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On December 15, 1791, The Bill of Rights was added to the constitution, which included the first ten Amendments. These Constitutional Amendments were written and added to protect our free speech, right to bear arms, and the rights of criminals or wrongfully accused.
Recently, the government, school districts, and some parents, have been challenging the long-ago-decided fact — that Americans have the right to free speech detailed in the first amendment.
What would happen if the government succeeded in censoring and banning all books they deemed inappropriate or irrelevant to the nation’s current situation and viewpoints.
Since 2022, thousands of books have been banned, censored, or challenged in the United States, usually having to do with race, sexuality, and/or gender. These books include The Catcher In The Rye, by J.D Salinger, which is one of the most commonly censored books, due to language and mental health struggles. Another important challenged, and sometimes banned, book is that of 1984 by George Orwell, which is about Orwell’s vision of a totalitarian future, and the negative use of propaganda. Both of these novels can relate to things currently happening in our world, and can be an explanation which makes one wonder… Is the motive of banning them so that the things kept under wraps by our government aren’t brought up?
These books are important to the United States future, because if they succeed in banning the literature they dont want the public to see or talk about, what would become of our world? these stories are valuable because they are a comfort to some, and give hope to the public of a better world, but without that hope, survival as the nation we have been is unlikely and the dream of a better nation, futile.
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