Should To Kill A Mockingbird Be Banned In Schools

Should we be teaching To Kill A Mockingbird in schools? In the book. Both languge and evil are very prominate. Becasue of the lannguge and evil people believe that the book should be banned. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, both languge and evil are present, causing people to ban the book from our schools. This book shows what languge techy used in the 1930’s. This language is now seen as wrong but back then it was not. “... you defend niggers?” (Lee 77). This is just one of the many examples of languge in the book. This word back then was not really a bad word, everyone said it. Now it is seen as a bad word and people do not think we should be teaching it to our kids. “Blacks and abolitionists began to object to the term as a racial slur by the early 19th century, and by the mid-20th, it was considered deeply offensive” (Amy). The word used to not be seen as offensive but over time it became seen as offensive. Once it became seen as offensive then the book began to be banned. Even though the book has bad language, we should not

We see lots of evil characters in the book and we need to teach kids to stand aginst those evils even when it seems hard”...students need to be well informed about the evils in the world, even if that evil is difficult to be taked about '' (Bosley). We have to teach our kids that there is evil in the world. This book shows how evil people can be and even how well they can hide it. “Harper Lee teaches her readers that sometimes it can difficult to believe or understand the evil in the world” (“Theme Of Evil In To Kill A Mockingbird | ipl.org”) We need to teach our kids about how sometimes we dont understandstand or even see the evil in someone. Just like when someone is sick, we can’t tell someone is sick if they are not showing it on the outside. People can hide away their evil. We see very strong examples of evil in To Kill A Mockingbird, but we should not ban our kids from learning from