Nineteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher

In the article,” Why Bother” written by Michael Pollen, he explains how the environment has gotten very bad over time. He talks about sustainability, global warming, and the cheap-energy mind in his article. He tells us that we need to act now before the phenomenon gets worse. Have you paid attention to the environment lately? Have you noticed the rising temperature around the world? Have you noticed the melting of the ice caps? If you haven’t you are about to be in for a surprise. The world has gotten very bad and we need to act now. There are a lot of causes to the environmental problems. The main cause are from farmers all around the world. Farmers are a lot more technologically advanced then what they were 50 years ago compared to now. The problem with the farmers are the overuse of energy, erosion of the soil, and pollution. The answer to all of these problems is sustainable agriculture because it is more efficient and better for the environment.

Although this show has gotten some major hate recently for glorifying suicide and such, but we think it’s important that we educate ourselves on how suicide truly does affect us. This show truly tugs at our heart strings with the amount of pure torture these characters insue. ‘13 Reasons Why’ will have you in tears the whole while, if you want to be sad you have to watch it.

The idea of a teenager ending her life because of the people surrounding her is not uncommon today. I, myself, have had friends that have almost ended their own lives because of how a boy treated them or gossip surrounding them. Jay Asher illustrates the brutality and ugliness of these situations in such an honest way that I felt like Clay hearing these words that change his life. The book didn’t have a happy ending either—Hannah didn’t come back and Clay was left to deal with the mess that lay in her path. Sometimes stories find a way for there to be a happy resolution, but for Thirteen Reasons Why to be an authentic story it couldn’t have ended happily. Suicide, and specifically suicide in teenagers, is a real problem that needs to be acknowledged and prevented. Every story has many sides and you can never know what a person is truly going

On the topic of banning books, many parents worry about the wellbeing of their kin when placed and introduced into dangerous topics. Often fearing their child is unable to handle the true reality of life 's many undesirable events. Parents will go as far as banning a book about a little yellow bear and his friends living in the woods. As many of us go through hardships it 's just a “roadblock we have to drive or swerve on the road,” to development. Through the strife of concerned parents, many organizations try to rebel and advocate for a younger audience to read these books. These operations choose to go against parents through having a yearly “Banned Books Week.” Reading books like; Fight Club, The Glass Castle, and believe it or

What is a banned book? Well a banned book is a book that people have tried to get teens not to read, not only teens but also for younger children. This means that people don’t like what content may be in a book, they think it’s inappropriate or not meeting the standards for the age group. That’s when banning a book takes place. Before a book can be considered banned a person has to challenge the book. No,not like a like a fight with a book, but just “an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or a group.” says The American Library Association. Then after the book is challenge the library board will decide if the book shall be banned or not. A lot of books are banned and 13 reasons why is one of them. Teens should be allowed to read 13 reasons why because it teaches people that words truly do hurt, Choices that people make in life can affect others too, and it also teaches people to ask for help when it is needed.

Books are usually banned because someone has the opinion that the material in the book is bad or inappropriate. The reason to ban books because they make “people feel ‘uncomfortable’” is not a good enough reason to “not to talk about a subject that isn't talked about enough”. The classic To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was banned in Biloxi, Mississippi, which was being read in an eighth-grade class to “teach adolescents that caring for others should not be dependent on race or education”. This shows that the banning of a book may make some people more comfortable, but it also takes away a great way to learn about other’s experiences and points of views.

Book banning in the United States has been a problem ever since words have been written down, and should still be allowed. People think that since the author is different colors or a different sexuality then that was the reason the book was banned. Adults consider “younger kids” not mature or under age is because they don’t show it. Parents don’t want their child, or children, to think that even though it’s a book don’t mean that it can’t influence them. Many people also think that since the book isn’t good that it should be banned but just because you don’t like doesn’t mean that they should get rid of it because other people may like it.

Censors have been trying to ban books for hundreds of years. They ban books with content that contains different and/or unpopular viewpoints. Censors not only ban books that are considered inappropriate but they have also tried to ban books and plays that are known as classics in today’s society. Famous authors such as William Shakespeare have had their work attacked and criticized by censors. Censors have even banned books like the dictionary and the Bible. Books have been banned for various reasons. The entire context may have been inappropriate, or the cover of the book could have had offensive material. There have even been cases where books have been banned for one word out of place. When The Catcher in the Rye was published in 1951, it was put on the banned book list after a short period of time since many people felt that the book was extremely inappropriate due to its crude language, violence and sexual content. The main character Holden Caulfield and his actions in this book continue to be surrounded with a large amount of controversy to this day. Censors and the public are not able to come to a consensus as to whether high school students are mature enough to read this book and whether books that are available to the public should undermine morals, contain violence and offensive language and promote smoking, drinking and promiscuity.

Many schools see that it is offencive and have banned it already. Some schools have yet to recognise the offensiveness of the novel, and some do but haven’t banned it because they think it should stay it should stay in the public school curriculum.

Censorship Censorship is the reason why books are banned in schools. In the novel, The Catcher In The Rye, by J.D. Salinger, he addresses the topic of inappropriate words and behaviors. He implies that it is okay for kids to have bad behaviors. The Catcher In The Rye was banned from 1961 to 1982.

Approximately there are hundreds of challenged books that were either censored or banned from schools for the violence, language, and descriptive content. However, most of these books are bestsellers from children reading them and becoming all-time favorites. How would you feel if your favorite book was banned from you? There should be age restrictions on some books but not take away their readings away. Therefore, there should be no books banned from children or teenagers.

In the article “High School Reading Lists: Pros and Cons of Controversial Books” written by Grace Chen, “Among other banned books and authors is Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, where parents and school leaders in Jackson County West Virginia banned the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel due to its sexually and socially explicit nature, in addition to the book’s ‘Troubling ideas about race relations, man's relationship to God, African history, and human sexuality.’ ” Catcher in the Rye was banned because it goes against religious beliefs, and The Color Purple included religion. This shows that both parents and educators want certain books banned because they include religion or go against religious beliefs.

It is my belief that since by the time the child is required to read such literature in school, they are at an age where they can distinguish between things that should and should not be said and it is the job of the parents to educate the child that just because they say it in a book does not mean he or she should.Another subject common to banned and censored books is sexuality.

Even though the book contains all of these things, it has very vital, yet appropriate, lessons to teenagers and youth as it teaches the benefits of tolerance, self control, and rational behavior. Censoring the novel for high school students is not necessary because the students should be mature enough, it would destroy the storyline of the book, and it teaches great lessons. First of all, it is inappropriate and invalid to censor a book based on the reasoning that the novel promotes profanity and irrational behavior. Some of the content in this novel is designed for a higher

In America suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15 - 24 year olds, the age group of most high school and college students (“11 facts about suicide”). The novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher has become one of the most controversial books this year due to the recent release of the netflix series based on the book. Two sides have formed saying that the novel is either glorifying suicide or that the novel is bringing awareness to the growing problem in america. While different facts can be put into argument for both sides, Thirteen Reasons Why has brought about many new opinions and perspectives that show the glorification of suicide to outway the support it was attempting to give.