On The Perks Of A Wallflower

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

As United States citizens, we have the right of freedom of expression; the First Amendment of the United States constitution states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press…" (First Amendment Oct. 20, 2013). As this concerns books, people should have the freedom to choose what they want to read and what they don't want to read. By banning books, our basic rights as US citizens are abused. Book banning affects many different people, from the people who read books to the people who write them. Why do

For example, some people can find certain works offensive, usually due to reasons such as language, violence, sexual content, or the lifestyles portrayed in the pages. However, I would like to point out that if someone does not agree with something, or if they find it offensive, they can exercise their freedom of choice and choose not to read the book. It should not be up to a portion of the public to decide what is acceptable for others. If we start denying this freedom of choice as it related to books that are available in our libraries, what will the next step in denying our freedom of choice? If one stops to think of why we love to live in the United States, freedom has to be at the top of this

In November of 1973 the school board of Drake North Dakota decided to not only ban the book but burn it and use the books as fuel. Students protested, one even saying, "We think it's respectable and interesting, and better than what we've been reading.” Then when some students wouldn't give up the books, parents were ordered to search all their children’s possessions without their permission and search their lockers. Now that has me baffled, if the school boards and the parents say they are expressing their first amendments right by banning the book, then why in order to express that right are they taking away their children’s first amendment right and their fourth amendment right by searching their stuff without permission or legal cause. The case of banned book always seem to boil down to the same point, instead of actually trying to dissect the books and understand what lessons the author is trying to convey to us. The book is “judged by its cover” and banned for being violent and crude. Most books I have read at least have one underlying point put in place to teach a lesson or a point of view about life, but if we don't enjoy that then what is the point in

Even though we have the right to the First Amendment, many books have been banned or challenged in the U.S. Books have been banned for many reasons including profanity, sex, violence, religion, etc. The First Amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a

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

The practice of the censorship of books in schools has been prevalent due to the explicit content of them. Parents have been complaining to schools about books that count as required reading because they disapprove with the points made in the book. If a book consists of offensive or sexually explicit material, then parents would challenge the schools about them in order to prevent their children from reading them. Censorship in general has been an intensely debated issue because it is considered an infringement to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution while others argue it is used to conceal inappropriate things (Aliprandini and Sprague). The banning of books in school curriculum has also been debated since parents see

A famous educator and historian by the name Alfred Whitney Griswold once said, “Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail… the only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas” (Webster’s). This can be seen in Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, by showing us that even though a whole community does not question the ethics of banning books, if one person begins to understand the idea of the communities ignorance the whole situation could change drastically.

Sociology is the scientific study of being behavior in human groups (Schaefer). There are very many examples of sociology in the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but I view alienation, deviance, and gender roles to be the most prominent. This movie is about the struggles of a teenage boy named Charlie’s freshman year of high school. Charlie is seen as a social outcast and he just barely makes it through the year with the help of his best friends Sam and Patrick. Throughout the movie Charlie experiences most of the basic struggles of starting high school and some. This movie is very relateable since it gives a more realistic view of high school for some people. Charlie , and the audience, learns the importance of love and friendship in growing up in today’s society.

Banning books is a practice that has been used all throughout history. It affects many people such as authors, religious groups, students, and other citizens. When books are banned, it limits the amount a person can read or learn about a certain topic. Banning books is a key component in the novel, Fahrenheit 451, as well as in society throughout history.

In the complete circle of life for all humans, this natural transition comes into existence with the formation of the one cell zygote to begin life from the initial stage of conception that goes through the various eight stages of psychoanalytic theory described by Erik Erikson how humans go through these stages of life by negotiating his or her biological forces and social cultures challenges until to our final stage of our lives that ends with death. In which, these challenges biological and social that we all face at some point in our lives have conflict between them and that has a dramatic effect upon us with whom we become in society. These human developmental stages has been debated by many scientists and psychologist over the years at what point in these stages in our life is the most important stage

Reading has shaped me into the person I am today. Reading has taught me that your imagination is your strongest asset to living life. Reading has given me the ability to experience things that will never happen in my life time. Books give me the chance to live through characters and to live the lives of those before me. So I ask why it is okay for someone to take away my right to expose myself to literature. There are books that shaped America that have been challenged because people believe that they are above a brilliant piece of literature and feel that others don’t need to be exposed to profanity, vulgar behavior, and violence. What makes these books so desirable to read is the idea that they are honest, and that they challenge our morals.

Why do people ban books? Is there even a purpose? While many people may not enjoy reading certain books, but they certainly don’t think their least favorite book is heinous enough to be banned. Most people understand that books are meant to be read and judged by everyone; One man's favorite book may be another's least. However, some people think that banning books is a grand idea.

As Stated I can’t stress that the banning of books in so unnecessary certain books that are banned tell such a valuable lesson such as in the book to kill a mockingbird in this book it has the word “n#&*r” which shows the accuracy of what black people were known as in the 1930s. This book shows you the hardships black people faced and how badly they were treated. To kill a Mockingbird tells a story about a black man falsely accused of rape, but a white man believed he didn’t do it and found him innocent. According to James LaRue, who directs the library association’s office for intellectual freedom. “‘Race has long been a target for

Considering the fact that information nowadays spreads like dust spread by volcanic eruptions, wouldn’t it be better to just leave challenged books be since they’re going to attract less attention that way? In this era, it is much easier to start campaigns about objections due to the anonymity on the internet. That’s my other reason for stating why books shouldn’t be banned. Furthermore, samizdat versions, which are illegitimate copies which were clandestinely published, of taboo books would be traded illegally between people because of their increased rarity. An example of a banned book would be “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D.H. Lawrence. This book was originally published in 1928 in Florence, nevertheless was banned in England due to its explicit content about adultery and a love affair, saying it was too obscene and corrupted to be viewed by the population. Consequently, it can be said that the prohibition of books only trigger illegal