Koa
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Post by Koa on Oct 6, 2015 17:27:09 GMT -5
The Bluest Eye; Slaughterhouse Five; Harry Potter Series; The Color Purple; Of Mice and Men; The Lord of the Flies; Bridge to Terabithia; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Catcher in the Rye; The Giver. These are the Top ten band books in america, The reasoning behind this is simple. That if teen read these books they might realize the flaws in our Society and maybe uhhhh.... TRY AND FIX THEM! I mean what scares the older people in the world so much about this idea, I personally think that the people in poverty and and the lower class simply don't have an input on this topic. Because of this the upper middle class gets to decide these things (Because most of the school bards are made up of them so they decide to make sure they get to stay where they are instead of educating the youth. This is how people get ideas like they should go to war to keep the unfortunate in the place they are in! So the middle and upper classes stay conformable! How outrageous!!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2015 18:20:40 GMT -5
You have my vote. Book banning and censorship are absolutely horrible. We live in a country that *supposedly* has Freedom of the Press, and yet people, because of fear and ignorance, attempt to have books pulled from the shelves because the views expressed in them don't agree with their own. I read an article a couple of years ago about a school in Virginia that banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Take a moment for it to sink in that they banned a firsthand account of one teenager's experience in Nazi Germany, an amazing primary source, and possibly the most relatable way to teach middle and high schoolers about the Holocaust. Parents demanded it be pulled from the shelves because of a passage that mentioned the female reproductive system. That's right, people actually searched through all that material just to find one particular passage they deemed objectionable. I don't know what's worse, that somebody took the time out of their life to accomplish this utter travesty or the fact that their school board actually listened. You can just tell that the school board was trying to protect their position, not giving a crap about the students being deprived of a wonderful piece of writing.
Don't even get me started on the numerous churches that burned copies of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings...
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Post by Koa on Oct 6, 2015 20:39:40 GMT -5
EXACTLY, and it has so meany lessons. All that pain and suffering teaches us not to make the same mistakes!!! OUR FUTURE is more important than THEIR position!!!
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Post by Asphoxia on Oct 7, 2015 6:23:59 GMT -5
I think that it's less about how they want to stay the middle and upper classes (though I could be wrong), and more about "oh no this book doesn't agree with our ideas let's ban it". Either way, it's depriving people of books that they could read, so I don't really care about the reason, I think it's terrible.
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Post by Walkerskaia on Oct 7, 2015 7:00:16 GMT -5
i dont think banned books usually have a major correlation with socioeconomic status
but ok
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Post by Koa on Oct 7, 2015 12:26:19 GMT -5
They do a lot of time actually, For instance they said banning The Giver was because it "Had content that was not appropriate for youth" but when asked what wasn't many said that books that have to do with issues that are relevant in today's world shouldn't be thought in schools; because if they are the students may be influenced by their teachers views instead of their parents views. In reality questions for books like 1984 and Grate Expectations are vary inclusive of most political views and opinions. |
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Post by Walkerskaia on Oct 7, 2015 12:56:25 GMT -5
i guess
i love great expectations btw
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2015 15:31:47 GMT -5
Yeah, I can see your point there. The way I saw it was that people don't want to introduce a topic that inspires controversy, because it can put their cozy position in society at risk. There is no greater threat to an established system than somebody baring its flaws to the world.
And yeah, Great Expectations is awesome. My dad is a total Dickens fanatic, and we watched a great movie version of it (with Helena Bonham-Carter as Miss Havisham) together once.
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