Why to Kill a Mockingbird should not be Banned from School Curricula

Suppose you had kids that were offended that his/her school that was strongly supporting diversity agreed to have a book Implemented into the school that singled out a particular race. Wouldn’t you want to get the book banned or confront the school about it? I feel that the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee should be banned from Dublin High Schools Curriculum because it uses the N-word multiple times and accuses an African American man of rape of Caucasian women without clear evidence.

Stereotyping in the Novel

This novel is only stereotyping African Americans; basically, the novella is trying to get a message sent out saying that when we try to do right, Caucasians are going to do wrong to us. They are going to try to attempt to make us fail, but even though they push, we push back even harder. I’m speaking for African American students that feel offended by any racial problems happening at school or out of school. Speak up for yourself. No one knows you like you know yourself. Don’t let anyone stereotype you because of your skin color.

Potential Harm to Young Readers

The novel To Kill A Mockingbird is not meant for a child to read because their brain is still developing in might take it the wrong way and make him/her a person that will be races when they get older. This is shown by Alize Randall, too “It’s an adult fairy tale, that is often read by children and wildly different — and sometimes profoundly damaging–ways.” (Randall par.2) What she means is that the kid’s mindset might change into a killer or someone that disrespects Caucasians even if they weren’t races.

Changing Perspectives on Language and Racial Relations

When the child gets older, he wouldn’t want to have Caucasian friends. In the novel, they made it seem like it wasn’t okay to have sexual intercourse with an African American person if you were a Caucasian person, even if they agreed to it with you. This passage from the novel proves it “She was white, and she tempted a negro. She had done something that made our society unspeakable; she kissed a black man.” (Lee 270-273) They are very hateful towards the African americans people and don’t really care if they have a thing. They just want to ruin their lives and make them heartbroken in fear of not coming around a Caucasian person.

Works Cited

1. Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird. Arrow Books, 2010.

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