At first, I want to say Mr. Eaton’s acting skill is pretty awesome, when he rushed into Mr. Ward’s room and started to collect our book into his bags, and his face pretended very angry. At that time, I really thought the book let us get in trouble, and fell into Mr. Eaton’s trick.
Back to the topic, should schools ever ban books from their libraries or classrooms? From my perspective, it depends on many factors school need to consider about before schools decide to ever ban books from their libraries or classroom.
Firstly, the age or self-censorship of students in the school. For example, let Grade 8 students and Grade 11 students read <Catcher in the Rye>. Grade 8 students don’t have enough English level to understand the story, but maybe they have already known some bad words from some movies and children in adolescence are very sensitive with sex. So when they are watching the book, they may just focus on “Goddam” “F**k”, and get negative influence from the book. However, Grade 11 students are mature therefore we can find the deeper meaning behind the book. If students in the school can not get the level which they can find connotation in the book such as <Catcher in the Rye>, schools should ban those books.
Secondly, it relies on the context in books and teachers’ opinions. Teacher’s English level and self-censorship is much better than us. For example, Mr Ward said he won’t teach us <Lolita> because he feel uncomfortable when he read it and he is sure about if he teach us <Lolita>, he will be fired by Mr. Eaton. If I don’t exactly understand the case and need to make decision, follow some guys which are better than me is a good choice I think. The main idea is similar as the first one, in this situation, school should ban books.
However, I don’t think school need to banned those book forever (I mean books consist of negative influence but still have deeper positive meaning which we don’t get it yet), when we got the higher level, school should lift the ban of them, so we can learn more and reflect ourselves or society.
Back to the topic, should schools ever ban books from their libraries or classrooms? From my perspective, it depends on many factors school need to consider about before schools decide to ever ban books from their libraries or classroom.
Firstly, the age or self-censorship of students in the school. For example, let Grade 8 students and Grade 11 students read <Catcher in the Rye>. Grade 8 students don’t have enough English level to understand the story, but maybe they have already known some bad words from some movies and children in adolescence are very sensitive with sex. So when they are watching the book, they may just focus on “Goddam” “F**k”, and get negative influence from the book. However, Grade 11 students are mature therefore we can find the deeper meaning behind the book. If students in the school can not get the level which they can find connotation in the book such as <Catcher in the Rye>, schools should ban those books.
Secondly, it relies on the context in books and teachers’ opinions. Teacher’s English level and self-censorship is much better than us. For example, Mr Ward said he won’t teach us <Lolita> because he feel uncomfortable when he read it and he is sure about if he teach us <Lolita>, he will be fired by Mr. Eaton. If I don’t exactly understand the case and need to make decision, follow some guys which are better than me is a good choice I think. The main idea is similar as the first one, in this situation, school should ban books.
However, I don’t think school need to banned those book forever (I mean books consist of negative influence but still have deeper positive meaning which we don’t get it yet), when we got the higher level, school should lift the ban of them, so we can learn more and reflect ourselves or society.