Student keeps a mini-library of banned books in her locker; with “due dates and everything.”
The collection includes:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
His Dark Materials trilogy
Sabriel
The Canterbury Tales
Candide
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
The Godfather
Mort
Interview with the Vampire
The Hunger Games
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
–among many others. After checking on the legality of such a thing though Yahoo! Questions, this librarian-in-the-making decided that she and her peers should be able to experience ideas that may be socially or politically inconvenient (her argument: “Most of the books were banned because they contained information that opposed Catholicism”). She then points out that lots of her freinds (who were “too chicken” to go to a public library) actually like reading now, thanks to her.
I can’t love this kid enough. Not that I advocate breaking any sort of school rule or defying your parents, but this one has the guts to back up her keen perspective on literature and society. When questioned as to the ethics of such a practice:
or is it a good thing because I am starting appreciation of the classics and truly good novels (Not just fad novels like Twilight) in my generation?
Rock on with your banned self!
Via Boing Boing: Kid keeping a lending library of banned books in her locker
One Comment
The Godfather *should* be banned. It is completely anti-Sicilian. Not that I’ve read it.