Diego Ogando Ela Draft 12/11/14
People think books should be banned just because there is somethings in it that is immature or just not good for kids and teens to hear. This comes up with the books “Lord Of The Flies” by William Golding. This is a book about normal school boys who have been stranded on an island and have no way to get out. They go crazy and get into many fights with each other and somehow get drawn apart and start to hate each other. But This book should not be banned just because it has violence. There are things much worse that you just introduce to your children and this book hold many lessons kids and teenagers should know.
Many parents think that lord of the Flies should be and should stay banned just because it has killing and violence. Most of the book is just about the kids trying to survive and staying in their own group after they split up and become enemies. But it makes me wonder. Why would this book be banned when so many other books shouldn’t. Take the beloved harry potter books for example. This book has many violent scenes. Death of many kids and adults. But yet it is still no banned from schools everywhere. it says here on “Banned Books” from infoplease.com. It states that “ Not everyone agrees on which books should be banned. The Harry Potter books are a good example of this: some think they are wonderfully imaginative books that have done much to encourage kids to read; others, who think the Potter books should be banned, think they are a bad and corrupting influence on kids.” This book has as much violence as the book Lord of the Flies. What I think is that these kind of books have more than a reputation than others. Lord of the flies is known to be not the best book ever. But Harry potter is loved by adults and children of all ages. So people knowing this probably thinks that it’s fine to have this book in their libraries at school. So why would this book be banned? It’s only violence, you have probably read books with as much violence and maybe even more.
Kids should know not to go around and hurting each other and setting standards as king and leader because, it and go out of hand. Kid’s can learn from this. Kid’s are going to be resistance towards being jack (the antagonist of the book.) They are going to look at him and question the ways he is thinking. They will look at him and say no, ralph will win, he will beat jack. They will want the hero to make it out alive and well and come out on top of jack. I think parents look at this book and just think it’s a bad influence on children and i think they can actually look at this book and learn from it. They will look at jack and know it is wrong what he is doing.
Yes parents and teachers will look at this book and think it is a bad influence towards children. There is some violence towards children and they see how children can go mad without adults being with them. They will look at all of this and think that it is inappropriate for children and that they should look at this and think that this book is no good for children and that it should not be acknowledged by them. But it is in my argument that i think that they are wrong. There is something called the first amendment, freedom of speech. So if you are banning book you are going against the freedom of speech. No one should ever be able to “ban a book.” Just because it is violent does not mean it should be taken away from someone. Also adding on to how kids can learn from lord of the flies. They can be taught how be a role model. students and kids can be aware how Ralph is in control of things and tries to be the best role model
The book lord of the flies should not be argued to be banned from school. There are things much worse that you just introduce to your children and this book hold many lessons kids and teenagers should know. All i am trying to say is that readers should have a choice what to read and shouldn’t listen to anyone else when it comes to their reading. Yes the subject of violence is not pleasant but it is not a reason to ban a book from someone. We should be able to read whatever without it being questioned.
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