Narnia, and walk through the English countryside themselves instead of upon the back of Black Beauty. Why are these students deprived of those occurrences? They live in America, the land of the free- except when it comes to the books they can read. In fact, many schools across America exercise the practice of banning books. Since 1982, libraries, parents, and schools have attempted to ban 11,300 novels, according to the American Library Association. The essentially innoxious books are challenged for an assortment of reasons, including use of malapropos language, graphic or explicit

What is a banned book? A banned/challenged book is a book that has or is in the process of being removed from school libraries. Three reasons a book would be banned or challenged are profanity, sexually explicit content, and alcohol. There are others reasons a book could be banned, but those I listed are just examples. Also those are also reasons the book “Harris and me” is banned.

This article aimed to express the concerns and disappointments of those who are not pleased with the banning of very popular books they loved as a children. These people do not agree with book banning because in their times, when they were children, they were allowed to read whatever appealed to them. Amongst these now banned books are; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Black Beauty, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The Catcher in the Rye, as well as many other classic books. But this book banning is not something fairly new. Book banning started in the early 1990s where by 1994, the demand for removal of books had increased by more than 50%.

Another character who is like Morpheus and seeks illusions to escape from suffering is literary character Jesse "Jess" Aarons in the novel Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. In the story, Jess is a fifth-grader who belongs to a family of five children where he is the only son. Jess feels alone in his family because his mother openly favors his sisters over him and his father, as the sole breadwinner, is hardly ever around and misunderstands Jess's

When being assigned this project, I immediately went to this issue of banning books in the classroom. I remember growing up reading some of these books on the banned list. But not remembering them for being racist or indecent, but rather them depicting a time period and a glips of society back them. I wanted to get down to the reason why and who has the power of banning books. I wanted to dig deeper into the reasons why books were becoming banned and reach out to the community of educators for their opinion on this topic.

Many books have been questioned and challenged. Even as far as to banning them. But what exactly is a banned book and why are they banned? A banned book is a book that has been censored by an authority, a government body, a library, or a even school system. A book that has been banned is actually removed from a library or school system. The actual contextual reasons as to banning them is use of explicit violence, gore, sexuality, explicit language, religion, or dark times in history. On the non-contextual side of the reason why they are banned books are usually because with the best intentions to protect people, frequently children, from difficult philosophies and information. Teachers, or even more common adults, often censor books from

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Reasons for book banning can range from vile content in the book, or ideological differences in communities of people versus those in the book. People should be able to learn about a piece of literature, or just simply enjoy it, even if it’s offensive.. In the article, “Read It and Weep”, Elaine Moore goes into detail about what students on college campuses though of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, a medieval romance which, according to academics at the University of Cambridge, is the source of one of the first rape jokes. Many students claim to have been “triggered” by the romance and refused to take part in learning about it, demanding for it to be removed from literature courses. Dr. Lucy Allen, a medievalist at Cambridge, claims that “much of the humor in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is derived from jokes about violence.” (Petri). Peter de Bolla, a professor of cultural history and aesthetics, believes “If texts are not taught, you risk cultural amnesia. And if you are really interested in literature, you don’t want someone else to prejudge the content.” (Petri), taking a stab at content warnings proposed by people who are repulsed by the literary content. In Florida, a graphic novel called, “This One Summer”. By Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki, got removed from the shelves of an elementary school because of complaints from mothers because the novel contained

“Bridge to Terabithia” written by Katherine Paterson, explores two different characters and their ability to adapt their own personalities for themselves and each other. In addition, this story discusses how to over come fear, by illustrating the journey of Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke while they encounter such scenarios.

In schools across the country and even around the world, books are being censored, challenged and outright banned. “Censorship takes place anytime a book is removed from its intended audience” (Books Are Being Banned in the United States) Many times, parents are the ones to push to have a book taken out of their child’s libraries. However, some books may fail to show up in libraries because media specialists opt to keep them off the shelves. There are many reasons that librarians choose to overlook books.

The “Bridge to Terabithia” by Katherine Paterson, was banned and challenged in multiple states across the country. This story is about two kids who become good friends and create an imaginary kingdom name “Terabithia”. This was banned because of the plot, offensive language, the use of “Lord”, and Satanism.

“From 2000–2009, the biggest reasons books were banned was because they were “sexually explicit” and had “offensive language. ”("Infographics | Banned & Challenged Books") When a book is banned it has been withhold or censored from the public by an authority being either the government, the library, or a school system. A banned book will be removed from a library or school system. Most of these book bans are most likely to be challenged because of concerns from parents.

This seems like an innocent enough article at first. What is so important about a single book being banned? It does seem to include plenty of reasons for parents to

Since 1990, the American Library Association's (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has recorded more than 10,000 book challenges, including 513 in 2008. A challenge is a formal, written complaint requesting a book be removed from library shelves or school curriculum. About three out of four of all challenges are to material in schools or school libraries, and one in four are to material in public libraries. OIF estimates that less than one-quarter of challenges are reported and