I've lately been hearing that 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 are being banned from schools. I'm not sure on the credibility of these people...so someone please clear this up for me and thank you!
I loved Fahrenheit 451. What a great book. Why would anybody ban this? Wouldn't that be kinda ironic considering it's theme?
They ban these books all the time, certain schools do not want to educate their students, and these schools a premotely southern and mid western, were religion runs the towns.
That is pretty ironic.. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they did ban them though. They wouldn't want students to start really thinking and questioning things, which is a possible result of reading the two. Thankfully, they have not been banned at my school. In fact, the AP english class studies 1984.
You know, I'm going to check my school library for Nitzchei (however it's spelled)...see if they have it)
possibly because its got a black character in it. ??? some stupid people have a problem with that ....
huck finn used the N-word... "****** Jim" (there are some folks who contend that sam clemens was a racist; i think not, mmmkay? ...) ~ ...there was a recent thread here about the 100 most banned books of 1990-2000...
I looked it up and they've put "restrictions" on 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. Banning, restrictions. They're both censorship and they both suck. They haven't banned Huck Finn in TX. Our governor is a nazi, I swear to God. Well thanks everyone for the feedback. Peace Love and Woodstock, Krystin
wow thats crazy.. those are really good books.. sounds to me like the thing about Harry Potter and witchcraft..
A lot of the banned books are physiological books about puberty and bodily changes--resources for young people to learn about their own damn bodies and schools try to bar kids from them--usually because they merely explain masturbation or safe sex. Ridiculous.
WTF. banning it cause it has the n word in it?! ........... that's just too stupid fer me to rant about at the moment.
hell, maybe it was banned for leading the morals of youth astray, i dunno... ask the kooks who banned it, mmm?
The thing is, banning books always backfires anyway. As soon as people (especially impressionable youths) hear the "grown ups" have banned something, ZOOM they all want it. So in away, perhaps this will spread these books further? One can only hope. Censorship is bullshit. I had to go to Amazon.ca just to buy a copy of the Elders of Zion. WTF? *sigh*
Huck Finn was banned by some schools for the alleged racism it contained. They made no allowances for the time it was written. It is censorship at it's worst. As far as the poster who said they ban books for their sex instuctional value, I can remember reading a REALLY racy book about cheerleaders out of our school library.
yeah, that ol' racist sam clemens... writng as mark twain wrote scathing observations on certain unusual practices peculiar to this country (as in his "the united states of lyncherdom", _puddinhead wislon_, & many other short & long pieces of writing), as well as using some of his earnings (he had made, and lost, a fair amount of money by late 1800s/early 1900s) to establish a college education fund for scholarships awarded to "promising negroes"... yeah, that sounds like a fellow who has a racist heart for sure... duh... ~ gee, any other mark train works been banned? (hell, twain wouldn't let _the war prayer_ (& several other works) be published while he was alive!) ~ hiow 'bout kurt vonnegut of joseph heller or robert heinlein? how 'bout henry miller & alan ginsburg & walt whitman? ~ speaking of banning... & censorship adolf hitler's authorized (for america) version of _mein kampf_ ("my struggle") was apparently ummmm missing some chapters from the german version (mostly detailing his plans on how he was going to take europe & what he was planning to do to her once he had her in his claws); so when some american dude published a version with the "missing chapters" he was sued by hitler's lterary agents in the usa & was indeed ordered to cease and desist... so hitler sorta partly censored his own book, so most english-speaking folks wouldn't know exactly what he had in mind for germany & the world in the 30s & 40s... wierd, huh?)
