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    Outsiders Life Lessons

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    All great books and literature are filled with a new understanding for the reader. Books are the not only for pleasure, but for learning. It makes people experience perspectives that they couldn't on our own. In the books read in 7th grade there were the life lessons in the themes of courage, death, and friendship. Many novels have some sort of death that changes a character. In The Outsiders many people die: Johnny gets killed in tragedy by a burning fire trying to save kids in a burning…

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    Why Are Books Banned

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    Why are books banned? Why are books banned or challenged? There are many ways a book can be challenged or banned. A book can be banned or challenged by violence or negativity which means that books that include violence are censored. Some books have been deemed for negative or depressing features. As well as being banned by the profanity, racial issues. By examining the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, and reading over the racial issues and the work of violence that is implemented into this book, I…

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    Banned Book Should people be allowed to rate a book because they feel it is not appropriate for a certain age group? Whether it goes against your religion , view of violence, drugs and deaths, the book has the right to be sold and read by the people around the world. The book should save a section of the book that warn the reader of which ages that will be able to handle it. But nobody should be able to censor a book because it takes away freedom of speech. Religion is one of the top reasons…

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    Fahrenheit 451 Persuasive

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    not going to read books anymore in metaphorically. Importance of books has been mentioned since people had invented writing skill. Do books deserve to be saved? If so, why do we need to save books? Answer always going to be ‘yes, because books are sources where we can get knowledge from.’ There is similar story with this book in china called Burning of books and burying of scholars. After the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi unified China in 221 BC; he banned reading books and burned it…

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    schools, then there are many meetings deciding whether the book should be banned or should stay. Challenging and banning books is a very popular matter now, with many eager to support, and some trying to get rid of the cause. Many parents and students question as to why books can be banned in the first place and what causes them to be taken out of so many schools. The authors of these novels have a few different opinions on taking these books out of schools. “Often…

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    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…

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    Fahrenheit 451 Analysis

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    Owning books in Fahrenheit 451 is illegal, it lets people become free of thought to the other world. The day to day life of today’s society is to sit and watch television all day long, not only at home, even while the kids are at school.Guy Montag is a firemen that start fires instead of putting them out, “spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world”, burning books and the houses that hold them. Firemen will watch you if there are any red flags showing that you are hiding books. Ray…

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    a world where books are forbidden, and watching television, almost all the time, was supported majorly in your society. Sounds good right? WRONG! Ironically, in the book Fahrenheit 451, that's exactly how it was. This book was based on the future, and what Ray Bradbury thought it was to be like based upon the habits of the youth during his time. The people in this book, are very similar to the people today, but the only variation between the people today and the people in the book is, the people…

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    To Kill A Mockingbird

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    in past years have done this through the use of the book To Kill a Mockingbird. But because of use of certain language in the book it was pulled from some school curriculum. In the case of the Drake school their copies of the book were burned. Author of the book Kurt Vonnegut responded by writing a letter to the Drake School Board about how “...angered, sickened, and saddened,” he was by their actions (Vonnegut). I think the copies of the book should not have been burned, and should have been…

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    In the case of this novel, it is the incident in which the “castle” is destroyed. The villagers, who discussed their bitter feelings towards the Blackwoods in the first chapter of the book, said in mocking tones “‘nice land to farm. Man could get rich, farming the Blackwood land. If he had a million years and three heads, and didn’t care what grew, a man could get rich. Keep their lands pretty well locked up, the Blackwoods do...Never…

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