What kind of a hateful anti-Semitic author depicts Jews as rats?
It seems someone is always wanting to ban this or that book for one reason or another. Here are a small list of books that have banned from various libraries over the last few years.Tennessee school board bans Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust novel, Maus
Author Art Spiegelman says decision by McMinn county, which cited inappropriate ‘curse words’ and nudity, is ‘demented’www.theguardian.com
8 curse words and a drawing of a NAKED female mouse.
Its not the end of the world but it is a signpost on the way. One of the board commented that there was a lot of unpleasant stuff in the Pulitzer Prize winning book. There must be a way to depict the Holocaust without subjecting the kids to unpleasentness.
Its easy to mock these people but I am sure they are genuinely doing what they think is best for the kids. But really.....................
To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
The Hate U Give
1984 by George Orwell
Catcher and the Rye
The Holy Bible
The Koran
“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”
— Stephen Chbosky