Banned Book Week

Banned Book Week is a annual awareness campaign that celebrates the freedom to read, draws attention to banned and challenged books, also it highlights perspective individuals. Banned Book Week is hosted by the American Library Association. The people hope to achieve people engaging in the books that can be challenged or are challenged. "Looking For Alaska" by John Green is a story about a teenagers life that is thrown in as casually and skillfully. This book was challenged in 2006 for being explicit and talking about sexual content going on in the story. Another book that was challenged was the book "Fifty shades Of Grey". This book is about a romantic novel by E.L James. It is written in first persons view and about a college student. What I like about these two novels is that they are both best seller books even though they were banned from most school because of related arguments that parents did not like. They are both about struggles in life that people have to face and how they accomplish them.

In Frank Bruni's article when he says "Learning should be Dangerous"  what Bruni is trying to explain is if teenagers just stay true to your self and work through the obstacles you will achieve many things in life. Bruni is not wanting you to just do the minimal and just do what is told. Bruni is saying that over achievers are always the one who end up being successful. "Learning is full of life lessons". Bruni likes this term that is explained in this article The Truth when it is going from not achieving and just doing what's told to going past the horizon and look at things in a more outgoing positive way. College plays with weaknesses and teenagers need to catch them before it has a effect on your life or when you cant go back. Opportunities pass and go, its your turn to figure out what could be impacted on and achieve goals as a individual. Be successful in life, that is your goal.