A movement has been implemented to remove the past and said movement has begun with the largest amount of written history books. In recent times, these groups have demanded books such as “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Of Mice and Men” that display the cruelty of the past in writing be removed.
At this time, the banning of books is being limited by associations like PEN America whose driving goal is to promote writers' abilities to promote their own opinions and mediate the banning of books in America. Such groups still don’t have the ability to protect all books against movements that push for the removal of books that hold important fragments of history as Hartselle High School librarian Tamisha Key says “It is a movement to censor the bad parts of history to make it as if they never happened”, From this, one can see it is getting harder to learn the lessons of the past and to improve from it if all is removed.
HHS fights the movement to erase aspects of an undesirable past because Key finds that “I believe that books are history and the hard to read ones make you better.” HHS makes the banning of books very difficult to accomplish adding a lengthy form to even begin. Then there is a committee made to assess the issue, and finally, the state board makes the final decision.
In the end, removing history for the benefit of some is dangerous. In this day and age the world moves forever forward but must be cautious on how its history is preserved.
Written by William Miller
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