The Golden Compass: Should Parents Ban Books?

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The Prefrontal cortex of a human brain helps you make decisions, the older you get the more it matures, helping you make better decisions. When you are an adolescent can you make those important decisions? Will they be right? The Catholic church banned a book called “The Golden Compass” 12 years after it was published, only when the media gave attention to it did they ban the book. Should parents ban books from their children at all? I will be discussing all of these points in my essay below.

Do you think it’s fair that the Catholic Church a book called “The Golden Compass”, many years after it’s publishing date, solely because there was a movie coming out, which in effect they became aware of the book and what’s in it? “The golden compass” …show more content…

In this case, the book “the golden compass”. In this book, there is light violence and a brief mention of sexual organs, but not by name, there is no foul language that I have seen in the book. Though there are a few fighting scenes in the book it is definitely something that a reader of the age of grade 7 and above could handle. I also think that the reader should be exposed to a little violence and gore and not just think that the world is a perfect place and always be so, even in fantasy books there should be a reality to the story. In fact, this book is not just a fantasy, but has many mixed genres in it as well, such as adventure, action and science fiction. As for sexual references and so on, I agree that there are a few mildly disturbing referencing to sexual organs in the human body, but as a middle school student, the person reading this should not be surprised or afraid to delve a little into this topic because it is merely the human body. I don't think that parents should ban or censor books of this nature from there children at this age, I believe whether its a violence, sexual content or religious problem in the book, the parent should just explain it as it is before they allow their child to read it that way they know the “proper” perspective the parents would like to set for their child. for example, if it is a religious problem (Atheism), instead of saying the book is “taboo” and

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