This leads to really awful results: murders, violence and man hunting.īig issues that are stated in this book, are even more important now, in the age of ultra violence, murders, abuse, when children are out of control and human nature is revealing itself. Though, our main characters are just kids who were unfortunate enough to live on a tropical island after a plane-crash, it just amplifies the violence and struggle to obtain an order that they are facing. But mostly because it explained that in extreme conditions every peaceful human being is willing to kill his fellow in order to survive. This book was banned by government, schools and libraries of the USA for a bunch of reasons. It is important to read books like this nowadays, just to remember a long way to the point where everyone can be equal. “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a bit satiric, it colorfully describes people and places, but even more – relationships in society where “one person is much more important than another”. Finn and Sawyer live their lives in a small town near the Mississippi River, observing entrenched attitudes and racism of local people. It is told in by Huckleberry “Huck” Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer from “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”. We consider this book almost appropriate for children, so it is strange to think about it being banned due to objectionable language and “racist” terms and content. ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, by Mark Twain. The government of the USA used to think it was dangerous because of some “adult” scenes, but nowadays we must consider the importance of thinking (and talking) about such things as war, peace, love, death (and even sex), cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. This book was labeled as a “sex novel” before and strictly banned by schools and libraries. Frederic falls in love with Catherine Barkley, and two of them are fighting against the terrors of war, trying to save their love.
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The protagonist, American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant or Tenente, is an ambulance driver in Italy. Book tells us about terrors of World War I, love, duty and fear.
Now we call it classic, but it wasn’t always like that.
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Nowadays it is really popular not only because of interesting stile of Anthony Burgess, but also because of a rather big issues: teenage violence, raping, homeless children and terror of living in a “future” world of chaos and full control at the same time.
A novel was removed from several schools and libraries, hardly judged by the society. This is a dystopian novel that shows us ultra violent future world, leaded by protagonist, Alex, a teenager who shows his awful experience of living his hard life. This book, so famous and popular nowadays, was strictly banned back to mid-80s-late 80s due to it’s “objectionable” language. But that’s not the point of the book, while it encourage “rebellion” spirit of teens, it provides us with clever and interesting internal dialogue of the main character and does it’s best to present us the struggle of the young generation which is so unsure of it’s future. Yes the book has some “hot” words, yes it has some descriptions of activities where 16 years old boy shouldn’t be involved. Having some fun includes, alcohol, prostitutes, old girl-friends and, surprisingly, old teacher and younger sister. He decides to have some fun in New York while he has few days before coming home and have interaction with his parents explaining why he has been dropped out, again. Salinger takes us on a trip with unlucky student who just got expelled. But in 70s and 80s it was the most banned book in US high schools. Story of Caulden Holfield may not look like something we view in 2016 as vulgar, occult and full of violence and sexuality. This might be true but this top 10 of famous banned books presents well-known stories which were under censorship at some point and may have never seen the world. Even more, it often seems like words that writer has put on paper are used with the intent to shock the audience, not to entertain.
This statement basically concludes that some revolutionary ideas that author may present are not always widely accepted.
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How to impress the reader? How do you write a story that leaves a significant impact on person’s mind and thinking process? Great authors from different periods say pretty much the same thing: it doesn’t matter what do you write about as long as you touch readers’ hearts.