There are many books around that are banned, they are banned because of the material that is inside of them. Books get banned from being read in a classroom setting for having questionable material in them, that brings up topics that parents do not want their children to be involved, aware, or exposed to. When novels, like Catcher in the Rye for example, contain material like a young 16 year old boy drinking, smoking, getting kicked out of school and having prostitutes in his hotel room, it stirs up a lot of discussion. Parents question whether it is right or necessary to be reading books with this type of material in them.
Other pieces of literature are banned if they are insulting or racist towards an individual or groups of individuals. If there is crude material, swearing, killing, harsh ideas, bad characterization and sometimes homosexuality books may also become banned. People are free to buy these pieces of literature, 90% of the time, but they are not allowed to be read in a classroom. Novels like Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men and How to kill a Mockingbird, were all banned for similar reasons. All there novels have much questionable material in them; racism, foul or crude language or ideas, this offends a large group of people. All three of these books have been banned and unbanned for years off and on, they are all great written piece of literature but because offensive material they aren't studied. It's a shame really, some people want to shield their children from the real world and things that take place every day somewhere in the world. These books are all based in earlier years, with events that were so common and normal for their time and everyone should understand that.
Books weren't written to offend people, they were simply ones ideas and thoughts. They are for the enjoyment of others and because of material in some of them and they way some people interpret that information or idea books become banned.
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