To Kill A Mocking Bird Should Be Banned Essay

In a few areas a great book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and many books like it are being banned. To Kill a Mockingbird is a very informative book on what life was like in the 1930’s, but it is still being banned for strong language, “strong content”, and strong cases of racism. Many schools have had kids read that book, but because of recent events a few have started to ban it. Some people believe that they can teach messages like the ones taught from this book, but in a better way, so they make it more suitable for kids to read. Some citizens feel that kids should be introduced to strong topics like this when they are in around 8th grade, which is a very common time for schools to have children/teens to read this novel in school, because kids need to be prepared for the real world early on. To Kill a Mockingbird is a very …show more content…
Educators teach about the 1930’s and students learn about it, and those books aren’t banned, and they teach similar things, but word them in a more pleasant way. Students read many books in school regarding the time period of the 1930’s, but To Kill A Mockingbird isn’t okay for children to read because of the language, which again has many resolutions. It is a very informative book about the conditions of the 1930’s, and how bad racism really was, compared to now. This book can show the people of this century what discrimination really was, and give them a perspective on how bad conditions truly were, so why is it still being banned? Kids don’t notice the history and the insight that they can get from this book, and they are more concerned with the fact that the book has unpleasant topics. To Kill A Mockingbird isn’t an unpleasant book, it may have bad parts, but it is realistic and has an exceptional plot. You shouldn’t judge a book from the bad parts of it, you should judge it by the message being