Banning Literacy More than 11,300 books have been banned since the year 1982; that comes out to be 33 books a year (Celebrating the Freedom to Read). The book “Cut” just happened to be one of those 33 books in 2009. “Cut” is about a 15 year old girl who is in a residential treatment facility to overcome her self harm and learns about other kind of self destruction and eventually wants to get better. This book was banned because it “taught” young adults to harm themselves. The difference between banned and challenged books are banned books are actually cannot be read by people but challenged books are in the process of being banned but not exactly banned (Challenged and Banned Books). The main point that books are challenged or banned because people think that some books teach the readers wrong or inappropriate things. Many books are challenged/banned every year, but do all books deserve to be? No, not all …show more content…
Not all people who do self harm want help to make them better, like Callie didn’t want the help she was given in the beginning. By the middle and end of the book, she wanted the help and eventually got better. Maybe the person who didn’t want help realized that there are other ways with dealing with your problems and they read the book and wanted the help to get better by the end. Even though the treatment facility thought that Callie was trying to kill herself, she really wasn’t. She was just putting scars on her wrists because she couldn’t tell her parents the things she wanted to. Many other people also self harm for that reason, but not all. People just cannot get the words out of their mouths to tell others about their feelings so instead they take it out on themselves (Cutting and Self Harm). So, yes I do think that reading this book would help the self harmer to stop self harming and come up with a different way of dealing with their