Books are an essential part of life and learning. They are used worldwide and provide endless information on anything you desire to learn about. Starting the moment a child is born, parents are constantly reading bedtime stories to their kids and in elementary school they are encouraged to read countless times. However, once kids reach the young adult age things start to get a little different. Books aren’t about fairytales and superheroes like they were in elementary. They start to challenge real life scenarios, such as, racism, violence, sex, and religious views. Many parents and educators become upset about this content and proceed to get the books banned from the libraries and schools so their kids will not be exposed to it. Hundreds of these
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The Catcher in Rye’s setting is in New York City during the 1950s. This book has one of the worse records for being challenged or banned mainly for “profanity,” being "obscene," "immoral" and "negative activity" (Fight, 2013). With thousands of copies sold each year, this novel is a classic and deals with the issues of loss of innocence, alienation, and relationships. All teenagers experience at least one of these issues and it allows them to learn lessons from this book and witness another person going through them. Holden Caulfield, the main character in this novel, is sixteen years old which relates to many teenagers. It also shows New York City in a historical setting of the 1950s and how things back then are drastically different than today’s time. To Kill A Mockingbird’s setting is a fictional town in Alabama in the 1930s. It is on the list of banned books because of its profanity, racial slurs, and discussion of rape (Fight, 2013). During this time period, and in the south especially, racism and slaves were very common. Segregation and discrimination has happened between black and whites for hundreds of years
The Catcher in Rye’s setting is in New York City during the 1950s. This book has one of the worse records for being challenged or banned mainly for “profanity,” being "obscene," "immoral" and "negative activity" (Fight, 2013). With thousands of copies sold each year, this novel is a classic and deals with the issues of loss of innocence, alienation, and relationships. All teenagers experience at least one of these issues and it allows them to learn lessons from this book and witness another person going through them. Holden Caulfield, the main character in this novel, is sixteen years old which relates to many teenagers. It also shows New York City in a historical setting of the 1950s and how things back then are drastically different than today’s time. To Kill A Mockingbird’s setting is a fictional town in Alabama in the 1930s. It is on the list of banned books because of its profanity, racial slurs, and discussion of rape (Fight, 2013). During this time period, and in the south especially, racism and slaves were very common. Segregation and discrimination has happened between black and whites for hundreds of years