... action against books that they feel will have negative effects on their children's development. I have a hard time understanding why they believe the Harry Potter series will have negative effects on their children's development. I have since found that there is not a very clear policy on censorship of children ... needs to incorporate creativity and imagination. It should not discourage it. Furthermore, schools should not ban children from reading books such as the Harry Potter series. These types of books are designed to entertain. I believe that censorship in elementary schools is nec...

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... (in which Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione struggle to save the world and win the house cup.) To highlight the limitations of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,"" it is instructive to compare it with another children's fantasy novel in which a neophyte wizard attends a school for wizards- ... Ursula Le Guin's, "A Wizard of Earthsea."" http://dannyreviews.com/h/Harry_Potter.html. He says that Rowling reworks superficial popular ideas about magic in an ad hoc fashion, Le Guin constructs a fully-fledged, but consistent and coherent ... integral part of the imagined world and anc...

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... encourages children to read more. Conservatives, especially Christian conservatives, are very strict in their way of thinking. They believe children imitate what they see. One argument against children reading Harry Potter books is that it encourages children to break rules, and later they could break laws. For example, they see the main character, Harry, deliberately breaking into forbidden places and putting ... himself in dangerous situations. Thankfully, there is a majority of people who is against the censorship of Harry Potter books and thinks a child can differentiate fantasy fro...

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... since the first book was released, but I was busy reading school books and other books which I had already chosen to read. So finally this summer I decided to read the Harry Potter books because since the fifth book released this summer and had some amazing sales and reviews I decided to read them. I obviously started out to read the first one because it ... was a sequel and so I would understand the other books. The first book explains who Harry Potter is and who is parents are. It also explains who killed his parents but not why he killed them. That information is contained it the oth...

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... dangerous, yet they survive in spite of it. They in fact, thrive because of it. The Symbol of the phoenix is also prevalent in the novel. The phoenix historically symbolizes rebirth and renewal through fire. Each fireman wears a phoenix on his uniform in the book. Bradbury inserted this symbolism equating humanity with the ... phoenix and affirming that, though the firemen burn the books, like the phoenix literature rises up from the ashes. Like the phoenix, Montag rises up from the ashes and actually goes on to become more enlightened from the experience. One ... quote from the book s...

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... the run. Soon after he discovers that war has been declared. The symbol of a Phoenix is used throughout the novel. The Phoenix symbolizes the rebirth after destruction by fire, only to get burnt and destroyed again. Firemen wear the Phoenix on their uniforms, and Captain Beatty symbolically drives a Phoenix car. Montag, after realizing that fire and destruction has destroyed him, wishes to be "reborn ... ". As part of his "rebirth", he goes to Faber with ideas to save the books, and he hides books in his house. But a Phoenix is "reborn" only to get burnt and destroyed, again. Montag's li...

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... , Book Lists of Children's Literature, 101 Out of this World books for Kids Ages 8 - 13, Amazon Books, and Powell's Books. Many of these sights listed the age level and a short synopsis of the book. Looking at the Do's and Don'ts site found on the first web page, I discovered Jim Trelease's Book Lists. It had many of the above sites plus ... to assign the books for independent reading on the weekends and have a book discussion once a week with the whole class or in groups. I plan to have the students write a short synopsis and a critique of each book they read in their journal. I want th...

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... a part of free speech? I do not think that they know what is wrong for everyone. There are some things that people think aren't wrong, by they are censored anyways. Harry Potter is a great example; most families love that little wizard kid and still is banned in some schools. This is supposed to be a democratic government, and it does things that prevent ... have been banned due to censorship. People with imagination are probably missing out on really great books. Schools are banning books that aren't even gory or pertaining to death. Harry potter is being banned in several schools, and...

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Censorship The recent Harry Potter series of books has been of huge benefit to children's reading. Where literally millions of children would be staring at the television or in a trance in front of the Playstation, ... the "X-Files". This is a simplified view of the situation, but the moral background to the issue of censorship has long been subject of intricate debate. In the example of Harry Potter, the banning of Rowling's books in schools and libraries seems excessive and self-defeatist considering the gains to children of reading popular literature. There are of course also arguments fo...

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... Ray Bradbury's point was life could be started over again. As mentioned in Fahrenheit 451, the story of the phoenix comes into mind. This great scarlet firebird burns itself up when it becomes too old or too wretched looking. Then, the phoenix its life all over again. The same way, when the life of the people of the city got too bad ... ...

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... of art, and art can always inspire other forms of art. Many movies have been inspired by books, or are even adaptations of books themselves. Movies such as the Harry Potter series would not have been box office hits, or even exist without the original books being written to inspire a director to adapt these movies into film. While the idea of ... ...

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... of being banned? Many books, simply, "set a bad example for their children,", as is the case with Huckleberry Finn. Others promote "witches and sorcery," such as the case with Harry Potter. Old books as well as new books get placed on the list. Several organizations such as the American Library Association feel that "children should not be exposed to books that ... ...

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... corrupt children. Some people take a different view on this issue and believe that many books, from classic novels like the "Catcher in the Rye" to the recent award-winning "Harry Potter", have objectionable subject matters that should not be used in the classroom. In schools around the nation, there is a hot debate about what literature students should be allowed to read ... ...

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... books , he wants to change the world and preserve knowledge so instead he changes himself .  Montang becomes a completely different person at the end of the novel sort of like the phoenix that is reborn in its ashes. Montang burns his own house down to the ground destroying all his stuff including his memories and by this he also burns his " ... ...

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