Banned Book Research Paper
Banned books. What does this phrase mean to you? Is it something you agree or disagree with? If you go online and look up the definition of banned book, the most common definition is: A book that has been removed from the shelves of a library, bookstore, or classroom because of its controversial content such as political, religious, sexual, or social grounds. My personal definition of a banned book is a barrier to another's education and imagination because of the books contrasting content. So what’s a banned book to you?
Somebody who agrees with my definition of a banned book is the author of the article, Banned Books by Borgna Brunner. Brunner says “The First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees our right to free speech, which includes …show more content…
Well the answer is simply because it was different from all other children's books at the time. All other Children’s books before Sendak’s were all about children who were good and do what they were told and so on. But Sendak broke that stereotype with Where the Wild Things Are. How? Sendak made it to where the child in the book was mischievous and would misbehave. So thus, he came up with the book Where the Wild Things Are where a kid named Max who felt misunderstood at school and home so he escapes to the land of the Wild Things were majestic, fierce creature lived. The creatures allow Max to become their leader where he promises everybody in the kingdom will live happily. However, Max finds that being a leader isn’t so easy. Sendak’s main focus of the book was to teach kids not to judge anybody by their appearance, “there’s a wild thing in all of us and that’s okay”, and “love with everything you’ve got!” There is one last question here, who are what inspired Sendak to create this book? Well first of all, Sendak was inspired by Jewish relatives and ancestors from Europe. He had a dream as an adult Where he and his siblings were joking about how their Jewish ancestors supposedly couldn’t speak English, had yellow teeth, and would grab children by their cheeks like they wanted to just “gobble them up”. Now this is just how he came up with the characters or also called “the wild things” personality and looks. The whole book’s inspiration was inspired from how he grew up and would disobey his parents. So if this book was so great, why was it banned? Well it’s challenged more than its banned. It gets challenged from mostly parents because they say it promotes rebellion, fear, punishment, and escape. Me personally, I believe there is no good reason why this book should be banned because I grew up reading this book and I had no problems with being a disrespectful toward anybody
Somebody who agrees with my definition of a banned book is the author of the article, Banned Books by Borgna Brunner. Brunner says “The First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees our right to free speech, which includes …show more content…
Well the answer is simply because it was different from all other children's books at the time. All other Children’s books before Sendak’s were all about children who were good and do what they were told and so on. But Sendak broke that stereotype with Where the Wild Things Are. How? Sendak made it to where the child in the book was mischievous and would misbehave. So thus, he came up with the book Where the Wild Things Are where a kid named Max who felt misunderstood at school and home so he escapes to the land of the Wild Things were majestic, fierce creature lived. The creatures allow Max to become their leader where he promises everybody in the kingdom will live happily. However, Max finds that being a leader isn’t so easy. Sendak’s main focus of the book was to teach kids not to judge anybody by their appearance, “there’s a wild thing in all of us and that’s okay”, and “love with everything you’ve got!” There is one last question here, who are what inspired Sendak to create this book? Well first of all, Sendak was inspired by Jewish relatives and ancestors from Europe. He had a dream as an adult Where he and his siblings were joking about how their Jewish ancestors supposedly couldn’t speak English, had yellow teeth, and would grab children by their cheeks like they wanted to just “gobble them up”. Now this is just how he came up with the characters or also called “the wild things” personality and looks. The whole book’s inspiration was inspired from how he grew up and would disobey his parents. So if this book was so great, why was it banned? Well it’s challenged more than its banned. It gets challenged from mostly parents because they say it promotes rebellion, fear, punishment, and escape. Me personally, I believe there is no good reason why this book should be banned because I grew up reading this book and I had no problems with being a disrespectful toward anybody