Essay On Banning Books
As Americans we should be able to write a book without the worries of someone trying to ban it. Over the past years we have gotten so many book removed from schools and libraries because we found it offensive by it in the slightest ways. Books get banned for the smallest reasons, “sometimes books are banned not because of what they say but because of something the author said or did” (“Library Censorship Is Not Justified” 2). People try to ban books if it goes against what they believe in. Lots of religious groups still ban books some groups even burn books. Book banning takes away the writers and the readers’ Constitutional rights.
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Books started being burned way back during the holocaust times. The most famous book burning was in May of 1933. Books were burned if they were written by a Jewish writer or if it went against Adolf Hitler. The Nazis first censored and destroyed those German books that they considered problematic, then destroyed the books of those they considered pathological (the Jews), inferior (the Poles), and resistant (the British) (Knuth 1). Book burning is an extreme form of book banning. By getting rid of books you are destroying any sort of ideas that the writer wants the readers to view. Book burning was such a serious case during world war two. Many people were killed because they really wanted to read or protect a book from being destroyed. Even though a book may seem offensive to one person it can mean the absolute world to another person. Even though book burning was serious case not everyone agreed. “President Dwight Eisenhower, who as a president directed American troops against Communist forces in Korea, disagreed. ‘Don’t join the book burner’, he said. ‘Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed (“Library Censorship Is Not Justified” 3). In 2001 pastor Doug Taylor wanted to hold a book burning because he felt that if you read any
The first amendment is all about having freedom in just about anything such as speech which gives us the right …show more content…
Books started being burned way back during the holocaust times. The most famous book burning was in May of 1933. Books were burned if they were written by a Jewish writer or if it went against Adolf Hitler. The Nazis first censored and destroyed those German books that they considered problematic, then destroyed the books of those they considered pathological (the Jews), inferior (the Poles), and resistant (the British) (Knuth 1). Book burning is an extreme form of book banning. By getting rid of books you are destroying any sort of ideas that the writer wants the readers to view. Book burning was such a serious case during world war two. Many people were killed because they really wanted to read or protect a book from being destroyed. Even though a book may seem offensive to one person it can mean the absolute world to another person. Even though book burning was serious case not everyone agreed. “President Dwight Eisenhower, who as a president directed American troops against Communist forces in Korea, disagreed. ‘Don’t join the book burner’, he said. ‘Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed (“Library Censorship Is Not Justified” 3). In 2001 pastor Doug Taylor wanted to hold a book burning because he felt that if you read any