To Keep a Mockingbird Many books have been banned from grade curriculums and school libraries. Some for a good reason, others for not so good reasons. In multiple schools, the book To Kill a Mockingbird was banned. Many books don’t deserve to be banned in the schools system due to language if it’s educating students on real life situations. There are many reasons as to why books are banned, but a main reason is because of the use of explicit language. Vonnegut defends his book in a letter he wrote to Drake High School, explaining as to why “some of the characters speak coarsely.” He wanted students, and all readers, to know that the use of bad language was “because people speak coarsely in real life.” Vonnegut wrote the letter to Drake to
