Should Children Be Allowed To Read Books Analysis

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were the pioneers for making children’s literature more risky. These fairy tales were originally meant for adults, thus explaining the violence and other dark topics. After Grimm Fairy Tales became popular they re-wrote the stories, deleting a fraction of the dark topics. Some of the stories included in the copy of the fairy tales that I rented from the library include Cinderella, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, and Rumpelstiltskin. All of these are classics, but not as Disney or other animators portray them. Disney took out all the dark topics and replaced them with cute. In Cinderella there is recurring themes of graphic violence, child abuse, and wicked mothers. Most of these themes there are in all Grimm fairy tales. Like Snow White has a wicked stepmother, Hansel and Gretel has child abuse, and Rapunzel has graphic

Throughout time, countless great children’s books have been published and then loved by many. To name a few, Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. What do these three books have in common? They were all published as children’s books, then kept out of their hands for numerous reasons. Parents and teachers claimed these books were unfit for children’s reading. They either introduced topics that were not open to them yet or went against their lifestyle. All around the world, great books are being kept from children for doltish reasons. They are being censored, then banned from their eyes. Taking this literature from them is ruining their childhood; it is preventing children from learning about the world and being ready for it. Censoring in children’s books needs to become less harsh or else they are going to grow up in a sealed world.

Also, Inappropriate Language is used immensely throughout kids books. Exposing inappropriate language into kids heads at such a young age. Therefore, Without parental permission students should not be able to read this stuff. Students read it and than think that it is ok to say. To Kill A Mockingbird and several other children

Harry Potter, a beloved book bursting with enchantment, mystery, and imaginative writing, was seen as a book that promoted witchcraft and anti-Christian themes. The series is banned by some religious groups and schools. In Marcia Amidon Lusted’s Banned Books, she describes the prohibition of the book, writing, “Some religious groups feel that these books steer children away from God and the church.” Should books be banned and ostracized for themes that people can enjoy and learn from? Banned books should be shown to children to educate them about censorship and themes that are seen as inappropriate to certain demographics, but conversely, some may think these topics are unsuitable to be observed by young people. If these themes are explained to children, it could inform them about the viewpoint of groups who believe in censoring, and grant them an awareness of a story that may benefit them before they read. Therefore, books that are banned should be shown to students to increase their awareness of censorship; they can teach kids about literature, and why some themes in books are seen as inappropriate.

Strongly opposing censorship, Jenkins claims, “According to this perspective, children can only respond to books by imitating what they read. If, for example, a book tells a story about a child getting lost in a store and getting an ice cream cone when they are finally found, young readers will respond by heading for a store so that they can get lost and have ice cream cones too. Children really have much more complicated minds than that – they aren’t just passive vessels. Books are really just one piece of their whole world” (University of Illinois). Jenkins comments on the impressionable youth and the impact that works of literature have on them to prove that the youth is more mature and sensible than certain institutions believe them to be. By removing questionable material from books, these institutions in which books are banned are removing all trust and confidence in readers. Hiding classic literature from children, again, sets boundaries on their knowledge and does not allow them to appreciate timeless works. Jenkins also says, “The act of banning a book is taking a public stance to intimidate potential readers. It’s almost as if they’re saying, ‘Read this, and you will meet with our disapproval.’ It’s definitely more of a symbolic act, in the same way that flag burning is a symbolic act” (University of

After reading this chapter, about how stories about vampires could mean something totally different, like sexual relations, I’m open to think about how maybe even children’s stories, or any story or novel in fact, could have a totally divergent message than they display. “A nasty old man, attractive but evil, violates young women, leaves his mark on them, steals

J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, which have reached worldwide popularity have an effect on children has not been matched by any other book. The novels have encouraged children to read for entertainment instead of turning to television or video games. When a piece of literature inspires children as the Harry Potter novels do, limiting a child’s access to the novels seems ridiculous. Unfortunately, this is what is happening with Harry Potter. The books are challenged and banned in schools and libraries all over the world because parents contend that the content is unsuitable. The content, which revolves around a world full of wizardry and witchcraft, has some parents actively

While I understand parental concerns regarding the “gruesome” content in some of the fairy tales, I believe that there are more reasons than not for parents to continue reading these fairy tales to their children: fairy tales teach kids different ways of handling different things; fairy tales build emotional flexibility in kids (this can help make them realize that even in the safest environment, bad things can happen - this also helps build immunity to sensitivity); fairy tales teach kids the elements of literature (setting, characters, etc); fairy tales help evolve children’s imagination; and most importantly, they teach kids important lessons. Parents might still think that some fairy tales are just too scary to read to their kids. However, parents must consider two things: 1) their children’s age and their level of development; your one/two/three year old would most likely not understand what was happening. 2) Fairy tales don’t have the rule of having to be read at night (which is when most of them are being read to children). If you think your child would lose sleep, then read the fairy tale some time during the day; your child would most probably forget all about it by his or her bedtime.

Oscar Wilde, an Irish novelist, wrote,“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” I believe that local libraries and schools should have the right to ban or regulate disliked books. Three reasons why they should have that right are, to prevent young children from checking out inappropriate contented books, to keep kids in a comfortable and safe feeling environment at school, and some books have lots of violence One reason why libraries should have the right to regulate or ban disliked books is to prevent young children from checking out inappropriate books. Many books in the library are not considered appropriate for children due to the kind of language used and the violent, offensive, or unsuitable content.

Nevertheless, these books help to prepare young adults for the real world when they leave home. Clearly, we can learn many things from them, experience the pure enjoyment of literature, and allow us to escape our daily lives. However, at some point in your child’s life you have to allow them to have freedom in what they read, so they can be independent later on in their life and make their own decisions, especially about the books they read. Censorship is defined as follows … “Any attempt to suppress the expression of thought or to alter or restrict information is called censorship…” ("Censorship", article-9273576). Additionally , “In 1644 the English

For instance, the story of Little Red Riding Hood doesn’t end in a typical “Disney style” with Little Red taught her lesson to not talk to strangers. Rather the story begins with a strip tease and concludes with Little Red in conversation with her Grandmother in bed saying, “Oh grandmother, what big teeth you have!” The wolf (disguised as the grandmother) then says, “It’s for eating you better, my dear” (Darnton 10). Then he eats her! How could this awful graphic content get into a children 's story? Darnton’s ideas were simple, “History looked ‘immobile’ at the village level, because seigneurialism and the substance economy kept villagers bent over the soil, and primitive techniques of farming gave them no opportunity to unbend” (Darnton 25). With this, life as a peasant was miserable so miserable that, “In Crulai, Normandy 236 of every 1000 babies died before their first birthday during the seventeenth century” (Darnton 27). Death played a gigantic role in a peasants life so much that it contaminated their stories, as well, gearing the peasants towards survival as their main goal and or being the boss of other peasants. The tale of “Puss ‘n Boots” can support that claim, the version most kids know is a classic man’s best friend tale about a cat/fox helping the owner revamp his life and eventually become rich once again. Now passed down through peasants the story speaks of the cat as a fairy (La Renarde) that solves riddles and puzzles which

My first reason that fairy tales should be read to kids is it helps them with imagination skills. The author states, ¨With this imagination comes a cultural literacy; fairy tales often include different cultures and ways of doing things.¨ This shows that with imagination skills you can imagine what the different cultures could look like.

The characters assigned to us were Henny Penny, Rumplestiltskin, Red Riding Hood, and La Llorona. These characters, as stated in the previous essay, were related in how all four short stories were folktales, fables originating in pop culture, whose purpose was to teach life lessons. To take a deeper understanding to that statement more research was done and what was found out is that all these stories have “changed” but not really. So in the beginning there was really no such thing as censorship and it’s why all the original fables ended up in death and not just a smack on the hand like now of days. Now in some of the stories such as Henny Penny the character did change and so did the story. However in other stories such as Red Riding Hood, they remained the same, but were eased up in the vividness of the endings. Even though the stories did not change much it has impacted the way people perceive them. And that's why it's more appropriate for children now. The stories lessons remained the same yet the plots and characters acted very different based on what is appropriate for the time. An example of a story that everyone knows that’s constantly changing is Red Riding Hood, there are so many different versions of this story because as time goes by, the stories are needed to have what is called a “happy ending”. but if there is a happy ending then what lesson is there to be learned if there are no consequences? The most simple and common solution is to take the original story, make it more tolerable, and don't make the lesson as harsh. In other words, not too graphic such as death, but not too soft such as a smack

We are all familiar with Bible stories and fairy tales. They typically began as verbal stories, passed down from generation to generation, before they were put down on paper or made into a film. Stories which use outlandish situations to, ideally, teach the readers how to live as good people. Stories such as Cinderella, The Three Little Pigs, Snow White, Jonah and the Whale, Noah 's Ark, Hansel and Gretel, and The Adventures of Pinocchio include situations which could not have possibly happened. These stories may help lull children to sleep but, at the same time, teach morals in a harsh or even violent manner.

The tales today have much more pleasant ending and children most likely will not be as frightened but instead learn the moral lessons that the tale is trying to portray through its vivid illustrations and excessive amount of repetition.