We're reading banned/challenged book... by Heather Minton

You Will Put the Title Here by Author's Name

hminton — 2015-09-07 18:08:57 UTC

1. One to two sentence summary.

2. Why considered a classic or of "literary merit"?

3. Why/When/Where (Where may not be found) Challenged and/or banned.

Sons and Lovers Jaden Bishop

2015-09-11 13:01:16 UTC

This book is basically about and son who "loves" his mother in an affectionate way. Sounds very weird. So the son wants to get rid of his abusive father so he can have his mother all to himself.

A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

2015-09-11 13:01:17 UTC

1. Frederick Henry serves in the Italian ambulance corp during the Italian campaign in WWI, and leaves the military because he falls in love.

2. It was popular when first written and the theme was universal and timeless because it speaks of the common burdens of war such as death and tragedy.

3. Sexual content, violence and brutality, and belief of an indifferent universe

Teresa Saling

Animal Farm-Brent Smith

2015-09-11 13:01:41 UTC

A man has a farm that is filled with different animals. These animals are no ordinary animals. The animals overthrow the farmer and start their own government.

The Color Purple- Alice Walker

2015-09-11 13:02:13 UTC

1. A story of an African-american woman who is abused and is later married off. She dreams of escaping to Africa with her sister.

2. Talks about social issue of how african-americans are treated.

3. 1963- Ohio High school "anti-white"

Jeremy Fow

Brave New World

2015-09-11 13:02:16 UTC

London, nearly 600 years in the future. The human race has been almost totally industrialized and has been made into caste systems. Bernard Max who is at the top of the caste system breaks free from the D.H.C. and goes to live in a lighthouse to "purify" himself from the civilization.

Abigail Pierson

The Great Gatsby

2015-09-11 13:02:57 UTC

A man meets Gatsby in New York and sees his manners and ways of life as over the top while also finding him very interesting. Gatsby is crazy over a woman who is already married and undergoes extremes to win her love. The book was challenged due to language and sexual references.

Kia Benz

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

2015-09-11 13:03:31 UTC

1. A teen leads a gang which does violent crimes within the city and eventually to each other.

2. The book poses a a challenge that can be connected to all generations.

3. The book is very violent and has traumatic scenes

Tyrell Nickelson

Native Son Jaden Bishop

2015-09-11 13:04:03 UTC

This book is about a black man who is hated and harassed because of his color. So he goes on a killing spree.

Naked Lunch-Brent Smith

2015-09-11 13:04:49 UTC

A convicted felon who is a drug dealer running from the cops in Mexico. He makes he way to America and starts a new life.

The Grapes of Wrath

2015-09-11 13:05:45 UTC

This book is about the Joad family heading to California to find work. They encounter many issues with the migrant farming process and forming unions. The book is award winning and still popular, making it a classic. This book is banned because it was politically and socially controversial.

Emily Williams

The Satanic Verses

2015-09-11 13:05:57 UTC

Even Chapters- Plane blows up over the English Channel; one person grows a halo, the other becomes a demon.

Odd Chapters- Plane blows up over the English Channel; one person gets sent to jail by racist cops, the other is treated like a king.

- Brian Mitchell

Gone with the Wind by Magaret Mitchell

2015-09-11 13:06:22 UTC

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

2015-09-11 13:06:39 UTC

1. A dynamiter in the Spanish Civil War who is told to destroy a bridge.

2. The book tells a historical story full of struggle and hardships.

3. The book has violence ad laungage.

Tyrell Nickelson

In Cold Blood Truman Capote

2015-09-11 13:06:44 UTC

Trevor Knight

Four people were murdered in Holcomb, Kansans. There are hardly any clues. How will the case be solved?

Ulysses

2015-09-11 13:07:45 UTC

The actions of three major characters are scoped upon through one day in Dublin. The story takes place on Thursday, June 16, 1904.

Blake WIse

Rabbit, Run

2015-09-11 13:08:17 UTC

Harry "Rabbit" returns to his hometown after time away and speaks with his old basketball coach. Harry is fairly bored with his life and feels as though something is missing. Harry's family ends up in tragedy, including the death of his daughter.

The Jungle

2015-09-11 13:09:26 UTC

This book is based in the time right after the Industrial Revolution. It is about child labor laws and eventually revolutionizes the meat packing industry- Brian Mitchell

A Separate Peace-John Knowles

2015-09-11 13:09:33 UTC

1. A boy is jealous of his best friend and tries to compete with him, thus breaking his best friend's leg, and upon his friend dying during surgery, he finally came to terms with himself.

2. This book is a classic because it expresses relatable feelings of an envious teenager and is set during World War Two.

3. This book was banned because of physical violence.

Amber Bowman

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

2015-09-11 13:45:38 UTC

1. After a series of deaths, divorces, and affairs, a captain in the Army returns to the Brideshead Castle to recount his memories.

2. It is a classic because it recounts war times and older times that do not apply today.

3. It may have been challenged due to violence, sexual activity, and adultery.

Amber Bowman

The Catcher in the Rye

2015-09-11 13:47:31 UTC

The Catcher in the Rye 1. Holden is expelled from multiple schools and refuses to listen to those counceling him to clean up his act. He also has mental health issues and begins to partake in some exceptionally bad habits.He falls in love with multiple women and proceeds to hit rock bottom. He ends the story by informing the reader that he wishes to clean up his act. 2. This is considered of literary merit because Holden's story has affected many people and it addressed some basic issues that most people face at some point in their lives. 3. Explicit langage and immoral actions/1987 in a highschool in North Dakota

Stephanie Johnson

Women in Love

2015-09-11 13:49:22 UTC

A sequel to an earlier novel called The Rainbow. The book follows the loves and lives of two sisters. The story is full of emotional relationships as well as intense psychological and physical attractions.

Blake Wise

As I Lay Dying

2015-09-11 13:53:20 UTC

This book is about a woman's last wish to be buried in a town 40 miles away and her family's journey to get her to the cemetery. This is a classic because it is well known and widely read. This book is banned because of its use of profanity, references to abortion, and the cursing of God.

Emily Williams

Invisible Man

2015-09-11 15:04:25 UTC

A young black man from the South who does not fully understand racism in the world goes to college but gets expelled for talking to a white man about how blacks are treated. He moves to Harlem and becomes the orator of a communist group, know as the Brotherhood. He gets caught up in a riot and drove into a manhole, in the solitude of the manhole he begins to understand himself. He decideds to write a story, when he is finished he vows to enter the world again.

Cat

2015-09-11 16:10:05 UTC

Catch-22, by Joseph Heller

2015-09-11 16:10:05 UTC

1. Captain John Yossarian in the war with frequent flashbacks as he fights to survive the war where as he sees it everyone is trying to kill him. During WWII following the U.S. Air force.

2. Popularity and the timeless idea of "What does a person to do in a crazy society?"

3. Objectionable language

Teresa Saling

Catch

2015-09-11 16:10:05 UTC

Go Tell it on the Mountain

2015-09-11 16:28:05 UTC

John, the main character, his mother, and his younger brother all feel that the brother's father is not a good influence and they do not have a good relationship with him. While John is in town, his brother, Roy, is stabbed. The rest of the story shows the struggle of their religion and the brothers relationship with their father.

It is a classic because of the religion and being able to relate to the story.

This novel was banned because of the cussing, sex, masturbation, violence, and the book degrades women.

Abigail Mortensen

A Separate Peace

2015-09-11 16:28:20 UTC

1. A young boy in a private school is a very high academic achier, while his roommate is an athletic achiever. He believes they're friends, but this soon goes after both get hurt and one dies.

2. This is a classic because it inspires the reader about what it is like to be a teenager.

3. It may be banned because of the violence included.

Jessica Shelton

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

2015-09-11 16:29:30 UTC

Randle McMurphy finds himself in an insane asylum and stirs up the ward by introducing gambling. and encouraging the men to rebel against the Nurse's rules. This book is likely banned because mental illness is controversial, and it includes the mistreatment and suicide of them.

Brianna Atwood

Their Eyes Were Watching God

2015-09-11 16:29:59 UTC

1. The book takes place in 20th century Florida where Janie Crawford is "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger o the trigger of her own destiny." Janie is obsessed with true love. The book follows her through three marriages, the deaths of her husbands, and her mistreatment.

2. It is considered a classic because it fights the idea of racism

3. The book is banned because of its rejection of "racial uplift"

Kaitlyn Knight

The Jungle

2015-09-11 16:30:19 UTC

The Jungle is basically about a family of immigrants that come to America from Lithuania. They try to work in the meatpacking plants in Chicago, but they meet many difficulties.

Adam Beasley

Go Tel it on the Mountain

2015-09-11 16:30:43 UTC

1. Shows the Christian Church play in African American lives

2. It is considered a classic because it is a compelling story over race and religion.

3. It is banned probably because of racism and also someone gets raped, so that may be too graphic.

Jenna Ford

The Color Purple

2015-09-11 16:31:16 UTC

The book is about an African America woman who is faced with abuse and harsh conditions. This shows throughout her life how she wants love and compassion from wherever and whoever she can get it from. Her hope is to find her sister. This book would be a classic because of the time period, and showing the life of a slave. This would be banned because of the harsh conditions and abuse the woman, Celie, would go through.

Bree Tyler

Brideshead Revisited

2015-09-11 16:31:34 UTC

1. Charles Ryder falls in love with his sister's best friend, but once he meets her family he discovers that they are very strict Roman Catholics. Soon finding Charles has a homoerotic fixation for his girlfriend's brother, the plot takes a major twist.

2. It is considered a classic because of the close-knit characters and genuine story plot.

3. It was probably challenged because of the ideals implemented about homosexuality and religion.

Cooper Murphy

The Awakening

laurencantner — 2015-09-11 16:32:32 UTC

1. A women is living in the time where women were not really considered people and she would like to become sexually liberated in other words divorced.

2. considered a classic for the time period it was written in and for the miraculous event of a women ever being able to become sexually liberated

3. It was banned because in the time period that the book was written women were not considered to have a say in their own lives, they were to shut up and take care of the kids. This women just wanted freedom and that was "crazy".

Lauren Cantner

Rabbit, Run

2015-09-11 16:33:34 UTC

1. "Rabbit" is a 26 year old male who lives with his wife and child but finds his life very unsatisfying. He then moves south in search of a more fulfilling life and gets involved with a prostitute.

2. It's a classic because of the element of realism and unsatisfaction

3. It is banned because of the sexuality and controversial religious views.

Sandreia Breeden

The Satanic Verses

2015-09-11 16:33:50 UTC

Two heroes fall to Earth the day after terrorist blew up a plane on it's way to London. One of them is known to play up to as many as fifty gods as an actor, and the other has had great acting success in London. The story follows them as they travel from London to India, and to the Middle East. The book became a classic because of it's realism and literary merit. It is banned due to mockery of Muslim religion and other controversy.

Brianna Atwood

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

2015-09-11 16:35:18 UTC

1. A guy named John tries to write a book about what important people were doing when an atomic bomb goes off, but instead might bring the end of the world.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

2015-09-11 16:35:19 UTC

1. About a married woman whos husband gets paralyzed from the waist down due to a war injury.

2. It is considered a classic because it shows different types of relationships in depth.

3. It is probably banned due to the sexual content.

Jenna Ford

A Farewell to Arms

2015-09-11 16:35:24 UTC

During World War 1, a young American ambulance driver falls in love with an English nurse's aide while in a British hospital. Her husband had died a year earlier at war, and she shows interest in getting together with Henry, the ambulance driver.

Adam Beasley

An American Tragedy

2015-09-11 16:37:14 UTC

The book is about a man named named Clyde who is involved in an automobile accident. he then escapes town and falls for a factory girl who ends up being pregnant. This is considered a classic by the realistic fiction and time period ranging in 1925. This book has been banned because of the death and the talk of Industrial times.

Bree Tyler

The Sun Also Rises

2015-09-11 16:37:28 UTC

1. This books follows a group of American and British people who travel from Paris to Pamplona to watch bullfights at the Festival of Fermin.

Kaitlyn Knight

All the King's Men

2015-09-11 16:38:14 UTC

1. It is about a bullying political leader who forces its rich members to give more money so the poor may live better. Many thugs and political figures are included.

2. This is a classic because it's drawn from the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty.

3. It may be banned due to the political views expressed inside.

Jessica Shelton

In Cold Blood Ian McClure

ianmcclure480 — 2015-09-11 16:38:28 UTC

This non-fiction story is mainly about a series of murders that takes place in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas.

The Call of the Wild

2015-09-11 16:40:11 UTC

1. A prize 4 year old Saint-Bernard is stolen from his luxurious home and life and is sold into a ring of thieves looking to sell him to a gold miner.

2. It is considered a classic because of the important life lessons put forth in the story, implemented multiple times over.

3. It was probably challenged because of the intense emotion evoked and violence.

Cooper Murphy

Invisible Man

2015-09-11 16:40:37 UTC

1. A young black man in the south declares himself "invisible" because he refuses to let anyone see him. The story is following him struggling through a racist southern community.

2. The book is considered a classic because of the racist society that Americans created.

3. The book was banned because of the sensitive topics brought up such as racism

Sandreia Breeden

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

2015-09-11 18:50:59 UTC

1. Milkman is the first black child born in Mercy Hospital by the first black doctor. Milkman finds life boring due to his inability to fly. Milkman goes on a failed search for gold but instead finds solace in the history of his family. 2. It addresses how blacks were treated and provides the reader with Milkman's inspirational experience of overcoming life's struggles. 3.degrading language and sexually explict/1993/ Columbus, Ohio schools

Stephanie Johnson

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

2015-09-13 15:11:24 UTC

1. As told by a young Southerner, who wants to become a writer, a turbulent love-hate affair occurs between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman. It also tells of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.

2. It has considerable literary merit in its own right in that its theme of "alienation" exemplifies what "links significant writing in our time with the great literature of the past."

3. It was banned in South Africa in 1979. It was returned to La Mirada High School library (CA) in 2002 after a complaint about its sexual content prompted the school to pull the award-winning novel about a tormented Holocaust survivor.

~Morgan Hollen~

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

2015-09-13 15:55:18 UTC

1. It is of a daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the straitened confines of her domestic situation. Aside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities.

2. It includes the every day struggles/situations; a woman dealing with trying to balance the demands of individual fulfillment along with the demands of the community.

3. It was retained on the Northwestern Suburban High School District 214 reading list in Arlington Heights, IL. It was first published in 1899, this novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward for the stating of her Christian beliefs.

~Morgan Hollen~

Catch 22 by Joesph Heller

2015-09-13 22:02:10 UTC

1. Memory of World War II bombing missions. Narrates his own personal experiences from the war.

2. Realization of the worlds point of view on a crazy man.

3. Objectionable Language, 1972, Strongsville, OH

Brooke Wilburn

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

2015-09-13 22:15:18 UTC

1. A veteran living in easy circumstances, who witnessed the bombing of Dresden, Germany as a prisoner of war.

2. Commentary on society

3. Depraved, immoral, psychotic, vulgar, 1972 and still being banned everywhere, Oakland County, MI

Brooke Wilburn

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

2015-09-14 02:56:08 UTC

1. A teenage boy, Holden Caulfield, has been expelled from his private school, Pencey Prep. After getting in a fight with his roommate over a girl, Holden leaves school two days early to explore New York instead of going home. In New York he encounters teachers, prostitutes, his old girlfriend, and his sister.

2. The Catcher in the Rye captures the true feelings of a struggling teenager trying to grow up.

3. It was banned because of its obscene language, sexuality, and because people did not think it was appropriate for youth.

Carley Allen

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

2015-09-14 03:14:49 UTC

1. This book follows around three characters who live post World War 1 Paris, Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn, and Lady Brett. John And Robert are both in love with Brett, but she is engaged. John and Brett are in love, but they know they cannot be together.

2. This book shows what it was really like living in the "lost generation."

3. It was banned because of its inappropriate content. Teachers did not think children could handle it.

Carley Allen

1984, by George Orwell

2015-09-14 10:13:33 UTC

This book was written in 1948 and the it is about a vision of the future... a terrible future. The date of the future is 1984.

Inspired many generations.

to scary for younger viewers

Trevor Knight

An American Tragedy- Theodore Dreiser

2015-09-14 12:42:15 UTC

1. Clyde Griffiths is son of preachers on the street. After dead-end jobs, he goes to New York to work in a shirt factory. He gets promoted to supervisor of the stamp room, where he meets Roberta, who he impregnates. Soon after however, he meets Sophie, who is posh and wealthy. After two news reports, he tries to kill Roberta in a lake. She is knocked unconscious and he leaves her to die after almost having a change of heart.

2. This is a portrayal of a society who agrees with Clyde’s views.

3. 1927- Boston. For Affairs and not a real portrayal of humans. Burned in 1933 by Nazis.

Jeremy Fow

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

2015-09-14 13:36:56 UTC

1. Gertrude Morel is a woman with ambitions. However, she uses people to get to her goals. After getting married to an abusive alcoholic, Gertrude realizes the only way to reach her goals is to form a close relationship with her two eldest sons and use them.

2. Sparked controversy.

3. This book was banned due to the sexual content and the inappropriateness between the mother and her sons.

~Isabella Akins

1984 by George Orwell

2015-09-14 13:47:36 UTC

1. Winston Smith is a part of the Party. The party is a group who stays in power due to the fact that it can control a man's thoughts and actions. To be in control of his own mind, Winston created a diary which is against the law according to the Party.

2. It is a classic because of how Orwell portrayed the government.

3. It was banned because of the political ideas and the fact it was immoral.

~Isabella Akins

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

2015-09-14 16:09:49 UTC

1. A person is told to blow up a bridge in the Spanish civil war.

2. It shows the history of Spain.

3. violence and language

abigail mortensen

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

2015-09-14 16:35:34 UTC

In the 1950's Holden Caulfield has been kicked out of his private school. The events he narrates take place in the few days between the end of the fall school term and Christmas, when Holden is sixteen years old. There is no specific town.

-Walker

Silas Marner by George Elliot

2015-09-14 16:41:37 UTC

The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien Nolan Stroud

2015-09-14 17:21:12 UTC

1. About the quest to destroy a ring that holds the key to destroy all evil forever.

2. It is considered a classic for its age and religious connotations.

3. It is banned for the use of witchcraft.

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Nolan Stroud

2015-09-14 17:25:35 UTC

1. About Miller's life as a struggling author.

2. It a classic because of its story about a difficulty being overcome.

3. It is banned for obscenity.

We're reading banned/challenged book... by Heather Minton

You Will Put the Title Here by Author's Name

Sons and Lovers Jaden Bishop

<i>A Farewell to Arms, </i>by Ernest Hemingway

Animal Farm-Brent Smith

The Color Purple- Alice Walker

Brave New World

The Great Gatsby

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

Native Son Jaden Bishop

Naked Lunch-Brent Smith

The Grapes of Wrath

The Satanic Verses

Gone with the Wind by Magaret Mitchell

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Ulysses

Rabbit, Run

The Jungle

A Separate Peace-John Knowles

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Catcher in the Rye

Women in Love

As I Lay Dying

Invisible Man

<i>Cat</i>

<i>Catch-22, </i>by Joseph Heller

<i>Catch</i>

Go Tell it on the Mountain

A Separate Peace

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Their Eyes Were Watching God

The Jungle

Go Tel it on the Mountain

The Color Purple

Brideshead Revisited

The Awakening

Rabbit, Run

The Satanic Verses

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Lady Chatterley's Lover

A Farewell to Arms

An American Tragedy

The Sun Also Rises

All the King's Men

In Cold Blood Ian McClure

The Call of the Wild

Invisible Man

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Catch 22 by Joesph Heller

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

1984, by George Orwell

An American Tragedy- Theodore Dreiser

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

1984 by George Orwell

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

Silas Marner by George Elliot

The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien Nolan Stroud

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Nolan Stroud