Research Paper On Banning To Kill A Mockingbird

IDS Op-Ed Review: Banning Books Harms Student The article “Banning Book Harms Student” was written by Maddy Kein, a student of Indiana University. In the article, the author stated his opinion on banning books with sensitive contents is in fact doing harms rather than being beneficial to the students. Author used an example of the mistreatment of a controversial and well-known book, “To Kill a Mocking bird” to demonstrate people will take action against a book if they find it can be offensive or cause emotional discomfort for some people. Then author offered his counterargument as respond to the statement made by the the public school district of Biloxi to elaborate that we should not sacrifice the accuracy of the content for comfort.

There has been a massive discussion about a school district, Biloxi School District, who has been discussing to pull a book out of the 8th-grade curriculum. The book, To Kill A Mockingbird, has received many complaints, about how much censorship and mature language is inside the book. Another case of a book pulling happened in the Drake School Board. Drake pulled a book from their high school curriculum and burned every single one of the books right inside the school. The author of the book, Kurt Vonnegut, sent a letter to the school board, explaining how he is very infuriated about his books being burned. These two books have significant similarities, about how each of their books was pulled, and how each author dealt with this situation. First off, they shouldn’t remove ‘To

Has anyone ever heard of a banned book? This book by Harper Lee, To Kill a

First, To Kill A Mockingbird should not be banned in public schools because people need

Every year at the end of september, (since 1982) the US has Banned Books Week. Which essentially means a week where stores and libraries display and discount books that have either been challenged or altogether banned in the school curriculum at some point in time. I actually didn’t know that this was a national tradition until this year, when I visited my local bookstore, (Scout and Morgan), and spoke to the person at the counter about it. There was a little display and everything and among the pile of unfit titles were: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984. I had actually visited with my mom, (age 51), and older brother, (age 35). When they saw the books that had been banned they couldn’t believe their eyes, and kept saying, “No that’s not true I read this in school.” It took me about 3 times to finally convince them that these books aren’t apart of the curriculum anymore. Though many high schoolers have heard of these titles before and have been told many times that they are classics, without being required of encouraged to read them in a classroom environment, we might never be able to experience them. Banning books in the classroom because of a parent or administers personal belief not only prevents children from reading epic classics in literature, but also creates a divide between generation in the information they learned about the world around them. When parents have a different definition of things such as censorship

Books provide so much more knowledge for students and people of all ages in our society. Some books, however, can be considered harmful to readers, or too graphic for certain individuals. Many parents do not want their children reading a lot of the content in more mature books, especially in school where a lot of the reading is done out loud. Books should be banned to the extent of specific age groups and locations. Books should be banned from locations, such as schools, if they feature very graphic or ideologically sensitive material that some parents may not be comfortable with their children reading or learning about.

School boards and teachers have a responsibility for protecting the minds of their students and covering age appropriate material. However, does this responsibility cover the extreme act of banning books from school classrooms? Does not the teacher have a duty to introduce to their students world issues in order to better the students ability to cope with problems in the world? How does a school decide which books should be banned from the classroom, and should it be left up to the teacher to decide what is decided in his/her classroom. By banning books from the classroom, we prevent our students from learning about controversial topics in a safe environment, and we also encroach upon the student’s freedom of reading what they want in

School boards, principals, and teachers have a responsibility for protecting the minds of their students by covering grade and age appropriate material in the classroom. However, does this given responsibility cover the act of banning books from their classrooms? As an advocate for each student, does the teacher not have a duty to introduce the students to a these words issues in order to help the student cope with the different problems in the world? How does a school decide which books should be banned and how much say does the teacher have what should be left up to the teacher? Some say that banning books from the classroom, we prevent them from learning about different controversial topics in a safe and secure environment. In this paper I reflect on my research question: Why do schools ban books in the classroom?

Imagine your friend from another school telling you about one of her favorite books, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. She urges you to read it, but when you go to your school library, it has been pulled from the shelves! Turns out, your hypothetical school has been banning books left and right, just because parents object. While some say that objections to most challenged books are valid, school administrators should not be allowed to ban books because it infringes on the First Amendment right to free speech, may waste the ability to teach children, and could interfere with social development of lesbian and gay youth.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has been challenged/banned countless times since it’s original publication in 1960. The reasoning people could have behind banning it is that they feel that the racism, language and subject matter in the book is offensive, inappropriate, immoral and that it encourages and condones such things. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, a small town in Alabama, during the depression from 1935-1937, and is told from the perspective of a little girl named Scout. In the book Scout’s father Atticus teaches her and her brother Jem many valuable lessons. The things Atticus teaches Scout and Jem are things we all need to know. To Kill a Mockingbird is an inspirational book that teaches valuable moral values,

For my paper, I have chosen to analyze the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird.” This movie is based on the novel – by the same name – written by Harper Lee. The story has two major plotlines. One follows Jem, Scout, and Dill as they try to uncover the secrets behind the infamous “Boo” Radley. It’s only at the end of the movie that we learn “Boo’s” real name to be Arthur, and that we discover he actually tries to protect people, as he saved Jem and Scout’s lives. The other major plotline, and the one most relevant to this class, follows Atticus Finch, Jem and Scout’s father, as he tries to represent Tom Robinson. Mr. Robinson is an African American man who has been charged with raping Mayella Ewell. The movie then

Censorship cases often bring about debates over students’ first amendment rights. Students’ first amendment rights are important to preserve so that students can not be excluded from meaningful works or literature. It is understandable for the government to design educational plans as a way to get its voice into classrooms, but “the truth-promoting function of the First Amendment provides no reason, however, to question the right of students to explore a variety of ideas and perspectives, and to form and express ideas of their own” (Brown, 1994, p. 30). Schools already place a restriction on religious material or material addressing current political controversy (Brown, 1994).

People in our community should have the right to choose what book the students will read because some books are inappropriate. But the parents should trust the English teachers and the school board because they are going to read certain books for a reason and maybe it is a good book to learn about.

A relevant example of this concept is the banning of the classic novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, in Waukegan, Illinois. The school district proclaimed that its arbitrary dialect of black slaves was slanderously stereotypical, barring all students from reading the novel, inciting further debate because of its pro-abolitionist theme. As aptly demonstrated, censorship of literary content should not be imposed on schools.

Although some see book banning as a strong attack against important history in literature, others, especially parents, see book banning as protection from the cruel history our country has had. These inappropriate books could also affect a child’s view on the world. The biggest culprit of this scenario is racism, which is the one reasoning for the banning of To Kill a Mockingbird and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Parents and schools are worried that if children read a book with such racial tension and prominence, than the children themselves will become racists. Stories like these could also confuse students into to