Here is a link to the survey. It’s on Google Forms. The Google Form is about asking questions on banned books that students think should be bought back.
Here are the results I’ve gotten so far:
Choose one of the books you think should be brought back and tell us why you think it should be allowed:
- Fahrenheit 451: it’s a great example of why books shouldn’t be banned. Society becomes this collapsed totalitarian system that burns books at the sight of them! It’s a great read that has a really powerful message!
- I just don’t believe that any book should be banned in any situation. Librarians can use their own discretion to choose age appropriate content and parents can regulate what their OWN children read. I don’t have any strong feelings toward the books above that I’ve read. I just don’t think a book should ever be banned.
- Every one of the books serves its own literary purpose; however, the “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker is an engaging text that sublimely showcases struggles most modern Americans have never had to face. It’s an artifact of America’s dark history, and lest we repeat such history, we need to read this and many other perspectives, regardless of how “guilty” it might make us feel.
If you could meet the author(s) of the book you chose, what is ONE question you would ask them? (You can ask one question per author):
- Ray Bradbury: how do you pump out such amazing works?
- I don’t really have strong feelings about any of those books. I guess I would ask Margaret Atwood if she thinks the world today is closer to her dystopia than the world she wrote it in.
- What inspired your story?
