Banning Of To Kill A Mockingbird Essay

The Banning of Books From The Curriculum Due to Language In many places books have been taken out of the curriculum due to strong language that makes some uncomfortable. The people running the schools may think they are shielding their children from the bad things in the world. And they may believe they have to keep the children thinking everything has a happy ending. Recently the classic To Kill A Mockingbird has been pulled from the curriculum in a the Biloxi School District due to the language making people uncomfortable. But like a reader of the book has said “I think it is one of the most disturbing examples of censorship” the point of the book is to “humanize all people regardless of their social status, education level, intellect, and of course race,” (source 1, paragraph 6). To Kill A Mockingbird uses the language to show that in the past the words that people may think are bad now, used to be a common part of life in the past. It shows a book that is loosely based on actual events the author witnessed. “The plot deals with rape and racial inequality is a small Southern town. The events and characters are loosely based on author Harper Lee’s

A teacher from Drake High School decided to teach a book by Vonnegut called Slaughterhouse-Five. But that was soon stopped when “Charles McCarthy, the head of the school board, decided that the novel’s “obscene language” was not appropriate,” so in turn he had “every copy of Slaughterhouse-five at Drake High School...burned in the schools furnace,” (source 2, introduction). That may sound excessive, but he was not in the wrong in trying to protect the children. He had the right idea to shield the children as long as he can from “bad things”. But he should not have burned the books. He could have just took it out of the curriculum, but had it in the library in case someone who believed they were mature enough to read