The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 1884. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger, 1951. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936. The Great Gatsby, F . Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 (www.bannedbooksweek.org). All the books mentioned in the last sentences were books that “shaped America” and were in one way or another banned or expurgated by eliminating all explicit words and content from them. In doing so, the people who decided to ban the books, or otherwise eliminate their content, greatly diminished the points of view that the author was trying to conceive. I believe that unless reading is aimed at children younger than, say, 13, then books like the ones mentioned above should not be banned or censored at all. Sometimes a rare case occurs, like mine, where children skip a few grades and are really ahead of their class, and still a little immature, but if they are in a certain grade, they should be allowed to read and understand what the author was originally trying to portray before the "people who think they know better" went around censoring the author's initial intent. Some of the best literature, it also happens to be some of the most controversial pieces. The books mentioned above, some were banned due to language, others due to racism and sexuality, but they were all important pieces about life lessons that people should read about. I believe that books like these actually improve our learning abilities and do not discourage them. I believe it should not be up to the government, or the FCC, to control what citizens do or do not read in school systems. They've taken away enough by taking the Bible out of schools, it's a right that our founding fathers gave us when this country was founded, t...many, many more that have been banned or changed, they should be brought back, provided that parents of children reading these articles agree to allow this, so that they can get the full effect of how the reader was trying to portray his, or the actor's, emotions in the book. There should also be an age in school when you start to allow kids to read these things, because obviously it's not going to be appropriate for a fourth grader to start reading someone who says a swear word every two words, or one who focuses on negative aspects. things like racism, because such information could be harmful to kids' overall learning abilities. Finally, some of the literature that was banned years ago is being reinstated in schools, thanks to people like me who have the same opinion as me and who will stand up and fight for our rights.