Banned Book Paper
As defined in “A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials.” Banned Books Week is celebrated september twenty-fourth through the thirtieth. On this week, people commoderate the thousands of books that are banned or challenged from libraries across America for various reasons. From being “age inappropriate” to having “too much violence” and even political bias, books are banned for whatever reason someone deems children should be censored to.
As stated in about the history of Banned Books Week, “Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books.” Although this was a big reason to start Banned Books Week it was not the only one. A viewpoint against challenging books is it goes against our first amendment. How can we have in our Constitution the right to freedom of religion, speech, and the press, when the work of authors are getting pulled off library shelves for these exact reasons? Shouldn't anyone be able to publish what they want if it's their right to do so? Another problem with banning books involved the reasons why they were …show more content…
In the book, Asher writes about a highschool girl who recently committed suicide. Her classmate Clay receives seven cassettes, and when he listens to them he discovers that before she killed herself, Hannah recorded thirteen reasons saying why she committed suicide. The cassettes have two rules to them, the first is you must listen to all the tapes and the second is after you're done you mail the tapes to the person who is after you on Hannah's list. Failure to comply to the rules would mean the tapes would get leaked to everyone in town. When Clay discovers he is one of the reasons, he spends the night listening to all of Hannah's tapes and uncovers the truth behind Hannah's
As defined in “A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials.” Banned Books Week is celebrated september twenty-fourth through the thirtieth. On this week, people commoderate the thousands of books that are banned or challenged from libraries across America for various reasons. From being “age inappropriate” to having “too much violence” and even political bias, books are banned for whatever reason someone deems children should be censored to.
As stated in about the history of Banned Books Week, “Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books.” Although this was a big reason to start Banned Books Week it was not the only one. A viewpoint against challenging books is it goes against our first amendment. How can we have in our Constitution the right to freedom of religion, speech, and the press, when the work of authors are getting pulled off library shelves for these exact reasons? Shouldn't anyone be able to publish what they want if it's their right to do so? Another problem with banning books involved the reasons why they were …show more content…
In the book, Asher writes about a highschool girl who recently committed suicide. Her classmate Clay receives seven cassettes, and when he listens to them he discovers that before she killed herself, Hannah recorded thirteen reasons saying why she committed suicide. The cassettes have two rules to them, the first is you must listen to all the tapes and the second is after you're done you mail the tapes to the person who is after you on Hannah's list. Failure to comply to the rules would mean the tapes would get leaked to everyone in town. When Clay discovers he is one of the reasons, he spends the night listening to all of Hannah's tapes and uncovers the truth behind Hannah's