How Can Banning Books Be Banned Essay

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Banning books will cut off lots of information that everyone needs to learn. Banning books also makes it harder for kids because some kids might like certain books, If you take the books they like away from them then they will no longer wanna read. As well as, some books might have a reason for banning but usually the reason is not to major. Sometimes kids can learn things in other ways then the easy way.
Jamie Leigh Talks about how banning books is not always the right thing to do. “You may not like something, but that doesn't mean you have to take it away from everyone else”.

Just because you wanna banned a book doesn't mean everyone else wants too. Lots of other people might also agree. …show more content…

What this means to me is that lots of people might want to ban a book but it would still have to grant the issue.
Again, even if the book is inappropriate or offensive others might not agree.
“With so many book challenges and bans arising every day across the nation, it’s not the children who need safeguarding; it’s the books.” (Jamie Leigh pg 4)
This quote means that sometimes it's not the children that need to be protected from the books its the books that need to be protected from the kids. This is very important because its actually true and also kinda sounds silly...
Additionally, this connects to banned books by showing that its not the books it's usually the kids/ people reading them.
Basically books are not the reason for being banned it is usually the reader that causes this.

”Where would we be as a nation—as a planet—without the writers who dared to battle our monsters, from the mundane to the epic, with their mighty pens?” (Jamie leigh pg

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