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Book Burning
Why ? Before the printing press, burning
books was an effective form of censorship.
Each book was handmade, so there were only a few books. You could control ideas and information by burning books.
Recently governments have used book burnings to intimidate people and show their power.
May 10, 1933 in Germany
University students burned more than 25,000 volumes of “un-German” books.
Nazi leaders gave speeches, bands played, and people cheered as books were tossed into the fire.
Video of Nazi Book Burning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ppe9WBLu_w
What was “un-German”? Anything about another type of
government. Anything written by an author from
another country. Any German writing that was against
Nazi leadership. Any books by Jewish authors.
Heinrich Heine
A German Jewish poet He wrote a play called Almansor. The play has a famous line, “Dort,
wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.“
In English - "Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people."
May 10, 1933 in the U.S.
In New York, 100,000 people marched for six hours to protest the Nazi’s book burning.
Comic Book Burning 1948
15 years later, hundreds of comic books were burned in West Virginia and New York.
The news reported the comic book burnings and many other cities burned their children’s comic books.
2010In August 2010, a Florida church
announced it would burn copies of the Qur’an on September 11.
They changed their minds.
2011Another church in decided to
burn the Qur’an.They did on March 20, 2011.
Banned Books
Banned books are books that people don’t want other people to read.
Sometimes they want the books to be burned.
Sometimes they want them to be taken out of school libraries.
Sometimes they want teachers to stop reading the books in school.
Banned BooksPeople who want to ban books think they are keeping America safe for children.
They think that these books can make kids become bad if kids read them.
Other people think Americans have the right to free speech and that people shouldn’t control what other people read or say.
They think people should only be able to tell their own children what they can or cannot read, not everyone else’s kids.
Banned Book Week Banned Book Week is
celebrated every year by people who want to stop people from banning books.
They encourage everyone to talk about this topic and to read books that they feel comfortable with reading.
This year’s celebration is Sept. 30 – Oct. 6.
It is the 30th anniversary of Banned Book Week.
Here are some banned book titles.
Huckleberry Finn
Language, and racism
Lord of the Flies
Swearing, violence
Harry Potter
Witchcraft, violence
Dictionary Inappropriate
words
The Light in the Attic
Disrespect, horror, and violence One of the most banned books in the
1990s
A Wrinkle in Time
The battle between good and evil is too close to religious views
The Diary of Anne Frank
It’s a downer.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
The author has the same name as a Marxist and no one checked to see if it was the same person.
James and the Giant Peach
Violence
The Witches Violence, witchcraft
Little Women
Too feminist
To Kill a Mockingbird
Swearing, racism
Bridge to Terabithia
Swearing, negative view of life, death, witchcraft, and disrespectful to adults
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Scary, graphic pictures
Halloween ABC
It’s about Halloween.
Stephen King
Swearing, violent, scary, witchcraft
The Giver
Euthanasia and suicide
The Twilight Series
Vampires and werewolves
The Hunger Games
Too scary and violent
The Lorax
It makes loggers look bad
Speak
It deals with rape
The Chronicles of Narnia
Insulting to religions Rebellious children Magic
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Oompa-Loompas used to be African Pygmies
and some people thought Roald Dahl was being racist
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Too violent, scary, witchcraft
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Swearing, death, dark themes
Captain Underpants Series
It’s about underpants, toilets, and bathroom stuff – Ewwww!
Call of the Wild
Animal cruelty, violence
The BFG
Farting, kidnapping,disobeying parents
Whirligig
Drinking, drunk driving, attempted suicide
Dangerous Girls
Vampires
The Sign of the Beaver
Racism
Discussion
What do you think? Is there a valid reason to burn or ban
books? Where is the line? Where are we headed in the future?
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