Argumentative Essay: The Banning Of Books

The banning of books has been a terrible part of history since the beginning of printing and distributing of literature. Censorship is brought about by too much control and fear. This means that the author's freedom of expression was destroyed, their work is not allowed to be viewed. I believe that censorship should not be allowed, as many of the reasons that books are banned are silly. The reason books are banned ranges greatly; and the people who do the banning are even more numerous. Some examples of reasons books are banned are that they contained graphic language, were too violent, encouraged homosexuality, and even more common was that they conflicted the values of the communist. A book I read and did a project on in middle school was banned by the Nazi Germany. That book was The Call of the Wild by Jack London and was written in 1903. It was banned because it was considered "too radical." The book is …show more content…
He wrote many great pieces, one of which is The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn in 1884. The novel was banned though due to being racially offensive. The setting for the book is the deep south in roughly 1840. Racism was very present in these times, so the book was certainty going to contain those themes. The book is said to contain racial slurs, but in that time, that was the vernacular, so I do not see a problem with it. The novel is more of a fictional window of the time period and the things that were going on in it. In the book, the main character, Huck, runs away with a slave boy named Jim. The two of them grow a bond and go on many adventures together on their raft. They even gain a few others with them. They gained a 30 year old guy who is said to be the long-lost son of an English duke, and an older man who claims he id the Lost Dauphin and should be the king of France. The book is fine to be in the class rooms, in my opinion, but possibly for the more mature groups so that the themes can be discussed