Comparing The Banning Of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Supporters of banning say profanity can negatively influence the actions and thoughts of readers, especially younger readers that may not have heard or read many corrupt words. Huckleberry Finn, a book commonly inveighed for its use of contentious racial language, is commonly challenged for that reason. For USA Today, Martha Moore wrote, “When the younger reader is staring at that word five times on a given page and the instructor is saying, 'Mark Twain didn't mean this and you have to read it with an appreciation of irony,' you're asking a lot of a younger reader”. Granted, foul vocabulary is a challenge that academies need to address, but not through barring novels. Besides, if the reader is sufficiently mature for the book, they can still learn from it. For instance, some racial characterizations do not intentionally persecute people, but show the contrasting tensions between them, conforming to the time period. Again, the article “Huck Finn Navigating Choppy Waters Again” revealed, “The word is there for a reason… The word is terrible, it's hurtful, but it's there for a reason” (Moore). The racial epithets used in that book convey the attitude of Missouri in the 1840s when friction between African Americans and white people was rising. Additionally, banning a book due to concerns about the language is not beneficial to pupils because it prevents them from learning from other components of the book. “Often the organizations or schools that ban these books fail to see the book as a whole; they often center on the one page, the one scene or even the one word containing the offensive language or meaning and judge the whole book based on that one aspect,” according to an article by Adriana Lopez. She makes a sound point. A book contains a whole plot with themes that

Profanity should be the last reason a great novel should be banned. After all, it is reality, it is how people talk, and in the case of Harris and Me, its definitely how young boys talk to each other. The use of the language is hardly profanity at all. For example, Harris says, “Well you can just blow it out your butt you old cow, you ain’t no grown-up to tell me what to do. How the hell am I supposed to know things if I don’t go ahead and ask them? (Gary Paulsen, Harris and Me .7)” The words feel elementary to me, he says butt instead of ass, and old cow instead of old heifer. Maybe it’s not the actual words that parents are losing their minds about, but more about

Most schools assign this novel as an English assignment to young students, because of the blasphemous language it contains parents have complain to the schools about why this novel is being assign to students. In ALA states " a parent complained about its vulgarity and racial slurs." As a parent they wouldn’t want their children to read novels that contain so much vulgar language or do know want them to learn those kind of bad things they'd say. Parents expect their children to go to school and learn good school work not learn or use vulgar language. While in Idaho another parent complains that the novel "Of mice and men"

The book also encounters the words: sonuvaitch, bastard, crap, god damn, Jesus, Christ-sake, and more. The F-word is also mentioned six times in the book. Many people wonder that since the average adolescent uses roughly 80 to 90 swear words a day, why should it matter that they read about them? The point for books to be banned by their use of profanity is that reading bad words does have an influence on the reader especially at an age were they are very impressionable. Since many eighth grade students are not allowed to use these curse words in school or at home why should they be read them in school? If these children read these words in school they may feel compelled to repeat them in school or other places were they are not appropriate to use. Therefore reading a book with curse words may cause the frequency of student swearing to increase.

Censors typically feel as though the subject material of controversial books in the high school English curriculum is too much for teenagers to handle (Shen, 2002).

Foul language, gang violence, rivalries, dysfunctional families, underage drinking, and drug abuse at a young age are all examples of things a teen should not learn about. Children or teens can be immature and take the examples of things within the book the wrong way and use it to their advantage. Overall, this book should be on the banned book list and not be read by

When some people see the book “Of Mice And Men” by John SteinBeck the people that have read it will think “Oh that book has curse words, I think this book should be banned from young adult and kids.” This teaches kids how to use proper language and not harm others by using words. If you harm others you can get into trouble it might not be as much trouble as this but you can get into trouble. When some people see the book “Of Mice And Men” the people that have read it will think “oh that book has curse words I think this book should be banned from young adult and kids.” What they should be thinking is, “this is a good book this book shouldn’t be banned from schools. This teaches kids how to use

That was easy — there was no cursing in the adult Manhunt book. Tip #2 was “Keep in all blood and gore but not so much that our parents flip out.” When I asked if I should delete the graphic depiction of Booth shooting Lincoln, they pleaded “No!” When I asked if I should delete the scene where Lincoln’s blood seeps onto actress Laura Keene’s dress, the kids shouted “No! Please keep that

Due to the diversity of characters, each derogatory phrase used could have been highly offensive. For example, being the only black man on the ranch, Crooks is frequently called by the name “nigger”. Using this term as a normal phrase teaches students that it may also be permitted. However, using phrases or words such as this could terribly hurt someone or cause serious consequences. Moreover, Curley’s wife is constantly referred to as a “tart”, meaning she dresses teasingly and provocatively. Portraying the only female character as a “tart” is another way to lessen women. Many female readers may slowly degrade their self-confidence as strong women and could easily be negatively influenced by these phrases. Lastly, Lennie being confused and slow most of the time is made fun of multiple times, with names such as “bastard” or “cuckoo”. This is another example of the novel making it more acceptable for students to use these terms in their daily lives. Students who read this novel are easily influenced teenagers who could simply begin unnecessary bullying without knowledge using phrases they learned in class. In conclusion, not only would Of Mice and Men be detrimental to students, but it would also cause real-life consequences in students’

words in the book are not trying to offend the reader there trying to tell and story and illustrate

Then they can fully understand the true meaning of the book. “In reality, being required to confront difficult, embarrassing, and controversial matters and to learn how to deal with them does not constitute a hostile learning environment. It constitutes education” stated Joan DelFattore. High school students have heard the N word in songs, in movies and on television. They’ll hear it in college, in real life and it will make some of them uncomfortable. Generally speaking, high school students are capable of separating the N word that they know to the N word that was used in that time period.

Many teenage books have profanity in the books to prove the point of topics that the writer wants to tell the audiences point of view. The Literature today is more mature then most of the the children and teenagers that is reading this type of mature literature. Having strong language in books makes the books more interesting and more intense with a lot more mature topic the for readers. In the numerous articles, “Darkness to visible”, “Sick-lit”, and “Potty Mouth”, arise the question: Should explicit content be available to young readers? Profanity in literature reveals real content that everyday young adults go through. However, profanity should be tolerated, but monitored to a certain extent.

“The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter- ‘tis the difference between the lightning bug and lightning.”(Mark Twain). Mark Twain, the author of an extraordinary yet controversial novel; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn had a great way of capturing moments in time and bringing them to life through the use of meaningful and direct diction. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been a vexed novel for it 's a use of the “N-word”. However, many scholars and associations have devised a “solution” for this problem such as, completely banning the book, creating sanitized versions, or even replacing the book for another American literature novel. “What is so wrong

There’s a debate going on if Of Mice and Men should be taught in school because of it content in prostitution and among other inappropriate topics. In my personal opinion i'm taking in the side where the book should be taken in consideration to be taught in school regardless of the inappropriate topics even though they’re not much explicit or viewed with a lot of attention.

Censorship is not a new issue whatsoever; in fact, many books and movies have been censored before due to explicit material. One of the books that is consistently challenged is Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men, written by author John Steinbeck, discusses many subjects that parents deem are too inappropriate for students. This has lead to the novella being one of the most challenged books.