Censorship: Who should decide what kids read?
Imagine you walk into a
library to check out the book you’ve wanted to get for weeks and now it’s
finally available! You grab it and
try to contain your excitement. As
you quickly walk to the check-out counter the librarian eyes your book and
glares at you. When you place down
your book, she tells you that you can’t check out that book.
It has been censored. Many
books are being censored and kids are not allowed to read them because of mature
topics. Censorship has been
happening all over American but it is a very bad idea.
Censorship monitors what young people read which could limit access to
imagination. In addition, authors
may have trouble making money and need to change the plots of their
stories. Censorship
is not beneficial to young readers.
Therefore monitoring what children read is a violation and should be
forbidden.
First off, if books filled with magic and fantasy are removed from
Children’s shelves, kids would have a limited imagination.
In other words, since children aren’t reading these books, they would be
experiencing less fantasy and they would have less access to an
imagination. For example, if
young people didn’t ready Harry Potter because it was censored they would never
experience magic and never even imagine that someone as young as them could
defeat evil and save the world.
In addition, they would believe less in things like Santa Claus and the
Tooth Fairy. They would lose their
innocence faster which is a wonderful part of
childhood.
Furthermore, authors would
make less money and in my opinion write boring and less exciting books.
By this I mean that authors would have to change their style of writing
so that people would be able to buy their books. For instance, if the Harry Potter books
were restricted, then JK Rowling would have to write something different to make
money. Since she needs the money,
she would write something that wouldn’t have to be censored and JK Rowling
probably wouldn’t be as popular of an author because should wrote less exciting
books.
Another negative aspect of
censorship is that good children would find unethical and dishonest ways to
read desired banned books. I
think it is likely that many kids would sneak books they aren’t supposed to
read. Censorship will most
likely not prevent a child from reading a book they want to read and it may
cause legal trouble for the children and their families.
Parents, not the government,
should have the right to decide what their child should and should not
read.
When considering censorship on books, I strongly urge you to pick
the wise choice of forbidding the government to control what kids read. Censorship limits the development of
imagination by monitoring what fantasy books kids read.
Also, censorship would have a negative financial impact on authors. Furthermore, good children would
still read the censored books they wanted to read.
As you can see, censorship
would violate the freedom of children to read what they
choose.
library to check out the book you’ve wanted to get for weeks and now it’s
finally available! You grab it and
try to contain your excitement. As
you quickly walk to the check-out counter the librarian eyes your book and
glares at you. When you place down
your book, she tells you that you can’t check out that book.
It has been censored. Many
books are being censored and kids are not allowed to read them because of mature
topics. Censorship has been
happening all over American but it is a very bad idea.
Censorship monitors what young people read which could limit access to
imagination. In addition, authors
may have trouble making money and need to change the plots of their
stories. Censorship
is not beneficial to young readers.
Therefore monitoring what children read is a violation and should be
forbidden.
First off, if books filled with magic and fantasy are removed from
Children’s shelves, kids would have a limited imagination.
In other words, since children aren’t reading these books, they would be
experiencing less fantasy and they would have less access to an
imagination. For example, if
young people didn’t ready Harry Potter because it was censored they would never
experience magic and never even imagine that someone as young as them could
defeat evil and save the world.
In addition, they would believe less in things like Santa Claus and the
Tooth Fairy. They would lose their
innocence faster which is a wonderful part of
childhood.
Furthermore, authors would
make less money and in my opinion write boring and less exciting books.
By this I mean that authors would have to change their style of writing
so that people would be able to buy their books. For instance, if the Harry Potter books
were restricted, then JK Rowling would have to write something different to make
money. Since she needs the money,
she would write something that wouldn’t have to be censored and JK Rowling
probably wouldn’t be as popular of an author because should wrote less exciting
books.
Another negative aspect of
censorship is that good children would find unethical and dishonest ways to
read desired banned books. I
think it is likely that many kids would sneak books they aren’t supposed to
read. Censorship will most
likely not prevent a child from reading a book they want to read and it may
cause legal trouble for the children and their families.
Parents, not the government,
should have the right to decide what their child should and should not
read.
When considering censorship on books, I strongly urge you to pick
the wise choice of forbidding the government to control what kids read. Censorship limits the development of
imagination by monitoring what fantasy books kids read.
Also, censorship would have a negative financial impact on authors. Furthermore, good children would
still read the censored books they wanted to read.
As you can see, censorship
would violate the freedom of children to read what they
choose.