Why The Giver Should Be Banned In Schools

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Did you know there's a war in our education system? One of the greatest middle school books of all is being banned in the classroom! How terrible!The Giver should be aloud in seventh grade classrooms. The Giver has a meaningful message, a story kids will actually enjoy, and it deals with real world problems. To Start off it has a meaningful message My first piece of evidence is “Some dangers are worth it.” If we do not let kids learn and see the very human like things in the giver how will they ever learn? When you tell kids they can't do something most likely they'll do it. So of course seventh graders are going to want to read so might as well take the risk and let them read it. I believe they will learn a few lessons from the book. My next piece of evidence I have is “He realized on his strength and and hoped it would be enough”. It shows finding strength within oneself. Also staying positive when there's little hope. This is an important message to show people to be confidence in oneself and to stay positive even in bad times. My last piece of evidence is throughout the book Jonas becomes more …show more content…
Even though these things are difficult we can't shelter kids forever. These are real. life situations that kids are going to have to.learn about. The giver deals with these in a.softer way and might make it more easy for kids to talk about. One person even says “The story of a 12 year old boy named Jonas spurs students to think about important social issues and form there own opinion.” The giver lets kids think and they have a right to think for themselves. To sum all three paragraphs up I.would like to say that the giver.should not be banned in seventh grade classrooms. It has a powerful message, us an interesting story, and touches on important topics. This is why we should keep the Giver in classrooms. We all should have the right to

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