Essay On Banning Books

Book banning and censorship has presented a problem in our society for centuries. It’s gotten so bad that people has often challenged these bannings because of the small and irrelevant reasons that people give. One librarian's perspective on banning books is “a great shame that the students had little access to the books.” I agree with her statement because the books that are getting banned are books that has helped shape literature. For example, classics such as The Great Gatsby, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Color Purple, Alice in Wonderland and Where The Wild Things Are have all been banned because of some ludicrous reason. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was removed for the excessive use of the N-word, but the …show more content…
All throughout his childhood he was susceptible to many illnesses while as a child. Due to him being sick all the time, Sendak was often reading comic books, watching movies, listening to classical music, drawing, and writing stories. Between 1948 and 1951 designed window displays for F.A.O. Schwartz and attended the Arts Students’ League in New York City. Maurice Sendak is infamous 338 word children's book, Where The Wild Things Are. The book is about a young boy named Max who causes his mother mischief while wearing a wolf costume. His mother calls him “Wild thing”where Max replies, “Eat her up.” He is sent to bed without supper and he stars to dream about sailing to a island where these, Wild things are and subsequently makes them their king until he sends them to bed without supper and finally decides to go back home.

The book was challenged because due to the fact that it promotes “witchcraft and supernatural events.” Also because it had scenes of neglection when Max was sent to his room without supper. Most of the Southern states banned the book because of the “witchcraft and supernatural events.” It was also challenged because most books of it’s time has depicted children as angelic and obedient but in Where The Wild Things Are, Max is depicted as a mischievous and disobedient child. This was thought to influence young children to

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Essay On Book Banning