Faulkner is best known for his novel, As I Lay Dying , which has been banned in mostschools for the protection of students. As I Lay Dying includes reallife issues, profanity, cursewords, and death. This novel teaches students about the reality of society and what could behappening to others around them, it should be unbanned from highschools due to the fact thatthis novel is a teaching novel about society.William Faulkner is an American Writer who was born in New Albany, Mississippi, onSeptember 25, 1987. William was named after his great grandfather, William Clark Faulkner.His grandfather was also a best selling author (The White Rose of Memphis). As a teenager,William Faulkner was fascinated by drawing and poetry. He then dropped out
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(Banned books Awareness)The themes of the novel are another reason on why it was banned. There are eightthemes, which are, mortality, family, suffering, women and femenity, religion, and duty.Mortality, suffering, religion, women and femenity were the reasons why highschool boards andother grownups thought the novel was “too much” for the students. The theme mortality, is alarge part of the novel. “ As I Lay Dying , suggests that dying is a relief from the suffering oflife.” In the theme suffering, the characters suffer every day. The characters are apovertystricken family that are trying to bury their dead mother. In religion, the characters aremock God and question if there even is one. In the last theme, women and femenity, the womenhave it hard. The novel concludes single pregnant teenage girls with unwanted babies, who arelegally trying to have a secret abortion. (Shmoop Editorial Team) These themes are considered“inappropriate” for students due to parents and school boards complaining that they are tooyoung to be reading this novel.Many novels include God’s name in vain, the mentioning of reincarnation, abortion,profanity, and masturbation, but, the novel should be unbanned. Although, it does containinappropriate topics, I do not think that the novel is too suggestive for high school students. Thenovel helps
(Banned books Awareness)The themes of the novel are another reason on why it was banned. There are eightthemes, which are, mortality, family, suffering, women and femenity, religion, and duty.Mortality, suffering, religion, women and femenity were the reasons why highschool boards andother grownups thought the novel was “too much” for the students. The theme mortality, is alarge part of the novel. “ As I Lay Dying , suggests that dying is a relief from the suffering oflife.” In the theme suffering, the characters suffer every day. The characters are apovertystricken family that are trying to bury their dead mother. In religion, the characters aremock God and question if there even is one. In the last theme, women and femenity, the womenhave it hard. The novel concludes single pregnant teenage girls with unwanted babies, who arelegally trying to have a secret abortion. (Shmoop Editorial Team) These themes are considered“inappropriate” for students due to parents and school boards complaining that they are tooyoung to be reading this novel.Many novels include God’s name in vain, the mentioning of reincarnation, abortion,profanity, and masturbation, but, the novel should be unbanned. Although, it does containinappropriate topics, I do not think that the novel is too suggestive for high school students. Thenovel helps