Cujo By: Stephen King Books won't stay banned. They won't burn.
Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. Alfred Whitney Griswold Cujo, by Stephen King, is often banned and challenged in schools and public libraries because of the use of profanity, vivid details of violence, and other inappropriate material for specific ages of children. Stephen King born in Maine in 1947 lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana for a while parents separated lived with his mom in Maine married Tabitha Spruce in 1971 Cujo horror story nice dog named Cujo gets infected with rabies kills 4 people by the end Why was it banned? Violence gore sex and audultry profanity Almost all of King's books have been banned in the U.S. And they are on the list of 'most banned books' Persuasive Points pointless to ban books just buy it from a store young children can't understand it older children know what's right and wrong should be able to get it with a permission slip Stephen King’s book Cujo is the most often banned Stephen King book and one of the most often banned books overall because of its inappropriate material in some parts of the book.
Banning of Stephen King 'Different Seasons' banned for sex scenes 'Cujo' banned for sex and profanity librarian said 'it was the first time in 21 years a student has challenged a book' Many of King's novels are not found in school libraries Closing Thoughts books should not be banned from anywhere Stephen King is a great author Cujo is a great book to read for entertainment probably should not be taught in a school curriculum should be in school libraries The End.
Top 24 Most Banned Books By: S S Scary Stories More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, monsters, and many other scary things. By: Alvin Schwartz Why was it banned? It could have been banned because religious reasons and some thought it was too scary. A Wrinkle in Time Meg and her friends come in contact with unearthly creatures and a search for her father, who disappears while engaged in secret work for the government. By: Madeleine L’Engle It was banned because of wizardry. Why was it banned? It was banned because of wizardry.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The story of a young boy, his friends, and their lives on the Mississippi River. By: Mark Twain Why was it banned?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been banned because of the slang used to describe African Americans, and other “trashy”, and racist content. Harry Potter Books A fourth-year student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, longs to escape his hateful relatives, the Dursleys, and live as a normal wizard, but Harry doesn't know he is a normal wizard. Rowling Why were they banned? Harry Potter has been banned because some say they promote wizardry, witchcraft, and magic. Bridge to Terabithia The life of a ten-year-old boy in Virginia expands when he meets a newcomer who meets a untimely death trying to reach their hideout, Terabithia, during a storm.
By: Katherine Paterson Why was it banned? Its was banned because of the foul language, some say it promotes a fantasy world, and it has an upsetting ending.
Alice in Rapture, Sort of The summer before the seventh grade becomes the summer of Alice's first boyfriend, she finds out that love is the most mixed-up thing that can happen to you, especially when you don’t have a mom for advice. By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor It was banned because of an upsetting ending. Why was it banned?
It was banned because of an upsetting ending. My Brother Sam is Dead The tragedy strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel force while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral at Tory Town. By: James Collier It was banned because of profanity and slang. Why was it banned? It was banned because of profanity and slang. Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets. Principle Krupp once again turns into Captain Underpants in order to save the world from talking toilets and the Turbo Toilet 2000.
By: Dan Pilkey It was banned because of anti-family content. Why was it banned?
It was banned because of anti-family content. Goosebumps The Haunted School Tommy Frazer is new to the Bell Valley Middle School and he finds it hard to make friends; then he finds it hard to find anything with a maze of empty classrooms that have voices crying for help behind the walls. Stine It has been banned because some people say it is too scary. Why was it banned? It has been banned because some people say it is too scary.
A Day No Pigs Would Die To a thirteen-year-old farm boy from Vermont whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early by learning “doing what’s got to be done,” especially regarding his pet who cannot produce litter. By: Robert Newton Peck Description of pigs being slaughtered. Why was it banned? Description of pigs being slaughtered.
The Great Gilly Hopkins An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone to be friendly. It is banned because of language and character conduct. Why was it banned? It is banned because of language and character conduct. The Witches A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is a wizard expert, together fool a witches’ plot to destroy the earth’s children by turning them into mice. By: Roald Dahl Why was it banned? It has been banned because of religious objection to witches and violence.
Blubber Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it’s like when she, too, becomes a target. By: Judy Blume Because of the language and physical maturity. Why was it banned? Because of the language and physical maturity.
Julie of the Wolves While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack. By: Jean Craighead George It is banned because the main character gets married at age 13. Why was it banned? It is banned because the main character gets married at age 13.
The Outsiders Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents’ death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting society in in which they find themselves “outsiders.” By: S.E. Hinton Why was it banned? It was banned because of the abuse of drugs, language, and violence depicted in the book.
The Pigman Two young people befriend an older man, Mr. Pignati, and learns his awful secret. By: Paul Zindel Why was it banned? It has been banned because of its portrayal of liars, cheaters, and stealers. The Boy who Lost his face David receives a curse from an elderly woman he has helped his schoolmates attack, and he regrets that he does what others want him to for the sake of popularity. By: Louis Sachar It has been banned because it contains mysticism. Why was it banned?
It has been banned because it contains mysticism. A Light in the Attic A collection of humorous poetry. By: Shel Silverstein It has been banned because it encourages messiness and disobedience. Why was it banned? It has been banned because it encourages messiness and disobedience. James and the Giant Peach James enters a big peach as a house a finds wonderful friends.
By: Roald Dahl Why was it banned? It has been banned because of mysticism and references to tobacco and whiskey. Crazy Lady As he tries to come to terms with his mothers death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcast, an alcoholic, and her restarted son By: Jane Leslie Conly It has been banned because it contains offensive language. Why was it banned? It has been banned because it contains offensive language. The Face on the Milk Carton A photograph of a missing child on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity. By: Caroline Cooney Why was it banned?
It has been banned because of the topic of abducted children and challenge to authority. Summer of My German Soldier Sheltering an escaped prisoner of war is the beginning of some experiences for a twelve-year-old girl in Arkansas. By: Bette Greene It has been banned because of racism and offensive language. Why was it banned? It has been banned because of racism and offensive language.
How to Eat Fried Worms Two boys make a bet about worms. The bet is to eat 10 fried worms in 10 days. Do they do it? By: Thomas Rockwell It has been banned because it encourages inappropriate behavior. Why was it banned? It has been banned because it encourages inappropriate behavior.
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Sherman Alexie’s young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian was the second most challenged book in 2012. Banned Books Week draws attention to the. Too often, the group taking offense does not represent the voice of the majority. Many people voice their support of students reading about sensitive issues so long as the literature is age appropriate. Yet, it’s next to impossible to agree on where to draw the line. The blurb for Alexie’s novel speaks to the depth of its thematic material. Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
Born with a variety of medical problems, he is picked on by everyone but his best friend. Determined to receive a good education, Junior leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town where the only other Indian is is the school mascot. Despite being condemned as a traitor to his people and enduring great tragedies, Junior attacks life with wit and humor and discovers a strength inside of himself that he never knew existed. Banned Books = Blindness Schools are continually adding more young adult books as required-reading to their curriculum. The main argument in doing so involves the accessibility of the language and situations the characters face.
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Those opposed to this practice often note young adult books do not challenge readers as much as reading classic works of literature. In my experience as an English teacher, both arguments hold merit. The number of struggling and reluctant readers continues to grow. Alexie’s semi-autobiographical character comes to life with the authentic voice of a fourteen-year-old. Junior’s voice just wouldn’t ring true otherwise.
“There is another world, but it is in this one.” –W.B. Yeats The novel’s Yeats epigraph speaks to the richly-layered story. Yes, the language is raunchy at times, but to discount a work’s literary merit based on a character’s dialogue shows little foresight. Junior’s language reveals much about his socioeconomic status. Demanding “cleaner” words is just one of many ways to elevate a supposedly right way of seeing and experiencing the world while ignoring other viewpoints.
“And if God hadn’t wanted us to masturbate, then God wouldn’t have given us thumbs. So I thank God for my thumbs.” “You should approach each book — you should approach life — with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.” “I used to think the world was broken down by tribes. By Black and White.
By Indian and White. But I know this isn’t true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.” Banned Books = Bullying Here are a couple of negative Amazon reviews representative of reactions to the language in Alexie’s book: It’s too shallow for high schoolers and too vulgar for junior highers. And the vulgarity is gratuitous. It didn’t strike me as having any purpose other than to shock some teens and get them to think, “This book is cool, man! Shakespeare never uses the f-word!!” Is anyone edified by reading about the nocturnal addictions of a teen boy?
Has our culture really become so debased? This book won several awards! I simply cannot believe it. Not sure why this story needed to be told in the “raw” language of todaymy son is punished when he says something “sucks” and this book is full of things that “suck” in the author’s opinion Despite the objections I have to it; it was entertaining and documents what life for an American Indian kid is like on the “rez”, which I don’t think kids (or anyone) in mainstream America have given much thought to. This book could be a winner in my book if the author “classed” it up and didn’t stoop to the low level of writing just to get kids to read it.
How it got to be an award-winner is beyond me. As an educator, I can attest to any number of ways to appropriately handle such books in the classroom.
When students see teachers model professional discussions on hard-hitting issues, they become better critical thinkers. Too often, those who sit in favor of banned books look at the world through rose-tinted glasses. Banned Books = Intolerance Personally, I would teach this book to high school freshmen and beyond. At the middle school level, the issue gets a bit more dicey.
I’ve even heard of students as young as ten being required to read it. Junior is so much more than a typical teenager. He comes to this realization by the end of the book: I realized that, sure, I was a Spokane Indian. I belonged to that tribe. But I also belonged to the tribe of American immigrants.
And to the tribe of basketball players. And to the tribe of bookworms. And the tribe of cartoonists. And the tribe of chronic masturbators.
And the tribe of teenage boys. And the tribe of small-town kids. And the tribe of Pacific Northwesterners. And the tribe of tortilla chips-and-salsa lovers. And the tribe of poverty. And the tribe of funeral-goers.
And the tribe of beloved sons. And the tribe of boys who really missed their best friends. It was a huge realization. And that’s when I knew that I was going to be okay. What are your thoughts on age-appropriate literature?signoff/signoff Related articles. Leora, I experienced feelings of forcing language on students when I taught Chris Crutcher’s young adult book stotan!
When students were in groups reading aloud one time, I observed how a particular gathering of ninth grade girls really blushed through certain parts of the book (like when a young man describes a girl’s butt). That incident taught me to be more cognizant of how to use certain texts in the classroom. Even so, when parents object to state-approved books it can be very hard for a teacher to come up with individualized lesson plans. Indeed, can a teacher realistically be expected to do so if the book is on a state-approved reading list? Trouble also arises when book committees start to pick more and more “safe” books, which is a form of censorship.
I’ve been reading up some on “banned” books this week, and trying to understand how age appropriateness fits in, especially with regards to availability in school libraries. The Alexie book is a great example.
From your comments (I haven’t read it myself), it seems appropriate for perhaps junior high & older, but too mature language-wise for middle school and younger. But does not purchasing it in the younger schools constitute banning? There’s got to be some level of age screening, right? There’s no John Grisham or Stephen King or E.L.
James (that I know of!) at the elementary school as these are clearly adult books. I think the YA genre is tricky: while the overall writing level is accessible to younger kids, the language and topics often are not. So where do we draw the line? Some of these reading standards that we are failing with, I have to wonder if it has anything to do with forced readings. We are forcing children to conform to our views of what is literature and such. My daughter had Lord of the Flies for summer reading this year. She hated it.
Through the reports and such she had to write I was able to see the story from her eyes. Here is the thing, certain books may be classics but they are not relatable to the people reading them. The themes maybe there but they require more work to uncover. Books like this approach similar themes to classic works but in a way that is more approachable to the youth of today.
Maybe curriculum should be changed to find books with similar themes, classics and modern and compare and contrast them in the classroom. Or is that putting too much thought into the approach? Jon, I also hated Lord of the Flies with a passion. I didnt’ have to read it in school, but heard a lot about it and picked it up on my own. It’s one of the few books I just couldn’t get into to finish. One alternative to full-class readings is to use literature circles where students can pick from a seven or so books that they will then read in common with their group.
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It’s a lot of work for the teacher the first few times literature circles are implemented, but worth the increased student engagement. It allows for greater subject matter in the reading as well as books that cover a variety of reading levels. However, there are still students who will complain they don’t like the books and cannot relate to them. Teenagers love to let teacher know that no matter what!
In general I am against book banning. I can think of a couple of exceptions I would make. I think age appropriate reading is a good thing.
Don’t make available books to young children that are clearly meant for adults. I think the book on bullying should not be banned for the language it uses. That’s the language that is actually used so why censor it? If you are going to deal with the real issue at hand, deal with the language that goes along with it. This is a case where parents and their children should read and discuss it together. I’m with Jay Dickens on this one.
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I think not purchasing books is different from banning books. Libraries, especially school libraries, have to make decisions on how to allocate funds. I think if they are short on funds, they may stick to literature that is not particularly controversial. However, we have to acknowledge that public libraries are supposed to house a wide variety of books of interest to the public. They should have both controversial and enlightening books in them.
People should be able to explore an entire universe of thought by simply going to their public library. It’s supposed to be a place where children with restrictive parents can learn about the real world (despite their parents’ denial that it exists). My own parents always figured, if we were reading, it was a good thing, so they didn’t look too closely at what we checked out. I think kids view things through their own lenses, and when they read books that have controversial topics or language, they may not be as “traumatized” as parents think because their own lenses aren’t deep enough for them to necessarily get all the nuances/implications (adult readers get). And when a young person does read something that bothers them, the reaction shouldn’t necessarily be to panic and say the book is bad. The better reaction may be to find out what about the subject matter or language is troubling and help them deal with that.
Unfortunately, that’s one of the hard parts of parenting. And it’s a lot easier to say this book shouldn’t be read by kids than to have a potentially tough conversation. I have serious heartburn over banned books because the intent isn’t what is represented. It’s usually about someone passing moral judgment upon the written word or book, not the message it’s trying to convey. We live in a world that has difficulties, not to allow for different voices to express a point of view doesn’t allow for valuable and varying opinions and insight.
Coarse language is a fact of life. It’s here to stay, to prevent it from being read is just foolish. An individual will hear and read it elsewhere. Wouldn’t it be best to have it referenced in the proper context? It seems as if the discussion with regard to ‘age appropriate’ tends to revolve around language.
‘To fuck or not to fuck!’ Are we so naive to think children are not exposed to that language. They might not be allowed to say it at home but you can be sure they do at school. So, the question is where on the scale or gratuitous to realistic do we put the mark. Children are, I think, quite sophisticated language wise and they know if they’re being spoken down to. If you’re writing a fourteen year old character, surely you should write the way a fourteen year old would speak.
If so, you can be damn sure there will be a fuck or two in there, although probably not in front of the parents. Parents don”t always know what is best for their child, even when they think they do. They often rely on teachers to make parenting decisions.
As a teacher, I know this from experience. (This is especially true when the parents are drug addicts, alcoholics, or people with low IQs. Or a combination of all three.) As far as the issue of finding age-appropriate books for children, I think what needs to be considered is the intellectual age of the child. Some children can read Shakespeare and love it, while others prefer something easier, like a comic book! Finding a happy medium and making it required reading is a tough decision educators must make – regardless of the relevance to the issues in today’s society. BTW, Jeri, you can tell your tech fixer that the problem I was having has been resolved! ? Also tell him/her “thanks”!
I remember being told that some places had banned “Catcher in the Rye’ but the issue never arose in my school, we read it an wondered what the big deal was all about. Managing how and who reads books because content may be inappropriate is one thing, but banning a book is a very final and closed way to manage a difference of opinion. My biggest challenge with book banning is that I have yet to come across a discussion where I thought, yup, that sounds like trash. Usually what I think is, yup, that sounds uncomfortable, but so is life at times.
1) In a small group, select a book from the. 2) Find the book in the library or take an excerpt from the Internet. I often find brief excerpts from. 3) Provide a brief overview of the book and why the book was challenged or banned.
4) Read an excerpt. Students are required to provide a brief background on the excerpt. Anyconnect vpn for mac download. I ask they do not read the most inappropriate or questionable passage. Here is a form I give to students to prepare in advance for the Banned Books Read-Aloud. My Banned Books Read-Aloud Student Handout. Final Thoughts on Censorship Rebecca Duvall's is a great resource for teachers safeguarding the students' right to read.
Teachers also need to be prepared on how they might handle a censorship issue in their classroom. The article ' from Education World is a great resource if you are dealing with a censorship issue in your classroom. 1) In a small group, select a book from the. 2) Find the book in the library or take an excerpt from the Internet. I often find brief excerpts from.
3) Provide a brief overview of the book and why the book was challenged or banned. 4) Read an excerpt. Students are required to provide a brief background on the excerpt. I ask they do not read the most inappropriate or questionable passage. Here is a form I give to students to prepare in advance for the Banned Books Read-Aloud. My Banned Books Read-Aloud Student Handout. Final Thoughts on Censorship Rebecca Duvall's is a great resource for teachers safeguarding the students' right to read.
Teachers also need to be prepared on how they might handle a censorship issue in their classroom. The article ' from Education World is a great resource if you are dealing with a censorship issue in your classroom.
1) In a small group, select a book from the. 2) Find the book in the library or take an excerpt from the Internet.
I often find brief excerpts from. 3) Provide a brief overview of the book and why the book was challenged or banned. 4) Read an excerpt. Students are required to provide a brief background on the excerpt. I ask they do not read the most inappropriate or questionable passage. Here is a form I give to students to prepare in advance for the Banned Books Read-Aloud.
My Banned Books Read-Aloud Student Handout. Final Thoughts on Censorship Rebecca Duvall's is a great resource for teachers safeguarding the students' right to read. Teachers also need to be prepared on how they might handle a censorship issue in their classroom. The article ' from Education World is a great resource if you are dealing with a censorship issue in your classroom. 1) In a small group, select a book from the.
2) Find the book in the library or take an excerpt from the Internet. I often find brief excerpts from. 3) Provide a brief overview of the book and why the book was challenged or banned.
4) Read an excerpt. Students are required to provide a brief background on the excerpt. I ask they do not read the most inappropriate or questionable passage. Here is a form I give to students to prepare in advance for the Banned Books Read-Aloud. My Banned Books Read-Aloud Student Handout. Final Thoughts on Censorship Rebecca Duvall's is a great resource for teachers safeguarding the students' right to read. Teachers also need to be prepared on how they might handle a censorship issue in their classroom.
The article ' from Education World is a great resource if you are dealing with a censorship issue in your classroom.
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