To Kill A Mockingbird Banned

Because of offensive language and ideas that are represented in the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, it has been banned in many school libraries and lessons. One of the main reasons that it was banned in school is because of offensive words like the n-word and also because of the fact that the plot is centered around rape. One of the school board members, Kenny Holloway, said, “We can teach the same lessons with other books.” Many people agree with Holloway’s opinion, saying that the same ideas that are represented in To Kill A Mockingbird could be taught with a less controversial book. However, other people say that students are tough enough to handle the story. While many people don’t think that this book is appropriate for school, some people

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has been challenged/banned countless times since it’s original publication in 1960. The reasoning people could have behind banning it is that they feel that the racism, language and subject matter in the book is offensive, inappropriate, immoral and that it encourages and condones such things. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, a small town in Alabama, during the depression from 1935-1937, and is told from the perspective of a little girl named Scout. In the book Scout’s father Atticus teaches her and her brother Jem many valuable lessons. The things Atticus teaches Scout and Jem are things we all need to know. To Kill a Mockingbird is an inspirational book that teaches valuable moral values,

There has been much controversy over whether or not the novel To Kill a Mockingbird should be banned or not. This novel teaches students about the racism and prejudice of the 1930’s resulting in why the world is the way it is, as well as many important life lessons, therefore it should be continued to be taught in schools. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird should not be banned because it teaches about life in the past and why the world is the way it is now, proving that this novel has the ability to effectively educate kids about the past and potential impact of human behaviour.

Has anyone ever heard of a banned book? This book by Harper Lee, To Kill a

To Kill a Mockingbird was once a book “every adult should read before they die.” The book is a classic, and a great example of American literature. However, many have complained about the book, too. I’ve read it and I personally think that it’s great book. I totally disagree on banning the book. Although I do think that there should be some sort of label on the book warning people about what’s in the content.

Atticus Finch belongs to a very, very small minority. He is one of the very few human beings who does not hate Hitler. Of course, he does not like the universally hated historical figure, but merely dislikes him. This is a major theme of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird. One can never, without exception, hate a man. Harper Lee promotes the idea that hatred is never acceptable by creating situations with literary devices like characters, settings, and plots that demand empathy.

To Kill A Mockingbird took place in the 1930’s, a time that was enormously charged with racial tension. One example of this is the existence of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Even though the KKK was in a time of decline in the 1930’s, it had been very prominent in the 1920’s and had still not completely died out. The KKK had rallies and

To kill a mockingbird book is a story you should never read. It takes a long time to get to the middle, the climax of the story. It also has unnecessary characters that should have been in the story only at the beginning or not in the book at all. Lastly, it tells the unnecessary characters story than telling us more about what happened to Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch, Jem, and Scout relationship and also about how blacks and whites are not treated equally.

The Problem With Harper Lee’s Novel: To Kill a Mockingbird Almost 4,000 people were lynched, many of those being black people throughout the south (“Race Relations”). Most of those lynchings take place around the 1920s to the 1930s but they stagnate in the 1950s to the 1960s. A lot of the violence was happening against black people in the 1930s. Throughout the course of To Kill a Mockingbird, almost none of that violence happens. In terms of violence, it was like the 1950s.

Many of the things said in To Kill a Mockingbird would be considered extremely offensive in the eyes of somebody today. African-Americans were considered to be lower class in this time period, and racial slurs and even groups were common. “There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads- they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s word, the white always wins. They’re ugly, but these are the facts of life” (Lee 252). These imbalances between races caused many blacks to move north. Not only would they find work up north, but they were treated with respect. unlike in the

To Kill a Mockingbird was written because Harper Lee wanted to make a point about the civil rights movement which was at its height in 1960 when the book was published. Even though the

1. To Kill a Mockingbird is a very well-written novel and it has definitely made an impact on me. I am going to remember reading this novel when I get older, because it is the way that Harper Lee wrote it and which choices she made. Harper Lee made it so memorable that even my mom remembers reading it in High School. To Kill a Mockingbird has been talked about by some other famous people too, such as Oprah Winfrey. From Scout, Atticus, and Boo by Mary McDonagh Murphy, Oprah Winfrey talks about getting to have lunch with Harper Lee. During the lunch, Harper Lee says that she is like Boo Radley and does not like interviews. Overall, the lasting impact of To Kill a Mockingbird is a reminder of the United States’ past.

To Kill a Mocking Bird was an implanted seed that emerged and intertwined its moral views into the 1960s, a decade of tragedy. In this gothic novel, the reader learns about a young girl who is maturing and growing up in a racist environment. School desegregation was a very controversial topic during the time that this book came out. The Civil Rights Movement most likely contained the number of deaths in the thousands. Because of these past tragedies, the 1960s was a good time for To Kill a Mocking Bird to come out because those tragedies urgently needed immediate successes.

To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel that shows racism at its worst. This white woman is charging this black man of raping her. She is charging him just because the color of his skin and it starts to make people think about the civil rights that's going on during this time. The book was published at the same juncture all the rallies were going on and when the blacks read this book about how the negligent people charge the robust people, but it doesn't come out the way they thought it did by the end of the book there perspectives changed. It gave the black people hope and made them deliberate that they could beat the civil rights movement. Which did happen in the year of

I want to start off by saying that the language of the book is quite elegant, but it is very different from that of its stablemate, To Kill A Mockingbird. To Kill A Mockingbird is made coherent by the spellbinding story of Tom Robinson’s trial, but here the journey of Scout is the central thread. This has made some readers, partially including myself, to feel this book is not as good as its companion novel. But I also believe that they wouldn’t take that line if it weren’t for the linear clarity of Mockingbird’s fable-like style. There is no literary discredit in it’s release; it’s just aiming at a completely different target.