Entry No. 3

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Examples of a Book that was banned.

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1. The Call of the Wild


Jack London's 1903 Klondike Gold Rush-set adventure was banned in Yugoslavia and Italy for being "too radical" and was burned by the Nazis because of the author's well-known socialist leanings.

-I cannot totally agree with banning of this kind of book but one thing for sure there would be still a positive and negative effect either we ban it or not.

2. The Grapes of Wrath

Though John Steinbeck's 1939 novel, about a family of tenant farmers who are forced to leave their Oklahoma home for California because of economic hardships, earned the author both the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, it also drew ire across America because some believed it promoted Communist values. Kern County, California—where much of the book took place—was particular incensed by Steinbeck's portrayal of the area and its working conditions, which they considered slanderous.

- I would agree that this book would be ban because for my own understanding, publishing this kind of books would lead to fallacy. 

3. ULYSSES

James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses may be one of the most important and influential works of the early 20th century, but it was also deemed obscene for both its language and sexual content—and not just in a few provincial places. In 1921, a group known as The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice successfully managed to keep the book out of the United States, and the United States Post Office regularly burned copies of it. But in 1933, the book's publisher, Random House, took the case—United States v. One Book Called Ulysses—to court, and ended up getting the ban overturned.

- Banning this kind of genre is a good idea, its because not all readers are mentally at the right age to understand this kind of things most especially it contains obscenity in both language and sexual content. Readers at a young age if discovered this book and get attached to it could get their mind dirty for some students nowadays are raised to be a bookworm.

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