Lolita, a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov is part of the extensive and well-known list of challenged or banned books. This novel was banned from schools and many colleges, the main reasons are due to its use ofsexual content and inappropriate use of language throughout the narration. In the present day, Lolita is viewed as Vladimir Nabokov's most well-known and disputable novel that suggests themes such as the innocence, damage of love, and manipulation with the usage of words. The purpose of the authors’ novel was to make the reader question themselves about morality and in some cases identify with the character Humbert and his way of morality. The justification of this research paper is to analyze how the themes are related to the questioning of morality by the author. …show more content…
And as the narrator tells Humbert had always a hard time in relationships because of the fact of his obsession young girls which lead to cheating and rumors of his sexual preferences. He even lets the reader now about his experiences with psychiatrics because of his unbalanced conditions that he often referred this visits as “breaks”. After his visit from Dolores house, he makes a short stop so he can kill the Claire Quilty who helped her escape and kicked her out of his house after she refused to be part of a pornographic movie. Humbert is arrested for a traffic violation and put in prison once the authorities connect him to the murder (Banned Books Week). The story ends with the death of Dolores during labor on Christmas Day with a child from another man. Many readers will see the novel as “indecent”, since the language of the authors plays with us the “readers”. “Nabokov's prose alone can seduce readers into seeing the man's otherwise outrageous and criminal point of view (NPR)”. Even though the author is trying to seduce the reader it can’t be taken as an excuse that the novel isn’t indecent and this is why the novel
Many might think that all teenage or young adult books would be filled with happy thoughts and positive things, but you don't learn lessons from everything being perfect. That’s where banned or challenged books come along. A challenged book is a book that has been requested by many to be moved off a library's shelf. A banned book is a challenged book the has been removed from the shelves. The Outsiders was one of the best-selling books of its time and has won 5 awards since. It was banned and challenged for many reasons by many school districts. By examining its usage of expose on family dysfunction, strong language and portrayal of gang violence, it is clear why some would have it banned.
The paragraph above does show how the readers’ emotions are in turmoil because of the sort of double standard created when the story is t...
It is said that fiction is an essentially rhetorical art and that the author tries to persuade the reader towards a specific view of the world while reading. This is evident in both short stories, A Secret Lost in the Water by Roch Carrier, and He-y Come on Ou-t by Shinichi Hoshi. Although through A Secret Lost in the Water, Roch Carrier displays how fiction is an essentially rhetorical art better than Shinichi Hoshi in He-y, Come on Ou-t (awkard sentence), Shinichi Hoshi demonstrates it better through the use of prognosis. Furthermore, by utilizing the characters, such as the farmer from A Secret Lost in the Water, and the use of symbolism such as the hole from He-y, Come on Ou-t, it is evident that the author makes an endeavour towards persuading
Foerstel, Herbert N. Banned in the U.S.A.: a Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. Print.
By reading a certain print texts, readers are manipulated into accepting or rejecting additional texts. The short story “The Altar of the Family” written by Michael Welding shares many comparisons with the feature article “Boys to Men” written by Stephen Scourfield, and by reading one the reader can make clear understanding of the other. Symbolism, genre and certain values and attitudes are present in both the texts and will be further examined in the following essay to show that a readers understanding of particular print texts is shaped by the reading of previous texts.
...book is often dubbed immoral and inappropriate, it is meant to do nothing more than to show the world its own shame.
L’Engle, L'Engle. “Focus On The Story, Not Readers…” Writer Apr 2010: p. 24-25. MAS Ultra-School Edition. EBSCOhost. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.
Arlene A. Elder points out that “the book’s linguistic structure, established in the first section and later subverted, that, in my view, creates a dialogic performance experience for the reader and narrator, that has drawn the most consistent attention of critics, most of them noting the increasing interrelationship of different voices present
Banned means to prohibit; to not allow someone to read it. It could be for many reasons, but most are for inappropriate topics for teens and kids. Most books are banned from libraries and schools. Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler is one of the books that was challenged because of fowl language and references to sex and drugs.
...nts out that censors often pick out very short passages of a work without taking into account its context in the entire scheme of the novel.
The opinions of the narrator can be seen throughout the book. The readers saw a glimpse of the narrator’s opinions about the settings, situations and the characters. However, the narrator’s attitude throughout the book changes over time. In the beginning of the book, the readers got information about the narrator feeling guilt towards his writing career due to his Puritan ancestors. In the passage, the narrator has some judgmental attitude towards the Puritan community.
...rtunately, this discourse didn’t play a large enough role in the construction of the novel to make me enjoy reading the book.
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solution to his situation at the close of the novel. He realizes that there is
I chose words like “creeping” and “peeping” to imply that that behavior is abominable. I used an entire paragraph to describe the details of an undutiful police officer who seemed like the main character of the story, until I suddenly told my readers “Now we drop Johnny Sebastian Cage”(What’s with the attitude Draft 2 page 2) to prove that this character is not important at all. This drastic transition would surprise the readers and make them more interested in the development of the storyline. However, the vital difficulty I met for this paper was the analysis