Over the years, there have been many controversial books that have been banned or nearly banned. These books include Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Phillip Pullman’s The Golden Compass, Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach, and many others, as stated in Britney Wilkins’ article, “50 Banned Books That Everyone Should Read.” However, in the last twenty years, three book series, particularly geared toward youth and young adults, have come under fire for their candid, fictional portrayal of young peoples’ search for identity, love, understanding, and solutions, in the worlds of monsters, magic, gods, and the overall supernatural. The dark messages
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In a personal interview with John Calder, he stated, “Percy Jackson show kids that just because you have a disability, you shouldn 't let it hold you back.” The author of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, Rick Riordan said “Making Percy ADHD/ Dyslexic was my way of honoring the potential of all the kids I’ve known who have those conditions. It 's not a bad thing to be different.” What both Calder and Riordan are saying is that just because a person has a disability, that shouldn 't stop you from achieving what you want to achieve. This doesn 't just extend to mental disability such as ADHD, or dyslexia, but also to physical disabilities like a missing …show more content…
Some examples are life altering decisions from the Twilight series, or disabilities in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, or even friendship and bravery from Harry Potter. There are also some things that people use for leverage to get a book banned such as religion, and to be more exact the sex scenes. Some people speculate as to why people try to get books banned is because some parents don’t want to say no to their children, so they want the book to be banned so that they won’t have to tell their children that they can’t read that specific
In a personal interview with John Calder, he stated, “Percy Jackson show kids that just because you have a disability, you shouldn 't let it hold you back.” The author of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, Rick Riordan said “Making Percy ADHD/ Dyslexic was my way of honoring the potential of all the kids I’ve known who have those conditions. It 's not a bad thing to be different.” What both Calder and Riordan are saying is that just because a person has a disability, that shouldn 't stop you from achieving what you want to achieve. This doesn 't just extend to mental disability such as ADHD, or dyslexia, but also to physical disabilities like a missing …show more content…
Some examples are life altering decisions from the Twilight series, or disabilities in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, or even friendship and bravery from Harry Potter. There are also some things that people use for leverage to get a book banned such as religion, and to be more exact the sex scenes. Some people speculate as to why people try to get books banned is because some parents don’t want to say no to their children, so they want the book to be banned so that they won’t have to tell their children that they can’t read that specific