Effects Of Censorship On Teenage Literature

The Effects of Censoring Adolescent Literature
“Book bans serve only to shame children and heighten their curiosity. Intellectual freedom advocates share this viewpoint. The responses from both children and adult experts point to a paradox arising from the act of restricting access to materials. Items are restricted to prevent children from reading, viewing, or listening to them, but the restrictions ultimately increase children’s curiosity and desire for the restricted material” (Isajlovic-Terry, and Mckechnie ). For years people like parents, government officials, and all authoritative figures have tried to protect adolescent children from corruption of all kinds. They heavily attempt to steer them away from all of the bad or wrong things. However, it feels like the more that teens are told what not to do, they just go ahead and …show more content…
Culture also plays a part in teenage behavior as they grow up. According to Gerard Bradley, “Culture is the byproduct of so many human choices and acts. People do not usually act for the purpose of making a culture; they simply choose and act and speak and join. When they do so, they effectively build a culture. When they are done, they leave behind a culture.” The influence of a culture could be very strong because of the amount of time one practices their traditions. Because of the practice of traditions for a prolonged amount of time, one’s free will and thinking could be overpowered as a result. Bradley finishes the quote by saying, “But morally significant free choice cannot be eradicated by culture; choosing is a fact about persons which persons are incapable of choosing to obliterate. Where a culture is organized around the denial of that freedom, one sees a grotesque deformation of freedom. The choosing and acting person operates as if in trance…” (Bradley). This mean that rebels will emerge if a culture eventually becomes extremely