Part Time Indian Should Be Banned

The Eleventh Circuit Court held that if school board believes the books are too vulgar and sexually explicit for students which means that if any school curriculum regulations are ‘‘reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns” they can remove books from the curriculum. However, they decided to keep the book in the school library and allowed teachers and students to discuss the material during class discussions.

The main reason for the banning of this novel is because of the profanity according to NCAC. NCAC states that this novel has " been challenged or banned due to objections to profanity." Therefore this novel should be banned from high schools and libraries. The use of profanity causes a sense of disproportion for the youthful minds reading this publication.

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).

With the evidence found from the racial slurs used towards the black man, no one seeming to care what he has to say or what he does, and Crooks being separated from everyone else in the bunkhouse, there is proof to show the racism throughout the story. In the past and still to this day racism is a huge issue in our world and it is definitely brought upon in the book. The way the men treat the stable-buck and the way whites used to treat blacks are very similar. Crooks is handled very unfairly just because he is black and that clearly shows just how disturbing racism was and still is

In one particular instance, a bill was passed in Tennessee stating that teachers cannot encourage “gateway sexual activity” (Nazaryan). This bill resulted in Sumner County officials banning Looking for Alaska from the curriculums of all schools due to the book’s single, brief oral sex scene. The Tennessean covered the news of the ban in their newspaper and quoted parents who agreed with the ban, stating that the school board was right in banning the book from the young and impressionable minds of children, who could possibly be so influenced by this blip of a scene in a book, that they might go and immediately engage in the same, or worse, sexual behavior. The newspaper, did however point out that there were alternate ways to address concerns regarding the book, such as offering alternate books to students whose parents were against it. John Green’s YouTube channel, “vlogbrothers”, features a video, “I Am Not A Pornographer”. In it, Green, referring to the ban, states that “there is one frank sex scene. It is awkward, unfun, and wholly unerotic.” (Green). Green goes on to say that the only reason for the existence of that scene is show a contrast between a very physical scene that contains no emotional intimacy and a very non-physical scene that is full of emotion. In another video, “On the Banning of Looking for Alaska”, Green says “text is meaningless without context” (Green) . Green is speaking to his opinion that books are banned most of the time because a parent decides to show a school principal or administrator a single excerpt or page of a book. Without proper context, that excerpt or page can appear to represent a very inappropriate book. Alternatively, if a reader were to assess a book in its entirety, while keeping an opening mind, they could glean important and valuable lessons from

Uncle Willie was another character who had to deal with racism regularly considering he was a black man. He was a handicapped older man who worked in a store and due to an injury when he was very young was crippled. At one point when the Klu Klux Klan was supposed to come into town uncle Willie was up all night wining as if they were going to lynch him however they never came. If they did, however he surely would have been hung, but none the less it was a very long stressful night for him. Even white children would be very disrespectful to Uncle Willie and Marguerite’s

Since the story was set around the time when the racial discrimination was going on, the narrator had the hatred and fear at the same time, for the white people. When he recalled what his mom said to

This desire is driven by the parents’ overprotectiveness and cluelessness of the knowledge of sensitive topics possessed by today’s children. It is impossible to hide youth from the topics discussed in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Objectionable content includes vulgar language, racism, and masturbation. I can speak

This passage particularly raised serious tensions in the book because that’s when Junior punches the “Alpha dog or king of the forest.” Junior punched Roger after he made a racist joke “Did you know that Indians are living proof that niggers fuck buffalo?” (Alexie 65). According to Junior, it was extremely offensive. For example, Things changed, and people viewed Junior from a different perspective.

Sherman Alexie’s “The Toughest Indian in the World” tells a mysterious story about a Spokane Indian journalist on a quest to find his identity where he encounters his first homosexual experience with a hitch-hiking Lummi Indian male fighter. Through this story, Alexie is able to express the attitudes of sexuality in America’s society. Today, there is a sense of acceptance of overt sexuality, where one is able browse the television or Internet and discovers that all types of sexuality are all around us. From billboard ads, television commercials to the MTV Music awards, there is no denying that it is amongst us. Miley Cyrus performed a very erotic and sexual performance during the MTVVMA’s. Viewers, including celeb-colleague, were not too

This novel has the perfect balance for students to learn important lessons and not going too far with a description of obscene

He calls Junior “Chief”. (Alexie 64) . The text describes the encounter, “‘Did you know that Indians are living proof that n***ers f*ck buffalo?’ I felt like Roger had kicked me in the face. That was the most racist thing I’d ever heard in my life. Roger and his friends were laughing like crazy. I hated them. And I knew I had to do something big. I couldn’t let them get away with that shit. I wasn’t just defending myself. I was defending Indians, black people, and Buffalo. So I punched Roger in the face.” (Alexie 64). When Roger gets punched, the conflict between Roger and Junior goes deeper. When this happens, more attention is drawn towards the conflict. Alexie uses conflict to escalate the situation, making aware that what Roger said was terrible and that Junior needed to do something about this to exist in both worlds; the reservation and white Reardan. Next, the “Junior Gets to School” comic (Alexie 88), illustrates that it’s a constant struggle to get to school because of drinking and poverty. The illustration is a series of cartoons showing that every day, Junior either hitchhikes or walks because of no money for gas, a broken down car, a drunk dad, or a combination. Because he lives in

In today’s modern world the world being changed in the matter of fact everything has being changed Computers, Phones, Entertainment and so much more. Kids and Students are learning from this. Kids are watching, listening to what there are not supposed to be listening and copying things of the internet. Kids and Teens are not even respecting you they give attitude and also disrespect. This novel has the same connection that ideal with parents and teens Smack. Smack should be banned due to the misconception in the novel. The novel contains foul langue and sexual references that are not appropriate for your adolescents, it has a very negative and depressing influence showing teens how to escape problems by running away and doing drugs. Who wants your adolescents to know how to run away and learn foul langue as a young age? This is the reason why the novel should be banned.

This story is a perfect example of racism and hate. It shows how many white people treated African-Americans. It is shocking to me that one human-being can treat another human-being with so much dislike and hatred. We are all God’s creatures and we should treat everyone with love as Jesus would.

“The Absolutely Diary of Part-Time Indians” is an entirely young-adult novel with distinctive trait: first love, first fight, first complexes. However, no matter how we tried to convince ourselves that we are unique, in fact, we all had the same childhood with an amendment to the wealth of parents, the status, and location of the school. We all had heavy backpacks, drew on desks, suffered humiliation from high school students, were embarrassed by the clothes that our mother was buying, complexed because of pimples and our body structure, dreamed of stuffing the face to that person who harassed us, and, of course, were in love with the most beautiful (in our opinion) girl or boy in the classroom (who of course, post-factum, turned out to be stuck on a fool (just then we did not know about it)).