Book Title: Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix
Pages read this week: 67
Pages read last week(s):778
Total pages:845
weekly summary: Umbridge bans students from reading the newspaper and asking question about Voldemort.
weekly thought: What intrigued me the most is Umbridge is enforcing censorship on the students. According to Wikipedia, "Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor. " Censorship is use throughout history. For example, during World War 1, countries like Britain, the U.S, Germany etc would censor many things like newspaper because they thought they would harmed the country. In Germany they would ban books; Basically everything that would go against their government. Censorship would soon leak into literature. For instance, Ayn Rand's Anthem and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 demonstrate how censorship badly affects a society. In my opinion, censorship does not protect a society, it destroys it. It stop people from asking questions and stop teaching people new ideas. This is why censorship is terrible and should never be enforce.
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