Author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, shared his views on the act of banning books with the following statement: “Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight” (“A Quote by Stephen Chbosky”). Challenging books usually comes from trying to protect people, mainly students, from “inappropriate” material found in the book. This can effect teachers by making them lose their flexibility to teach of teaching subjects to their students (“About Banned & Challenged Books”). Even some of today’s classic novels have been challenged before such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet because there were
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Books can be banned for encouraging racism toward groups of people. The book can be promoting a harmful lifestyle, resulting in the book being banned. God or Jesus could be used as Profanity, or any other words that could be found offensive. Material in the book could be sexual, violent, or negative and get banned. Most of the reasons a book is banned is that a person or group finds the piece personally offensive (“Banned Books: Reasons for Banning Books”). The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a book that frequently challenged. The book is challenged because the book includes drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, homosexuality, date rape, and offensive language (“Frequently Challenged Books”). High schools all over America have challenged The Perks of being a Wallflower for its content (“Banned Book Week”). The first four books of the Harry Potter series is the seventh most banned book on the most banned books from 1990-2000. People of Christian beliefs thought that these books were promoting Satanism, witch craft, and other wrong family morals. Just like The Perks of being a Wallflower, the Harry Potter series has been challenged a multitude of times, and not just in the United States, in places all over the world. There are numerous court cases yearly challenging these witchcraft filled novels (“Banned Books Awareness: Harry Potter”). So many classic novels have been challenged and banned as well including: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, and so many more (“Banned and Challenged
Books can be banned for encouraging racism toward groups of people. The book can be promoting a harmful lifestyle, resulting in the book being banned. God or Jesus could be used as Profanity, or any other words that could be found offensive. Material in the book could be sexual, violent, or negative and get banned. Most of the reasons a book is banned is that a person or group finds the piece personally offensive (“Banned Books: Reasons for Banning Books”). The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a book that frequently challenged. The book is challenged because the book includes drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, homosexuality, date rape, and offensive language (“Frequently Challenged Books”). High schools all over America have challenged The Perks of being a Wallflower for its content (“Banned Book Week”). The first four books of the Harry Potter series is the seventh most banned book on the most banned books from 1990-2000. People of Christian beliefs thought that these books were promoting Satanism, witch craft, and other wrong family morals. Just like The Perks of being a Wallflower, the Harry Potter series has been challenged a multitude of times, and not just in the United States, in places all over the world. There are numerous court cases yearly challenging these witchcraft filled novels (“Banned Books Awareness: Harry Potter”). So many classic novels have been challenged and banned as well including: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, and so many more (“Banned and Challenged