This post is for a comparison between Harry Potter and The Hunger Games...
As it has been said several times, The Hunger Games was banned for the most part because of how disturbing the violence within it could be at times, and Harry Potter was banned because of its promotion of the Wicca religion. Personally, it seems to me that the reason for banning Suzanne Collins' book is much more applicable than the one for J. K. Rowling's book. Although there certainly is wizardry present within Harry Potter, it is not said anywhere in the book that the Wicca religion is one that others should convert to, but violence is a thing that is seen throughout the entire book Ms. Collins has created. For example, this is how one of the tributes dies in The Hunger Games, "He falls to his knees and halves the brief remainder of his life by yanking out the arrow and drowning in his own blood." (pg. 233). Taking that into consideration, it is as if the banning of The Hunger Games has more of a justification for being banned, even though it is a story that is as equally praiseworthy as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
There are probably many that disagree with me, especially those who are religious and think that talking about events that can occur by using wizardry as an example to portray them is a negative thing. I truly feel, though, that if only one of these books needed to be banned, I would choose The Hunger Games since the difference between the reasons for banning both books indicates that there is more to back-up the banning of Ms. Collins' story. The whole purpose of this project was to determine why the books we read were banned in the first place, and now that I have already found them for both books, I think it would be really effective to put out my opinion on which book is more worthy of being so in the future as well if either one is.
As it has been said several times, The Hunger Games was banned for the most part because of how disturbing the violence within it could be at times, and Harry Potter was banned because of its promotion of the Wicca religion. Personally, it seems to me that the reason for banning Suzanne Collins' book is much more applicable than the one for J. K. Rowling's book. Although there certainly is wizardry present within Harry Potter, it is not said anywhere in the book that the Wicca religion is one that others should convert to, but violence is a thing that is seen throughout the entire book Ms. Collins has created. For example, this is how one of the tributes dies in The Hunger Games, "He falls to his knees and halves the brief remainder of his life by yanking out the arrow and drowning in his own blood." (pg. 233). Taking that into consideration, it is as if the banning of The Hunger Games has more of a justification for being banned, even though it is a story that is as equally praiseworthy as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
There are probably many that disagree with me, especially those who are religious and think that talking about events that can occur by using wizardry as an example to portray them is a negative thing. I truly feel, though, that if only one of these books needed to be banned, I would choose The Hunger Games since the difference between the reasons for banning both books indicates that there is more to back-up the banning of Ms. Collins' story. The whole purpose of this project was to determine why the books we read were banned in the first place, and now that I have already found them for both books, I think it would be really effective to put out my opinion on which book is more worthy of being so in the future as well if either one is.
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