Open Book

Introduction Hook Books have been banned throughout the world for centuries, but why? Bridge For years, books have been banned to make people think in certain ways, or to keep them ignorant about what really goes on in the world to control them and put them in boxes. As long as there have been books, there have been banned books to keep people in line or various other reasons. For example, religions ban books because they were offended by the language or topic, but this is detrimental to their…

finding more books to read. From a young age, my father had encouraged me to read and explore my love for finding new books. When I was about 8 or 9 years old, he got me my first public library card. He would take me to the public library and open the double doors to the kids section and to me it was like walking into a magic world straight out of a story book.…

This weeks reading, like most of the other books was very unique compared to any other reading I have read before. Sometimes I find this frustrating because I really have to switch the way my brain thinks to get into the proper mindset to read these books. I still have to analysis the facts and assess the writing, but in this class, I really have to work to remove my bias from all the reading. Before this class, I personally thought people who believed in magic and witchcraft were crazy because…

course the picture books were the best. I mean, at that age, I didn’t really have the visualization skills to see the book on my own just from words, versus how I am today. So, I loved having the pictures in books as a visual aid. I was reading things like “Beauty & the Beast, The Jungle Book, Tarzan, Cinderella, and The Lion King.” I can’t say how many times I read those books over and over. I went on to read more and more of those books, but this time they had some chapters. Books such as…

paraded my way across the library to the binder, desolately sitting by itself in a dark corner. I tugged open the cover and then flipped to the very back, in the 1650+ range. Scanning the page I found it only listed four titles. Making up my mind, I settled on looking for one called The Scarlet Letter that I’d never heard of before. After a few short minutes of looking, I triumphantly pulled the book from the shelf and inspected the cover. It looked more worn and faded and had an old-fashioned…

entering into a stress free world? Good news-this magical world of excitement exists! There is one simple step to entering into this world-open a book. Reading gives readers the ultimate excuse to escape reality and the stress in their lives. One bookworm states, “I found comfort through literature. I loved getting lost in things as marvelous and as wonderful as books. They made me forget about my own troubles, like a submarine and the sea, they submerged me so perfectly.” As readers enter into…

Book banning is not doing a greater cause. Book banning is when government or higher authority remove books off shelfs from school libraries for being political, religious, or offensive being too dangerous for young readers. People read books for adventure to discover a whole real world. Censoring books for being too offensive will not open reader’s minds for the real or creative world. Book banning challenges citizen’s freedom to read. Books are influence for new beginnings. Books support…

“Don’t judge a book by it’s cover!” Since we were old enough to read books, my teachers have preached this mantra to my classes. They would tell us that it is what is on the inside that matters, not just the cover. I must have heard these exact words hundreds of times while in school, yet I still found myself breaking this unwritten rule when I was in the eleventh grade. It was just another cold winter day in rural Minnesota when I entered my language arts class in the morning. Being that it…

him emotionally felt alone. Clarisse, Mildred, Faber, gone. Although deep down, he knew that this was for the better. Sounds of wood crackling and broken TV’s sizzling and buzzing whispering in his ears and the smoke burning his eyes; Montag began to open his mouth to try and speak. Granger spoke “I don’t know where to begin, but we must begin somewhere.” As he began making a pile of burned up pieces of wood and brick, the rest followed.…

banning books? I don’t think that's The Call of the Wild book is violent for 8th graders. I had read the first chapter of the book I don't think that the book is violent for 8th graders. A school board may say that they think this book are violent for students. Libraries should not ban the books because they are not violent for 8th graders. Don’t ban the book because how you will ban the books people will choose that book to read because they want to know why libraries had banned this book.…