It is story time at school and everyone gathers around to find out what today's book will be about. Will it be funny, serious, happy, sad or scary? Shel Silverstein is an American author and poet who published a book in 1981 titled, A Light In the Attic. This is a book full of poetry directed at a young audience. A Light In the Attic is children's poems that were banned, but I feel that it should not have been. A Light In the Attic is a children's book of approximately 35 poems that encourage children to make light of difficult subjects. Some of the poem titles comprise of “How Not to Have to Dry the Dishes,” “Monsters I’ve Met,” “Messy Room,” and “Somebody Has to.” There are many topics discussed in the book. The topics can be as heavy as death or subjects such as doing chores. Other issues Silverstein discusses is life, getting older, not getting what you want, how to approach things and more. Juveniles reflect as plentiful as everyone else when it comes to serious topics and Silverstein acknowledges that. He tries to add humor to these topics and incorporates it into his poems. In A Light In the Attic, Silverstein added some silly aspects to things like chores. Consequently, …show more content…
I think that Shel Silverstein’s book should not have been banned. Everyone needs to have some kind of sense of humor about serious subjects. I believe that children should not have to worry about these topics, and Silverstein writes to makes kids less anxious. I know as a kid, I always hated talking about heavy subjects. However, Shel Silverstein addresses them in a silly way. He tries to make a point to show that they’re not always a bad thing. He encourages kids to write ridiculous poems, and draw crazy pictures. If this book teaches anything to children, it teaches children to think differently. To come to an end, I conclude that A Light In the Attic should not have been
In the article censorship: a personal view by Judy bulme she discusses and touches on censorship in literature in children and young adolescence books. Now in article there are a lot of possible exigencies listed threw out the article one of the main exigencies is that Judy bulme has personal experience with censorship as a little girl, with that personal account she has familiarity that compels and gives her credibility to write this article. With exigencie their also comes a purpose bulme’s purpose in the article is trying to convince parents that you should not coddle a young teen or an adolescent from literature that may not be suitable for them, but let their mind wonder and explain it after they read it. Also she communicates that censorship on books are not right because it’s unconstitutional violating the first amendment freedom of press. The audience she speaks to in article is the group of parents that are like middle age and older that have one track minds, and have to young teens and adolescent ages between 12-9 years old that are hesitant to let their children to read edgy books, teens who were her age and, have or experience the same thing she went thought as a kid, teachers and facility that believe in her cause that have lost their job over edgy books that were not age appropriate to their students. The context that you have to consider in the time of Judy bulme article is there is are a lot of issues going on the America culture that censorship of government felt need be. For inesxctie like the cold war was going on and nobody knew if another war was going to break out at any time. So any material that seemed edgy or conserverial it was going to be censored or restricted by the censors to the minors. Then th...
A Light in the Attic is a collection of one hundred and thirty-one children's poems by Shel Silverstein. It is ranked fifty-one on the American Library Association's list of the one hundred most frequently challenged books (2014).
Is it possible to talk about the good of this issue? In my opinion I find it as a way of teaching children who are soon to be teens what growing up means. It clearly explains that Lucky, the character in the book, is preparing herself to be a grown up. I personally find this as a good idea to slowly teach pre-teens of the body as they get older. So why ban the book? Ms. Patron clearly states that the book is aimed for children from nine to twelve years old. From my understanding these are about the last two years of elementary school and the start of your first year in middle school. There’s nothing bad about writing a book about growing up that is aimed at a young audience who can learn from it. One way I can relate this is with a health class in high school. The teachers in a health class will talk about and show pictures of sexually transmitted diseases. Does that mean that other teachers can go and complain about it? Well yes they can but they cannot start a petition to ban the class from schools. I understand that i...
Every child reads comical poetry books such as The Giving Tree during their childhood. Its author, Sheldon Allan Silverstein, was one of the most recognizable children’s poets and poetry icons that has ever lived. He holds a household name due to the fact that despite his past he is able to help form a future in language, poetry, and the arts for the innovators of tomorrow. Silverstein’s works captured the essence of a person’s childhood and changed poetry and children’s literature forever.
In each of his poems, the Loser, Thumb Face, Warning, Squishy Touch, and Skin Stealer, Silverstein presented an illogical situation, but made it entertaining to the reader by using end rhyme, creating an amusing story, and including a vivid picture. His writing ability made his poems enjoyable for both children and adults and will continue to delight his readers for years to come. Works Cited Friday, Sely. "Biography." Shel Silverstein Collected Information. 1999. http://195.114.233.19/Silverstein/bio.html (25 Oct. 1999).
...tioned books, plus many, many more that have been banned or changed, should be brought back, as long as the parents of the children to be reading these items agree to allow it, so that they can get a full effect of how the reader was trying to portray his, or the actor’s emotions, in the book. There should also be an age in school that they start letting children read these things, because obviously it is not going to be appropriate for a fourth grader to start reading someone that is saying a curse word every other word, or one that focuses on negative things like racism, because that information could be detrimental to the overall learning capabilities of the kids. Finally, some of the literature that was banned years ago, are being reinstated into schools, because of people like me that have the same opinion that I do, and will stand up and fight for our rights.
Shel Silverstein was mastered in the crafts of book and poetry writing, music, and film. Throughout his career, he brought the love of reading to children and adults all around the world. His passion for book and poetry writing has taught children life lessons leading into their adulthood, such as the fact that there is not always going to be a happy ending, but giving up should not be an option. Throughout Silverstein’s life, he made an impact in the book and poetry world and is still continuing to impact readers of all ages today.
...your imagination run wild and explore everything good in life, as an adult and a child. Silverstein almost tells the audience of the poem to leave the gray, bleak buildings and pollution and return to their imagination and Mother Nature.
To this day, I remember every word to Shel Silverstein’s It’s Dark in Here and can envision the illustrations at the bottom of the page: a simple pen drawing of a sleepy lion with a little boys arm sticking out the lion's mouth, trying to write on a sheet of paper. I can not recall exactly why my six year old self loved the poem, but I do have memories of Where the Sidewalk Ends being my show-and-tell on multiple occasions, repeatedly reading the poems, and walking around my house reciting It’s Dark in Here. Where the Sidewalk Ends is honestly my first literary love, the rhythm, the illustrations, and the witty humor made my young self truly excited to read. After about eleven years I brought out my copy once more. Much to my surprise, I found
The Catcher in the Rye Should Not be Banned. & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; Since its publication in 1951, The Catcher In the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger has served as a conflagration for debate and extreme controversy. Although the novel has been the target of scornful criticism, it has also been the topic of wide discussion. The novel portrays the life of sixteen year old, Holden Caufield. Currently in psychiatric care, Holden recalls what happened to him last Christmas.
Considering all of this, Of Mice and Men should not be a banned book because it provides readers with information that they can use in school or for later in life. Another thing is that John Steinbeck makes readers enjoy the book with details that bring you inside the story. Also because banning a book that contains euthanasia is not necessary because having something suffer would be much worse. Lastly Steinbeck’s book helps people understand the disabilities that people have. Don’t let this great book rot away with the other banned books!
Shel Silverstein was born in Chicago, Illinois on the twenty fifth day of September of 1930. He began his art of drawing and writing at a very tender age. Among the arts he was specialized in included being a cartoonist, writing poems, performing, playwriting; he also became a recording artist. Moreover, he was a Grammy-winning and a nominated song writer. He is better known for writing iconic books that involve poetry and prose especially for the young readers. His poetry was technically written hence they are very appealing to the readers. He wrote very many poems during his time as an artist among them was the; Mask, Underface, Hug O'War, Jake Says and Colors et cetra. The great number of the poems he wrote is owed to the fact that he began writing at a tender age. Therefore, in this paper I will specifically analyze the extent to which Silverstein has exploited the use of imagery throughout most of his poems.
“If you are a dreamer, come in” (Silverstein 9). The opening line in Where the Sidewalk Ends, the first book in his popular trilogy, Shel Silverstein offers the reader a seat by his fire and a few tales to hear. He sets out his theme, for this book and others, of adventure, imagination and creativity. Silverstein’s style of poetry is often referred to as peculiar or unconventional. Each of his poems, though off the wall, has an underlying message or advice on life, love, school, family and many other topics. Shel Silverstein teaches his readers life lessons through his quirky and eccentric poems.
It is a book that my child may never be able to read. It seems that the only logical reasoning to aid in what offends people is to completely eliminate the book from the library. A better approach is to understand that this book may help them examine other beliefs, attitudes, values, and traditions and to accept, tolerate, or even reject these ideas without prejudices against people who hold particular views. In the democracy In which we live, where regularly all ideas are debatable. A wide range on all points of view should be available to the public.
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame (Wilde).” Books are written to help the people who chose to read them, and to me they should have the right to choose the books they want to read. Even though some of the content may seem explicit, most people would agree that that is not the theme of the book. Authors chose to specifically put certain topics into their writing because they know what they want to show their audience. I believe Burned should not be banned from schools because it has great moral lessons to teach teenagers.