Reasons For The Banning Of We All Fall Down By Robert Cormier

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Books are banned by schools/ associations. One specific book that I have read is We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier. Books can be banned for nine common reasons these are racial issues, encouragement of damaging life’s, blasphemous, dialogue, sexual situations or dialogue, violence/ negativity, presence of witchcraft, religious afflictions, political bias, and age inappropriate. There are many more reasons in which books can be banned for, my book is banned for vandalism, revenge, and alcoholism. By examining the alcoholism, profanity, and vandalism, it is clear that this books should be banned.
It is evident that this book has vandalism, for that is what most of this book is about. The very beginning of the book is about vandalism. The reasons

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