It seems that books can get banned these days for just about anything, but what is the real reason books are getting banned. Is there some similarities in the text? Are the books being written to be banned?Who's banning these books? I for one would like to find these questions out, so...I have, through careful research and analyses. It seems that most of the time books get banned because they are offending some group or person. An example of this is in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck when the stable keep(Crooks) talks about there being no heaven. This offended many religious figures and therefore the book was banned. Another example is the book Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger a book that really isn't all that bad, but someone read this book misinterpreted it and ended up killing a very famous figure John Lennon. The man who shot John Lennon claims the reason he did it was because he felt his life mirrored that of Holden Caulfield the main character in Catcher and the Rye by J.D Salinger. It's unfortunate that great books like these are being banned just because of the way certain people interpret the book or whats said in the book. These books are fictional reads meant to entertain your mind, there not out there to hurt or cause any harm to society, they are written to entertain. Its all in the way these certain people interpret the read, so its not fair to shun the book from others just because of the way a certain person or group feels about it. All in all my opinion is a book should never be banned because its someones thoughts and feeling they do no harm to anyone, its when a fool gets hold of a book and puts their own spin on it, then make it out to be a harmful book society. Kyle's advice for this blog thought Don't Ban Books.
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