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Censorship In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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The first amendment in the United States is freedom of speech, many people may question how far this freedom goes. Censorship conflicts with the right for anyone to express how they feel. There are many pieces of literature that have been censored or even banned in schools for its content. If students are being sheltered from the 'real world', what is the point of educating them in the first place. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest should not be banned or censored in high schools, because it's controversial topics are essential to understand. Censorship is the suppression of words that can be interpreted as offensive. Due to the first amendment right, censorship is considered unconstitutional when done by the government, yet when done by a private group it is supported by the first amendment. That means there is a fine line between censorship being wrong and censorship being okay. The only way something should even be censored is when speech becomes clearly hazardous to the nation's wellbeing. For example pornography is often wanted to be used as a reason for censoring, yet the term is not a legal term at all. (ACLU staff Web n.p.). With that in mind, just because a book has something involving sexual desire does not give anyone …show more content…

In the story the African American black men are referred to as boys, coons, niggers rather than men or their names. (Karolides, Bald, Sova 478). "Neither the big lifeguard nor McMurphy nor the two black boys could pry him loose."(Kesey 18). Although these terms towards people of color were very present in the literature we have to remember that the time period in which this was published, those racial slurs were a very big part of the tongue of the time. To censor that specific language would be like censoring history, students should understand the time period in which the piece of literature took place in and how far we have come as a collective so that we never go

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They hear them at the movies, on television, from radio shock jocks, and on their CDs" (Wessler 29). Although there are some mild profanities in the book, this is not a sufficient reason to ban this influential piece of literature. This is because the vast majority of the students reading Fahrenheit 451 have already been exposed to these words. Therefore, it would be pointless to censor this book for profanity because students have already been exposed to similar or worse

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Just because a book that was written many decades ago may have bad words in it, doesn’t mean that it should be withheld from the students. Additionally, the educational value of, The Catcher in the Rye would be totally lost if a book is banned just for containing “explicit” language. Sophomore students are at the age where they are old enough to know what is appropriate and what isn’t and they can read a book that has bad words in it. If a book is banned because of its explicit content, that overshadows the educational content and the moral lessons that the reader would take away from reading this book.

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“Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance .

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Every child deserves a proper education. Banned books are depriving students of a well rounded, culturally aware, literary education because of the culture that is discarded, the history that is being withheld, and the education that young people could get through these banned books. The point of history is to learn from it and learn from others mistakes, but how can we do that if we are not allowed to learn it. As teachers shouldn’t you be teaching us how to make judgment calls like understanding that Mark Twain was a racist, but a man of his time and that doesn’t change him being an amazing writer. We cannot learn things such as that if we cannot even read most of Mark Twain’s books.

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