Banning books bans past lessons

History repeats itself. 

This is something we are told as children so that way we learn from our past mistakes. 

It is something that is important. We learn history so that way we do not do it again. Like when a child touches something hot and learns to not touch hot things, or when they go outside when it is cold or wet and they learn next time to dress better. 

This lesson is so important and yet there are people who want to stop this. 

The Holocaust is such a big event. They write movies, books, even make documentary films about it. That is how important it is to remember this lesson. The lesson that it was wrong. 

Yet now there are people taking that lesson away from us. 

In Tennessee they just banned the book titled “Maus”. Pronounced mouse. 

This is a book about the Holocaust, it shows the Jews as mice and the Nazis as cats. 

It was banned because of nudity and language. If nudity and a few cuss words are going to stop us from learning about our history and how not to repeat it then we are doomed to repeat it. 

“Maus” is not the only things schools are starting to ban. They are also banning “The Catcher and the Rye”. 

I do not know how many of you have read this, but I had to read it for school. It helped me prepare for adulthood. 

It showed me how there are bad people in this world and that there are good people who do bad things. It helped me to understand that moms try their hardest and to give mine a break sometimes. It helped me understand not being OK is OK. 

These are some things I think most high schoolers need to know. Another one that is being banned is “1984” by George Orwell.

This book was written to help us understand how bad it would be if the world was in total totalitarianism. It shows how he is frustrated from the ever-following eyes of big brother. 

The want to ban this book but, the messages in this book are great. He is the one that shows us that secrets cannot be kept. 

He helps us to understand that the past is the future. Unless we change the present to impact our future. 

This message is in the books we read. So why are we not following it.

I understand language and nudity, but I was able to find the “Twilight” books on my library bookshelf and that had sparkling vampires. They did not ban that, yet they are banning books on our history.