Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou. What do these writers have in common? Not only are they all great American authors, but their great pieces of literature have been banned. One such masterpiece includes my all time favorite, To Kill A Mockingbird. The novel was written by Harper Lee, published in 1960 and was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize the ... why it is done. One reason is bad language. A prime example of this type of censorship occurred in Eden Valley, Minn. (1997), when To Kill A Mockingbird was challenged and temporarily banned due to words "damn", "nigger", and ...

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... Finn by Samuel Clemens is in no way a racist piece of literature. Its author is in no way a racist; he's quite the opposite. Some believe the book needs to be banned from school's required reading lists and libraries. These debates come about due to the description of one of the book's characters Jim, a black run-away slave that befriends Huck through ... . So while Jim may be called a "nigger" by many characters in the book, Clemens writes Jim's responses as calm and nonviolent in the face of ridicule. In an article by John H. Wallace entitled "The Case Against Huck Finn," the debate on...

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