Reasons For Banned Books

Every year since 1990, hundreds of complaints by parents, educators and the public have piled into the association’s online reporting system. In 2016 there were 312 reported banned books. The 10 most challenged books in 2016 represents exactly the world we live in today. The most common reasons for banned books were gender, religious diversity and L.G.B.T. issues, arising in an election year in which political agendas. The young adult novel Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, is a non-fictional story about a girl from an abusive home and a boy from a happy loving home. The book is about two 16-year-olds who say no to the use of drugs and alcohol, every once in awhile use inappropriate language, and decide to hold back on sex. Some adults believe

Eleanor is continuously picked on about her size. She wears oversized because that's what she feels most comfortable in. In one point of the book Eleanor speaks to her father. Eleanor says he used to drop hints”about her weight." Richie innaprotitaly throws an insult at Eleanor about her looks. Eleanor doesn't necessarily hate being fat, but she strongly dislikes how much of an misfit she becomes reason being because she looks different than anyone else. Park adores everything about Eleanor, yes including the parts Eleanor doesn't love about herself. When people call Eleanor & Park an obscene story, they’re saying that rising above the personal situation isn’t possible."Eleanor was right: She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something". This quote, occurs in Chapter 28 and is coming from Park’s point of view, and this shows how people can view an unusual external appearance in a very positive way. All throughout Eleanor & Park, many characters focus on physical appearance, not only just theirs but others as well. Earlier, Eleanor had went off at Park for telling her that she looks nice, because even though Park was trying to give her a compliment, Eleanor wasn’t trying to look just nice. Eleanor teaches Park a lesson that there are more ways of expressing oneself through appearance than trying to look like every other person. Eleanor’s own decision to wear what she wants to wear helps give Park the confidence to start expressing himself more openly through his physical appearance by wearing eyeliner. Eleanor dresses to give herself confidence and believes that she has no one else to impress. She does it to feel comfortable in her own