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My librarian friend was right about Fahrenheit 451, and I owe her an apology
Last spring I told my librarian friend that Fahrenheit 451 felt dated and that banning books was more of a historical thing. She said, "Give it a decade, people will find new reasons to burn pages." I shrugged it off. Then this fall, my kid's school district in Austin pulled three graphic novels from the middle school library over one parent complaint about a single panel. When I went to the board meeting, I saw the same talking points my friend predicted word for word, about protecting kids and keeping things appropriate. I reread the book last month and it hit way harder than high school. Has anyone else gone back to a banned classic and suddenly gotten why it got challenged in the first place?
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patricia2621mo ago
The whole "it's for the kids" angle is always the cover story, no matter the decade. Same playbook, different book covers, and your friend nailed it down to the talking points.
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