Harper Lee’s critically renowned novel To Kill a Mockingbird has made its way onto the Library of Congress list of most banned or challenged books (Banned Books Week). Although, according to Lee herself, "To Kill a Mockingbird spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners” (Incredible Letter). To Kill a Mockingbird should not be banned or restricted by schools based on the un-American practices associated
The Book “To Kill a Mockingbird” is an appropriate book to teach at the tenth grade level. The book does say the “N-word” several times throughout the story, but it isn’t meant to offend anyone and is just showing how people used to talk when the story took place. There is no reason that the book should be banned from schools because the point of the book is to teach a moral lesson and nothing else. The book would be more appropriate if it was taught at the tenth grade level because of the maturity
sense of writers thought. Aristotle’s Poetics influenced “poetry” before the 19th century was usually less a technical designation for verse than a normative category of fictive or rhetorical art. In academic circles, the messages and the images should be getting through mythological, sociological, psychological, historical or other approach. When we read literature, the literature will travel along with us or it shows our ancient