Censorship Versus Freedom of Speech: The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games is an interesting, provocative, and unique book in several different ways. Reading The Hunger Games will cause one to think about what terrible things the people, especially children, in this book must endure just to survive. Even though this book is fictional, it still begs the questions: What are the children in the real world exposed to that could be harmful? Is this book one of those bad influences? This discussion has been held countless times about many different books. All in all, while a good argument can be made from both sides, I do not believe in the banning of this book.
The author of The Hunger Games is Suzanne Collins. She was Born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1962. She pursued a degree in writing at the Alabama School …show more content…
Some of which are “violence, offensive language, anti-family, anti-ethnic, insensitivity, and occult/satanic” references. Some of these accusations are accurate, while others are quite absurd. There is surely violence and graphic content in The Hunger Games; the basic premise of the book is that children must kill each other in order to survive in the games. A case can be made that it is not good for children to be exposed to a large amount of violence or unethical material, but the accusation about satanic references in The Hunger Games is a stretch. The Hunger Games is entirely clean of religion throughout the book and trilogy. For example, in one section of the book, one of the contestants is swarmed by “tracker-jackers.” Tracker-jackers are genetically modified wasps that are far more deadly than regular ones. This contestant, after being stung numerous times, essentially is swollen into an enormous pile of unrecognizable flesh by the venom (Suzanne 192). There are plenty of other brutal examples also. Not every death is detailed in the book, but those that are, can surely be defined as
The Hunger Games is an interesting, provocative, and unique book in several different ways. Reading The Hunger Games will cause one to think about what terrible things the people, especially children, in this book must endure just to survive. Even though this book is fictional, it still begs the questions: What are the children in the real world exposed to that could be harmful? Is this book one of those bad influences? This discussion has been held countless times about many different books. All in all, while a good argument can be made from both sides, I do not believe in the banning of this book.
The author of The Hunger Games is Suzanne Collins. She was Born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1962. She pursued a degree in writing at the Alabama School …show more content…
Some of which are “violence, offensive language, anti-family, anti-ethnic, insensitivity, and occult/satanic” references. Some of these accusations are accurate, while others are quite absurd. There is surely violence and graphic content in The Hunger Games; the basic premise of the book is that children must kill each other in order to survive in the games. A case can be made that it is not good for children to be exposed to a large amount of violence or unethical material, but the accusation about satanic references in The Hunger Games is a stretch. The Hunger Games is entirely clean of religion throughout the book and trilogy. For example, in one section of the book, one of the contestants is swarmed by “tracker-jackers.” Tracker-jackers are genetically modified wasps that are far more deadly than regular ones. This contestant, after being stung numerous times, essentially is swollen into an enormous pile of unrecognizable flesh by the venom (Suzanne 192). There are plenty of other brutal examples also. Not every death is detailed in the book, but those that are, can surely be defined as