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Questioning Society
restraints: confines; controls imposed: forced
my Notes
or restricted—if librarians, teachers, and booksellers across the country did not use Banned Books Week each year to teach the importance of our First Amendment rights and the power of literature, and to draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed on the availability of information in a free society.
Second Read
• Reread the passage to answer the text-dependent comprehension question.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. Craft and Structure: What clues in the text help you understand the meaning of the word banned?
Working from the Text
2. Quickwrite: Explain why books are an important part of our society. Which values do they symbolize? You may use the informational text to guide your response.
Novel Study
Setting is not simply the time and place in a story. It is also the social circumstances that create the world in which characters act and make choices. Readers who are sensitive to this world are better able to understand and judge the behavior of the characters and the significance of the action. The social circumstances of a story will often provide insights into the theme of a literary piece.
3. Using “Harrison Bergeron,” show how the setting connects to the character and theme.
4. How are books viewed in the society of your novel’s protagonist?
5. Compare and contrast perspectives relating to banned books. How might this connect to the story’s theme?
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