The case for the defense of To Kill a Mockingbird

The novel, “To kill a Mocking Bird” is often censored by many and even banned because there was severe racism or bad languages and sexual scenes in it.

I think that we should not ban or censor things like this because it is what happens in reality. We cannot keep avoiding what happens in the reality that has bad language or whatever that is bad influence to children. I think it is important to read about them. To know what life is. Especially like the racial themes in the novel. This is an important issue that people need to be aware of. Just because someone thinks that there are unpleasant things in the story that they do not agree with or find it a bad education, they have no right to censor or ban the book. Making books like these clean does not help at all. They need to learn about the “bad” stuff as well to survive in this world.

              I think that censoring this book would be like erasing the history. This book had a great story line in it. It teaches people about how people were back then. How racism was severe. Erasing all this is as if racism never happened. I think that we still live in a society that is surrounded with racism happening everywhere. Efforts in to trying to erase or censor this book would be pointless. This type of books should be kept for people to read just as it is to learn about how the history was with racism. Knowing our history is an important thing. I think this issue in the book is necessary history in life that we need to keep learning about so it never gets repeated again.

              Censoring this book may change the real meaning to what the author might have intended to mean. If they are removing words that are not educational or whatever the reason is, People would not know how real life was back then. With all the bad language and Sexual scenes and violence is when the true story comes out. If the book was censored and has made the book completely clean by removing violent scenes, sexually scenes, and bad languages would people really understand how life was back then? I don’t think so. Once someone chooses to read something then they should accept it as it is and read it to understand the full meaning to it. 

DQ & SP's relationship

The relationship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza is interesting. Quixote seems to be more of the dominant figure in this relationship. However Quixote still relies a lot on Panza. This means that even though they are from different wealth or position they still rely on each other which show a real relationship. They always disagree on certain things because Quixote is quite different from Sancho in the sense that he is not as realistic. Although they seem to look up on each other, they seem to respect each other.  I think that they need each other. I say this because it seems like Quixote needs Sancho for advice and help with small simple things, because of his stubbornness he might not admit it, but he does. Quixote can be very stubborn sometimes. When he was very convinced that the windmill was a giant, he did not even listen to Sancho’s warnings. He could not admit until he saw with his eyes. They have parts where they bond and sometimes they are in total disagreement. Also Sancho seems to admire a bit of how Quixote acts towards things. He seems to be more in control and is able to protect and I think that is what Sancho likes about him that he stays with him for comfort. They do good for each other and complement each other. I would say their relationship is unique and complex.