... the Pulitzer Prize the following year. Although published thirty-five years ago, the message of the novel remains relevant to today's readers; commenting truthfully and sensitively about prejudice, racism, and discrimination, and for this reason I consider it a valuable novel for study and discussion. Others, however, beg to differ. In order to understand the problems with school censorship, one must know why ... feels racism is bad is trying to show why. Whatever the case may be, banning books because they contain uncomfortable or offensive language is no way to solve social ills such ...

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