Introduction
Hook Books have been banned throughout the world for centuries, but why?
Bridge For years, books have been banned to make people think in certain ways, or to keep them ignorant about what really goes on in the world to control them and put them in boxes. As long as there have been books, there have been banned books to keep people in line or various other reasons. For example, religions ban books because they were offended by the language or topic, but this is detrimental to their people. Many other books have been banned because they depict certain people in a bad light, and those people don’t like others reading about themselves that way.
Thesis Statement: Book banning is harmful to readers because many books are banned with spurious …show more content…
Nadzri is saying that we don’t want to go backwards in terms of education and knowledge, but that’s exactly what book-banning does.
This quote supports my topic sentence because it says that book-banning makes people closed-minded and unknowledgeable about things.
b. CD #2: With all the censors today (especially in Russia), it’s difficult to find good books that have “violence in the home and school, anti-Semitism, religious fanaticism, growing up - everything a young person needs to know about at a particular stage of their development, but which parents are often unwilling to discuss. From now on, any book not designated as part of humanity's cultural heritage (and who is going to decide what falls into that category, and on what criteria?) can be blacklisted.” (Remez)
As Remez clearly states, many topics that are essential for children to learn about in a safe environment are being censored and cut out. Without this crucial learning period, children are too often ignorant about the struggles that other people have to go through every day just to
Hook Books have been banned throughout the world for centuries, but why?
Bridge For years, books have been banned to make people think in certain ways, or to keep them ignorant about what really goes on in the world to control them and put them in boxes. As long as there have been books, there have been banned books to keep people in line or various other reasons. For example, religions ban books because they were offended by the language or topic, but this is detrimental to their people. Many other books have been banned because they depict certain people in a bad light, and those people don’t like others reading about themselves that way.
Thesis Statement: Book banning is harmful to readers because many books are banned with spurious …show more content…
Nadzri is saying that we don’t want to go backwards in terms of education and knowledge, but that’s exactly what book-banning does.
This quote supports my topic sentence because it says that book-banning makes people closed-minded and unknowledgeable about things.
b. CD #2: With all the censors today (especially in Russia), it’s difficult to find good books that have “violence in the home and school, anti-Semitism, religious fanaticism, growing up - everything a young person needs to know about at a particular stage of their development, but which parents are often unwilling to discuss. From now on, any book not designated as part of humanity's cultural heritage (and who is going to decide what falls into that category, and on what criteria?) can be blacklisted.” (Remez)
As Remez clearly states, many topics that are essential for children to learn about in a safe environment are being censored and cut out. Without this crucial learning period, children are too often ignorant about the struggles that other people have to go through every day just to