Argumentative Essay Of Banning Books

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This novel teaches important values and educate children about real world situation that some teen their age face in life and not to take the life they are living for granted. Unfortunately, this novel has been banned at one point in time in specific school around the U.S. I am against book banning for three reasons. First, I believe that education should be open to everyone and have access to anything they want to read or be informed about. My second reason specifically addresses the First Amendement which states we get freedom of speech, religion and press. When the government bans book from having people read them that is going against the first amendment. My last reason is I think that parents should monitor what their own children reads, but not have the authority to ban other children from reading specific espeically the Fault In Our Stars. Studies believe that banning …show more content…

Their trip to Amsterdam to meet their favorite author turned out to be a complete mess but they did not let them stop them from having a great weekend and their constant ups and downs of their illnesses. This is something that kids need to realize things happen in life but you need to look for the positives and not the negatives. The last life lesson I have found reading this book is that you need to actually experience life.
“ I was blind and heart broken and didn’t want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted “ I have wonderful news! And I was like I don’t want to hear wonderful news right now.” and Gus said, “This is wonderful new you want to hear,” and I asked him, Fine, what is it? And he said, “ You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine

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