Of Mice And Men: Banned Books

Banned Books

“Writers want to talk about creation, and censorship is anti-creation” (The New Yorker). The prohibition of a book or a film because of obscene, violent, racist or any other offensive content is the definition of censorship. Censorship gives authors constraints and limits that they must respect in order to avoid getting banned, acting as a threat towards them. The problem is that society does not appreciate the hidden meaning or reality of these books. For example, Of Mice and Men is a book written by John Steinbeck, which is banned for the use of racial slurs and violence, a normal behavior during the Great Depression, the time when the book takes place, that is why it is an example of modernism and people should be open minded

He attended to Stanford University but never graduated and wrote Cup of Gold, his first book which was a failure, but he continued to write and achieved the goal of having a successful book, Tortilla Flat was the name of his most famous work at the time. He wrote Of Mice and Men in 1937, a book about two men, George Milton and Lennie Small, and their American Dream of owning a farm. Lennie has a mental disability and George barely takes care of him as he oftenly complains about how easy his life would be if Lennie was not with him. They lose their last job because Lennie accidentally kills the wife of the farmer they were working for and he wants to kill him, but George, knowing this, finds his friend and kills him by

It is a book that everyone should read to know about the struggle that people used to go through during these times and how people can achieve the American Dream by working hard, something the two main characters of the book were not able to do. Besides all of the unpleasing narration, there is a meaning behind the book and readers should notice it like they notice every reason why, Of Mice and Men, is banned. George and Lennie’s dream of owning a farm that will let them sustain themselves and offer them protection, Curley’s wife wanting to be an actress, Crooks and Candy’s dream of working on the main characters’ farm one day; all of these dreams involve happiness they cannot pursue. The scene where George kills Lennie did not have a lot of impact because he did not only break a friendship, he broke his American Dream too, like Curley’s wife did when she married Curley. "Nobody never gets to heaven and nobody gets no