Essay On Banning Book

Essay #2: Censorship and Banned Book Have you ever read a book that offended you? Some people try to challenge and ban books because they feel offended. Even children’s books have been banned in some places around the world. Someone who challenges a book is trying to remove a book from a class or library to restrict other people from reading it, but when they are successful the book gets banned. Banning a book means that the book is restricted from everyone who wants to read it in that area. I’m in high school and have read some books that have been challenged and banned. I don’t think that some of the books people are banning should be banned. I feel that if people don’t feel a book is appropriate they shouldn’t restrict the book from other …show more content…
A young teen named Jonas becomes an apprentice to the giver who has access to memories of the past. He tried to share some of the memories the giver was showing him with a friend and tried to bring back all the memories and color back to the community. He set out to the edge of the land to break the barrier and give back what was stolen from the community. This book has been challenged because of offensive language, violence, it’s sexualy explicit, or that it’s too dark for children. This book has been removed from a number of school libraries and the state that has seen the most attempts to remove The Giver is Texas. I believe that The Giver is a good book and that people who are interested in young-adult utopian/dystopian novels should read it. I was assigned to read this novel when I was in 5th grade and I loved it. I also watched the movie and saw nothing wrong with it. The Giver is a really good novel and I recommend it. If some people feel that it needs to be banned in school libraries they feel that way, but I disagree with them. In fact, I agree with a quote from Salman