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3Dominiq Gillie said: " Banning books at no time is actually good. It should depend on the children themselves, instead of their parent’s decision. After I have read and heard of some books that were banned, I realized something. They were either banned for either surface r Banning books at no time is actually good. It should depend on the children themselves, instead of their parent’s decision. After I have read and heard of some books that were banned, I realized something. They were either banned for either surface reasons or under the surface reasons. Surface being violence or sexuality, beneath surface being things like racism or the depiction of the past cultures. But I stand with the notion that at no point and time should books be banned. Even if their content is controversial, its the right of the readers to decide whether its suitable for them. Just like movies, the viewer or in this case readers, should be able to decide the book's suitability for themselves. The act of Banning books actually makes people want to read those books. They think to themselves, hey they banned that book, I wonder what their trying to hide from me? So now people are still going to read them, so this means it doesn't matter if they are banned or not, it is futile to ban them.

Books are meant to inspire us, drive us, make us feel something we've never felt before. Sometimes even to enhance our experiences or possibly even understand them. I read this book called My Trip to Alpha One, about a boy who visits his grand-parents. Which after while turn out to be cyborgs, and his real grandma and pa are being kept in stasis. Boy eventually saves them, but the whole time before, he could let the cyborgs know, he had to wait. Now in 9th I read this book called Huckleberry Finn, which is a banned book. The main character Huck reminds me of the boy in My Trip to Alpha One. Due to the fact that they both could do anything until they could. The Boy in Alpha One needed to wait to catch the cyborgs off guard, Huck needed to wait til his dad was gone before he attempted to escape. Now I didn't realize that the two books shared this or that Huck Finn would even lead me to this conclusion, til I read it. So now think of a book that you have read and then a book your reading now. Is there something you understand better because you read it, I guarantee there is. ...more "

May 15, 2009 11:42AM · see review