Banned Books Week at PTC

The event I attended was Banned Books week at Pulaski Technical College. The nature of the event was to read and discuss some of the parts of the banned books that caused controversy and why they got banned. One of the Books presented was the first book of the Harry Potter series “Sorcerer’s Stone,” and the reason it got banned was because it contains wizards, magic and it promotes rule breaking, disobedience and other bad behavior. I didn’t think it was a big deal, I think that when someone is about to read a book, they have to be aware of the type of reading they are about to do. However, when it comes to children, I think it is the job of the adult around the kid, to make sure the kid understand what science fiction is before reading a book such as Harry Potter. I think fiction is a great way to stimulate children’s imagination, and if they start from a young age, by the time they are adults, their imagination will be well develop and we will have tremendous writers. The audiences’ reaction, well, it everyone was pretty quiet, since the lady was speaking on the microphone and no one wanted to interrupt—however I think they all had similar thoughts to mine. Some of the things I learned were that there are a couple things why a book gets banned; they could be moral, political or religious. Also, that we “celebrate” the banned books week to “celebrate” the rights given to us by the Article 1 of the US Constitution.