Reading response

    Witchcraft is something people were killed for practicing. Now people want to burn books about it. In the book Americus by M.K. Reed, a young boy named Neil finds out that his favorite fantasy book about witches, Apthea Ravenchilde, is being banned by a group of Christians in his neighborhood. The Christians protest the book, but in the end, it doesn't get banned. The Christians want to ban the book because they believe that the book is sinful and they are threatened by it.

    Destroying public property is a sign of someone being threatened by the thing that they are destroying.. During the beginning of the book, a Christian mother found her son reading the critically acclaimed fantasy book, Apthea Ravenchilde. She was infuriated at the librarian who gave her son the book. She went to the library and ripped the book apart. On pages 32 and 33, the mother exclaims, "How dare you lead my son astray?" She believes that the book can lead her son t horrible things. This quote shows how angry she was. She did not simply tell her son the return the book; she wanted it to be non-existent. Even though her child would not be reading book, she did not want anyone else to read the book either. 

The Christians in the book who wanted Apthea Ravenchilde banned protested it in a very chaotic and radical way. They yelled and made posters of bible excerpts and offensive words. One of the posters said: "Burn All Witches!" Another said: "Evil Witches!" The evidence shows that the group of protesters could not protest in a civil way. They would not let the people who wanted to refute speak. If there is no rebuttal, the book will be banned. The fact that they would not let the refuters speak shows the close-mindedness of the protesters.

This text relates to the world because people try to protest the content of books very often. An example the famous series, Harry Potter. Instead of people just not reading the book or series, they feel the need to restrict everyone else from reading it too. There is no way the stop the protesters from protesting, but we can find a way to convince them to not worry about what everyone else is reading. Hopefully, people will be able to read whatever they would like without worrying about their book being banned.