Why else would people take writing so seriously?
Some think writing so powerful that their children will turn into sorcerers if they read Harry Potter books.聽聽.
Yet, the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer鈥檚 Stone, ranks fifth in the and has sold 120 million copies.
Others like the are seeking to 鈥渂urn鈥� out of the curriculum .聽 Yet these texts include valued and often taught classics such as Kate Chopin鈥檚 The Awakening and Toni Morrison鈥檚 The Bluest Eye.
And then there鈥檚 the 聽that 鈥渂urns鈥� books on social media, something New York Times Opinion Columnist Jennifer Senior argues against in 鈥溾�澛� She argues:
What happened to Jackson [Kosoko Jackson and his new book A Place for Wolves] is frightening. Purity tests are the tools of fanatics, and the quest for purity ultimately becomes indistinguishable from the quest for power. . . .
Let鈥檚 stop to contemplate this for a moment. When Jackson was left to his own devices to create and dream鈥攔ather than to simply read books for possible cultural violations鈥攈is natural, irrepressible reflex was to write about something that went beyond his own experience. Because that鈥檚 what novelists do: conjure other worlds, imagine their way into other realities, guess at the texture of other people鈥檚 consciousness. It鈥檚 part of the pleasure of inventing stuff for a living.
So how do we deal with this if (more likely when) the burning starts in our neighborhood? We can remember the 起点传媒beliefs of the rights and 鈥攖hat no idea should be forbidden or censored just because of what it says. And, we can remember, too, the 起点传媒value of . We鈥檙e smart and able to heed the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.