The Scarecrow Short Story

Later one night the boy wakes up to the rain coming in the window and thunder

When posed with all of today’s favorite four and five letter words, the feeling is mutual among most audiences, it’s entertainment, but go to the other side and you’ll soon realize that people are willing to have an entire book banned to keep those very words out of reach.

THE BOY HITCHHIKING on the back-country Kansas road was nineteen years old. He had been dropped there by a farmer in a Model T Ford who had turned off to the north. Then he waited for three hours. It was July and there were no clouds. The wheat fields were flat and went straight to the horizon. The boy had two plums and he ate them. A blue Plymouth coupe went by with a man and a woman. They were laughing. The woman had blonde hair and it was all loose and blew from the window. They didn't even see the boy. The strands of straw-colored hair seemed to be waving to him. Half an hour later a farmer stopped in a Ford pickup covered with a layer of dust. The boy clambered into the front seat. The farmer took

The lawn boy had recently turned 12 years old and his grandmother had given him a ride-on mower that was recently owned by his grandfather. Although it took him a few minutes to figure out how to work this mower he later figured it out and he started to mow his very small lawn. After he was done with his lawn, someone approached him and asked him if he would mow their lawn for $20. That was when his business started. After he was done with mowing that lawn, several people approached him and

The author's purpose of this article is to show how “Cuss Time,” should be not necessarily encouraged but protected by our first amendment rights. Granted having the freedom to make a fictional character realistic, in a situation, strong language can be called for. McCorkle giving her son cuss time, she found it “liberating to watch his liberation” because he recognizes the urge to want something much more, the more you are denied it. Rather than when we are given the freedom to choose to do their os that, the real reason being it might lose value to our well being. By limiting our freedom of speech, some of

The novella, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, has been battling censorship attempts for many years, and the attempts are downright absurd. Books usually get censored for the use of explicit language, disagreement with the political or religious standpoints of a reader, or depictions of inappropriate actions. Books throughout libraries receive so many censorship complaints, that the Intellectual Freedom gets 3-5 reports or Censorship activities, per day. Nonetheless, Of Mice and Men should not be one of these victims of censorship, since it opens young adult readers to the use of profanity, a discouraging time in America, and it exposes the readers to the hardships of life.

One day there was an old abandoned house. Two boys walked passed they looked at each other and said.” We need to go into that house this weekend” the weekend came around and the two boys went to the. House they walked through the front door it was night time they had flashlights. They were hearing weird noises but they kept going through the house they started to get scared. Then the noise got louder they started yelling and stuff turned on the lights they moved on and out of nowhere the lights turned off as they got up the stairs.

So when the sun was just about to go down you could feel the rumble of the ground shake. Almost as if it was an earthquake. The buffalo bull had brought his whole herd, the herd surrounds the brothers and the sister into a circle. The brothers moved close to a tree, and the sister followed. The buffalo had spoken to the sister and said, “Now that I brought my people here, would you marry me?” Again the sisters' answer was no. So the bull got angry and started to charge at the girl. Right before the bull could get her the brothers grabbed her and they climbed up to the top of the tree. When the bull saw them pull her up, he started hitting the tree with all his might, shaking it, as if it was the tree was going to fall over. Just as they reached the top and could not go any further, the tree started to grow. It grew so far up that when they looked down, they could see everything. The tree took them up into the sky, and when they started to appear towards the clouds they dismounted off the tree, and they all stood there looking at each

Once the mother turned on the tv all you heard was screaming. The mom screamed ”look what it's doing!!!!” her husband to come down stairs. When he came down stairs he was frightened. The Dad replied by saying “We need to move” the Mom and Dad started packing up their clothes,and all their supplies. Once they were all packed it was too late. It was already in there city. The parents sat down on the couch. The Mom screamed we're all going to die!!. The bus arrived at there house. There kids bursted through the door,crying their eyes out. They ran and hugged their parents. After a while they calmed down and watched the tv. The Mom was mostly scared about its huge feet. The dad wasn't worried about the feet he was scared on its teeth. The son asked why it was stomping on all the buildings. The

Ray Bradbury uses a writing technique called charge words to describe with the fact on how he uses censorship his mood is once happy but as the story

This explains how censorship has such a present impact in this futuristic society, not only to the readers but to the characters as well. “It didn’t come from the government down. There was no dictum, no

The next night the family heard a *BANG* in the kitchen when they checked to see who or what it was, it was the turkey. So they got more and more suspicious that the turkey was evil. The following night the kid heard footsteps leading up to his room, when all of a sudden the door opens and the turkey appears, but when it sees that the kid saw him it runs away. In the morning the kid tells his dad what happened and the dad makes a hard decision, but he decides it is the best and makes a giant turkey

There once was a boy named leafy who loved riding his bike. one day he was riding around and out of nowhere he hit a penny on the ground while he was braking. It made the back tire slide out and he fell. When he got back up he noticed that the penny was face up. He put it in his pocket and kept riding. As he turned the corner to his house he heard a noise as he looked back before he could see it there was a crow chasing him. he pedaled as fast as he could then an ally came. he crossed without looking and BOOM! Leafy was hit by a car. Leafy died in the hospital the next day. The next Friday was his funeral. when they were done they got to carrying the coffin. when they were carrying the coffin they said they could hear something but they thought

In the Western World, “Banned Books Week” is a relatively new quasi-holiday celebrated each year in late September. For the duration of the week, people are encouraged to read and learn about books that have been challenged or banned for their content, be it slightly controversial or downright blasphemous. For the first time in history, controversial books are beginning to be celebrated for their thought-provoking nature rather than shunned for their risqué content. Over the years, some of the most critically acclaimed classics, including J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, have been banned for reasons ranging from foul language, to overt sexual and violent themes, to references to the occult (“Banned”).

In Iran, where church and state arent separate and there are strict rules opposing men and women being alone together, the author has a hard time writing a love story. In order to do so he uses a technique called self censorship with the use of the effect “strikethrough”. The strikethrough, a way of censoring, allows the reader to still see the writing. In Censoring an Iranian Love Story, the author writes the love story he intended to write, but uses the strikethrough censors any text that is remotely sexually suggestive and could receive harsh criticism. Furthermore, Mandanipour not only censors “inappropriate” parts of the story, but he also only emboldens parts of the story.