Why Books Should Not Be Banned

Providentially, committed teachers, students, parents, librarians, among other individuals have evolved to challenge the existing ideologies on book banning (Niccolini & Alyssa 22). According to the American Library Association (ALA), a good percentage of these challenges are steered by parents. Public libraries, school and university libraries, businesses as well as classrooms across the world have made great attempts of trying to ban literature on quite a regular basis. According to the executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship, attempts steered towards book-banning or censorship are encountered on a weekly basis. Banned books and articles range from centuries-old classics to contemporary bestsellers, from historical and biographical nonfiction to fictional narratives and finally from adults’ erotica to children fairy tales. This paper therefore seeks to highlight circumstances that a book should be banned or challenges and the considerations to be put into account in such decisions.

The idea to ban certain books from schools and libraries is preposterous due to the manner in which the people trying to enforce these bans try to do so in. Banning books doesn’t help with the already present problem that our youth’s intelligence levels are already declining, and neither does allowing the freedom to all books. Banning certain books due to their constant use of inappropriate language, sexually explicit nature, and all around mature content has a respectfully reasonable reason to be inaccessible to younger audiences such as minors and teens; not young adults. The banning of books in libraries is outright inexcusable, unless the material is directly racist, subjective religious content, and all around hatred for a certain race or ethnicity; not if it’s used for fictional writing, in a softer manner mid you, to express the conflict in a story and/or to show real world problems, same go for non-fictional writing that expresses ideals in a manner of which isn’t disrespectful to other ideals and that do so in a manner of which isn’t so subjectively and deliberately showing hate for a certain race or ethnicity, especially

In conclusion, I think that schools should not ban books because the books have history and if you erase the books you are erasing history. I wish that people would understand that these books mean something different that it isn’t really meaning the words in there which are bad now but before they always meant something

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

At the present time, at least seventy-five books are being banned. This is hurting our culture more than it is helping. This has to be stopped; books cannot be taken off of the shelves at the rate that they are today. The books that are being taken off of the shelves are, for the most part, considered classics. The act of book banning puts limitations on what authors can say, and what readers can read (Dorshemer p.1). The banning of books in America is a violation of our first amendment rights. Amendment 1 of the United States Constitution states as follows:

Book banning is said to be happening for many reasons. School boards say that there is foul language in some books. They also say that there is political bias in books. This might be good for some people because they need exposure to both sides of politics. If kids read these books in school, by the time they are allowed to be involved in politics, they are adults and they will have more of an experience

Banning books has been happening for a very long time within the education system. Parents and other adults are demanding that specific books stay out of the grasp of their innocent children, even high school students. This paper will be covering three reasons why certain books shouldn’t be banned just because parents don’t agree with the material inside the pages. The main points I will cover are, first: knowledge shouldn't be kept from one age group just because some people don’t agree with the subject matter. Second:

Parents don’t like their kids reading anything “inappropriate” or “too old for them” so they take their problems to the school board or the city to get the books banned. Religious groups don’t want people in their religion reading books that go against them. In Board of Education, Island Trees School District V. Pico in 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court stated “Local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books…”. Schools cannot just remove their books from their libraries. First, and inquiry must be made about the motivation and intent of whoever is pushing for a removal. The intention of keeping students from certain ideas in a particular work is against the first amendment. Although, if complaints are made about a book, the school might choose to just quietly remove it instead of making a big deal out of it. Most incidents only happen at a local level. It’s hard to successfully pull off a book banning past that. According to an article called Banned Books on firstamendmentcenter.org, books are most frequently challenged because “they contain profanity or violence, sex or sex education, homosexuality, witchcraft and the occult, ‘secular humanism’ or ‘new age’ philosophies, portrayals of rebellious children, or ‘politically incorrect ‘ racist or sexist

The first side of this debate claims that banning books is for the good of the students, and parents should be happy that the school cares about the students and what they are reading. Robert P. Doyle shares his opinion about books and how they are banned because of the mild use of language, sexual content, and text against the government (Doyle). “So, in 1939, they wrote the “Library Bill of Rights,” which begins to articulate the library community’s philosophical position regarding censorship” (Doyle). ”For the book community, it wasn’t political content so much as sexual content that created censorship challenges and ultimately brought the issue to the attention of the courts” (Doyle). Doyle is the author of an article entitled “The American Experience”, he expresses his opinion for Pro banned books using statements such as above. Banning books is always for the benefit of the students, schools don’t ban them because they want to, there is always a reason for banning the book.

So many people think that schools boards should not be able to ban books but they don’t understand how bad some books can be in some people’s minds! School boards should be allowed to ban books because some people or kids might not know what they are reading is bad, they could spread it to their friends and it could become something worse than in the book, and they can copy/ redo what they have read in their books. So school boards should be able to ban books for so many reasons and for kids, and adult’s safety. If certain books got into the wrong hands, something horrible could happen. Kids need to learn about the things that might be in books found at the school libraries. So, school boards should be allowed to ban books from school libraries. People talk, rumors can be started, and trends are made. People can spread bad things that have been read in school books.

Books are the open door to a world full of imagination and no impossibles. When an individual opens a book, it opens its mind into someones else point of view and the world that they take it to. New worlds are always great creations, but some authors prefer to focus on society's issues , and that is where banned books start. Since readers come from all ages and all backgrounds , some book topics are set in controversy , whether it is right to touch those points or if it is an act to attack certain groups or beliefs. Banned books don't always referred to certain ethnic groups , they can also touch themes like humans ideology and humans nature , in which many sensitive readers bring an argument against and disagree with the publishment of the volume.

The Banning of books has affected the world greatly. People have been banning books since they first started being written and are still getting banned today. Under the United States Constitution, people have freedom of speech and of the press. People argue that the government is violating citizens’ rights by banning books. It has been going on basically forever because governments feel the need to ban some things that are found in books (Zorea). The reasons for banning books are usually in one of four categories. These include religious, political, social, and sexual reasons (Dell 11). Books were censored greatly during World War I, World War II, and the Great Depression. The United States banned any criticism or opposition to the war or government. Governments and other organizations feared some books might endanger the country or government (Hanyok). “During a war, battle plans, troop movement schedules, weapons data, and other information could help the enemy.” Because of this, militaries often censor books and ban any that might help the enemy (Rupp). Many books that are popular with readers have been banned multiple

Books are the portal to a world where our minds can escape and be free from the limitations of real life; when in the world of a book people can experience romance, adventure, and danger without ever leaving their home. Never the less some people want to our ban books. These people want to take away our books because they believe some books are inappropriate. Despite what others might think books should not be banned. The reason for this is that banning books takes away our first amendment rights, has allowed governments to control the masses, and could possibly start a major war.

Now what exactly is a banned book or why books are banned one might ponder. Usually books are banned in countries because they violate ethics or politics of that country that they would

Banning a written text is wrong and unacceptable for numerous reasons. Banning a text limits people’s point of view and keeps them in their comfort zone; people are able to choose for themselves what they want to read. Limiting society’s point of view is a crime; people will forever be narrow minded and unable to form their own opinions, if this continues. For example, the article “Book Banning Endangers Majority Values,” states, “Conservative materials on the issue of homosexuality are disappearing from the collection, or more often, never appearing in the first place” (Harvey). Many books directed from the conservative standpoint, which is