Banning books from schools. It has actually come to
people, adults, banning children from reading! Children and teenagers, such as
me, are not always happy or satisfied with some of the books that schools
provide and would like a wider range of book selections. I love to read and
hate that the types of books that I like to read most are banned or on their
way to being banned. Such as the book “Divergent” by Veronica Roth. I’ve recently
read this book and have come to really enjoy it. But it may be banned from
school libraries. Well, I think that the book “Divergent” by Veronica Roth
should not be banned from school libraries because it teaches important lessons
and also teaches about bravery.
One good lesson that the book teaches people is to stand
up for yourself and your loved ones. One example of this in the book is when
the main character, Tris, stands up for her friend, Al, because her and
everyone else can obviously sees that he’s scared because the antagonist, Eric,
is making stand in front of a dart board while another main character, Four,
throws knives at him. In the book it says “I look from Al’s wide eyes to his
shaking hands to the determined set of Fours jaw. Anger bubbles in my chest and
bursts from my mouth.” Tris was scared, but she didn’t want her obviously
depressed friend Al to be even more upset if people made fun of him for this
stunt of him being scared. This is an example of a good lesson that the book teaches
its readers.
One good example of this book teaching its reader about bravery
is when a bunch of people in the book have to jump off the roof of a building and
into a dark place and people are kind of scared to do it and people are really doubting
that Tris could do it because of the way she was born and raised, but she
sucked it up and jumped first. The book says “I look at the hole again. Goosebumps
rise on my pale arms and my stomach lurches. If I don’t do it now, I won’t be
able to do it at all. I swallow hard. I don’t think. I just bend my knees and
jump.” This is an example of bravery that the book teaches its readers.
People think that if they ban this book then children and
teens will stop reading it. But in the article “The Banned Books We Have Loved”
by Jen Doll, it says “Here’s the ironic and wonderful thing that the book
censors don’t seem to realize: banning books doesn’t in fact hurt them much at
all. In fact, it might spire more interest in them and sometimes sales to.” So
this shows why it would not be helpful to ban this book in the first place.
This topic is important to me because a lot of the books
that are being banned are books that I really enjoy or would like to read. I
like YA books and would be sad to see that a lot of them have been restricted
for people to read. I really find that “Divergent” was an appropriate book for
schools, even though most of the books being banned are not, so I don’t even
think that this book should be banned. This is why I think the book “Divergent”
by Veronica Roth should be banned from school libraries.
