The book “Bone: Out From Boneville” by Jeff Smith (Smith) was banned along with the rest of his Bone series for sexual tension, the use of tobacco and alcohol, frightening images, violence, and racism. I don’t think that this book should be banned simply because these accusations are either not focused on during the book, or completely false. (Smith)
The plot includes three cousins of an imaginary specie called a Bone. They are running through a desert after being chased off by an angry mob when they get split up due to a huge crowd of locust. The book mainly studies on the point of view of one of the cousins named Fone Bone who is constantly searching for his friends. He runs into a small village and gets stuck there for the winter. Throughout …show more content…
There was never a real start to banning books, people were always trying to get rid of “harmful books”, and up until the invention of the printing press in 1450, the only thing you needed to do to ban a book was burn it. For a book to be banned, it has to first be challenged and then proven unfit for what kind of person would be reading it. The reasons for ban include sexual situations or dialog, profanity, encouragement of "damaging" lifestyles, violence or negativity, racial issues, books that include magic or witchcraft themes, such as Harry Potter, religious affiliations, and political bias. Parents argue that they know their children better and that their child’s education follows the parent’s choices, which is true, but that doesn’t mean that you should be banning books for no reason.
To wrap things up, the themes of the Bone books do not encourage bad habits or damaging lifestyles, although some people think that they do. The book was banned by many parents in many schools due to inaccurate claims about the book. We went over any reason why the book could have been banned and the history and reasons of banning, and still found nothing to make this book leave the libraries. Many people have the idea that if something has a chance of being harmful it should instantly be eliminated. Reading can be fun unless you ban all of the books that kids want to read while there are no harmful things in
The plot includes three cousins of an imaginary specie called a Bone. They are running through a desert after being chased off by an angry mob when they get split up due to a huge crowd of locust. The book mainly studies on the point of view of one of the cousins named Fone Bone who is constantly searching for his friends. He runs into a small village and gets stuck there for the winter. Throughout …show more content…
There was never a real start to banning books, people were always trying to get rid of “harmful books”, and up until the invention of the printing press in 1450, the only thing you needed to do to ban a book was burn it. For a book to be banned, it has to first be challenged and then proven unfit for what kind of person would be reading it. The reasons for ban include sexual situations or dialog, profanity, encouragement of "damaging" lifestyles, violence or negativity, racial issues, books that include magic or witchcraft themes, such as Harry Potter, religious affiliations, and political bias. Parents argue that they know their children better and that their child’s education follows the parent’s choices, which is true, but that doesn’t mean that you should be banning books for no reason.
To wrap things up, the themes of the Bone books do not encourage bad habits or damaging lifestyles, although some people think that they do. The book was banned by many parents in many schools due to inaccurate claims about the book. We went over any reason why the book could have been banned and the history and reasons of banning, and still found nothing to make this book leave the libraries. Many people have the idea that if something has a chance of being harmful it should instantly be eliminated. Reading can be fun unless you ban all of the books that kids want to read while there are no harmful things in