I read the “Book Banning in the United States: The Imprisonment of Every Student’s Potential to Thrive” written by Stephanie Pollock from the Arak Anthology. The write uses lots of paraphrase and quotations in the essay.
The write uses one of Bradbury’s characters describes the new perception of life as it is seen in his world in one passage from the novel said: “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other…A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind.” The writer uses this quotation to give his reader a glimpse of how different the world could be if book censorship was at such an extreme. He wants to use this example to compare with some public schools in the United States today have begun to limit children’s opportunities by banning certain books.
The one quotation is that “We can resist what we read as well as embrace or endorse it. Even when a text is contrary to our values, we can offer perspectives that might not otherwise be available to other readers in a class. To read a text does not mean one is seduced or polluted by it.” The quotation strongly support that students will not just simply follow what they have read about. Book banning will limit students’ abilities to think as adolescents which is not good for their growth.
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