Wednesday, November 5, 2008

He said, She said

For my topic I have been looking at censorship and what constitutes a book to be banned. One of the secondary sources that I have found is an article about a book called The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things. The article talks about how parts in the book that may be considered controversial for teens and adolescents to read. Another article that goes along with this is the author actually talking about the fact that her book did get banned from some schools and what she thought of that.
I think that it is good to see from both the perspective of those who banned the book and why they thought it needed to be banned and the author's argument to that. I found it interesting that the author could see how the book was questioned but still argued that they may have been a little out of line to ban it all together.