Witch hunts were and still are a grand part of today's societies, they just are not called witch hunts anymore at this point in time. Exploring the 'burning' of books of which these show an idea or portion of history in which people of this modern era believe to be; extremely unkind, hurtful, and degrading to the accusing person(s), in regards to a book. The accusers can seldom make a strong argument as to why certain books, should be deemed ineligible for consumption of a young child's mindset and development, that does not often reflect that of a student in secondary education or the even remotely the general public, in which they are free to choose what they consume for literature in majority of societies. This censorship of history and
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Though in secondary education it should be all access, since at that point students are beginning to choose what the wish to pursue in their lives, so why limit what they should can be exposed to, as in real life you encounter many diverse viewpoints in topics. In Marilyn Maxwell and Marlene Berman's essay To Ban or Not to Ban: Confronting the Issue of Censorship in the English Class they discuss why it is illogical to censor and/or outright ban books due to their contents. So they offered up an English class lesson plan in which the students of the class over the course of three weeks read a banned book, discuss the plot and various elements of the book leading into a trial in which the class is split into two sides: one which argues for the books banning, or the other side as to why it should not be banned. Thus is ideally creating a constructive environment in which the ideas and history present in the book may be discussed with people of diverse backgrounds, rather than arguing about the first dimensional aspects of the book. So that this way you can discuss, for example, why John Stienbeck's Of Mice and Men was so heavily challenged along with Kurt Vonnegut's …show more content…
Even with the people who ware for literary censorship make a valid point that we shouldn't want the children in Primary education to read Slaughterhouse-five, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, since logically that wouldn't make sense due to their easily influenced nature and beginning experience of education. Although what can bring these two conflicting ideas could be the desensitizing of society as it currently is and accept that the past happened, nothing can be changed about it,since it is in the past: so that we can discuss the ideals among literary works in a constructive manner that can benefit both
Though in secondary education it should be all access, since at that point students are beginning to choose what the wish to pursue in their lives, so why limit what they should can be exposed to, as in real life you encounter many diverse viewpoints in topics. In Marilyn Maxwell and Marlene Berman's essay To Ban or Not to Ban: Confronting the Issue of Censorship in the English Class they discuss why it is illogical to censor and/or outright ban books due to their contents. So they offered up an English class lesson plan in which the students of the class over the course of three weeks read a banned book, discuss the plot and various elements of the book leading into a trial in which the class is split into two sides: one which argues for the books banning, or the other side as to why it should not be banned. Thus is ideally creating a constructive environment in which the ideas and history present in the book may be discussed with people of diverse backgrounds, rather than arguing about the first dimensional aspects of the book. So that this way you can discuss, for example, why John Stienbeck's Of Mice and Men was so heavily challenged along with Kurt Vonnegut's …show more content…
Even with the people who ware for literary censorship make a valid point that we shouldn't want the children in Primary education to read Slaughterhouse-five, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, since logically that wouldn't make sense due to their easily influenced nature and beginning experience of education. Although what can bring these two conflicting ideas could be the desensitizing of society as it currently is and accept that the past happened, nothing can be changed about it,since it is in the past: so that we can discuss the ideals among literary works in a constructive manner that can benefit both