Leavaros
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Hmm, I read it a few months back, but I can't think of anything questionable. It all depends, who wants the book to be banned, and what are their reasons? Those are questions that all should ask.
Now, the Giver was banned before, but it isn't anymore. With that book I can understand why. In some parts it had a sexual nature to it. And there was also a scene were they "showed" the death of a baby because it was a twin. They also had a birthmother, that gave birth to all babys, and then the babies were then distributed to families who applied for one. It is easy to see how this book is questionable. (However I still enjoyed the book myself)
However, a Wrinkle in Time has nothing like that. I don't see why they would ban it.
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Now, the Giver was banned before, but it isn't anymore. With that book I can understand why. In some parts it had a sexual nature to it. And there was also a scene were they "showed" the death of a baby because it was a twin. They also had a birthmother, that gave birth to all babys, and then the babies were then distributed to families who applied for one. It is easy to see how this book is questionable. (However I still enjoyed the book myself)
However, a Wrinkle in Time has nothing like that. I don't see why they would ban it.
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That is absolutely ridiculous. The Giver is an amazing book, and I've never heard a word breathed against it.
Furthermore, as Kingsolver has written, many of our greatest pieces of art have nudity or sexual themes. Should Da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" be banned? Or Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam"? Nudity! Or what about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? Sex! Treason!
How bland would our libraries be without the spice of poetry that plays the heart, of stories that rattle the mind, of novels that turn the world upside down?
Where would we be if Tristan & Isolde were banned? What if Harper Lee's classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, were censored because it was controversial at its time of writing, and showed a dark side to the South? What if foreign literature were banned because it shows America from an impartial view?
In whiting out what is seen by our young, by being overly politically correct, by catering not to intellectuals, but to pop stars, we raise a generation that is foolish and ignorant and small-minded.
I hope--sincerely--that I die before that comes to be, or that I live long enough to see an end to that age.
Vale,
-Leavaros
Though I do not know you, I know your concerns well. Sadly, we are living in that age my friend. The general population in America are complete idiots. Every day I see the number grow of simple minded people who just take in what the big television screen says and take it in as fact. I was in an argument with one of my friends that Harry Potter was or was not witch craft. I only found out later that he hadn't even seen a cover of any of the series but heard someone else accuse it of so. That is when people are truly pathetic. At least in my opinion.
