Banned books are books that are not allowed free access. The practice of book banning is a method of book censorship and is often politically, religiously, or morally motivated. The second book in the Hunger Games trilogy is catching fire. The book is banned and I believe it should not be banned. The reasons are that it involves excessive violence, causes nightmares in children and some believe it is anti-ethnic. I think Catching Fire shouldn't be banned because the book teaches you to never give up. But high school students should be able to read the book because it has a great influence on young readers and gives readers the feeling that giving up is not an option and pushes them to keep moving forward. There are many reasons why violence is one of the reasons the book was banned. “You've decided to leave me out of District 12 until you can arrest me? Drag me to the square to be locked in a stockade or whipped or hanged? (Collins 151). This isn't really strong, bloody violence that would make a student sick in class, it's basic violence that you would see in any other book that involves killing and fighting. And by exposing this type of violence to children it will increase their level of maturity and children will understand that there is violence around them in the world and that they will have to learn to deal with it. 56% of the book is contested by parents and only 13% by libraries. This tells the reader that parents have a harder time with the book, so you wonder: Is it more the parents' fault for why they see the book? Or is it the way their children see the book? both the child and the parents will see the book differently, so the children might like the violence in the book but the parents might say that... in the middle of the paper... anti-war tones” (postcard no. 3 page 1 source #3) this shows that parents discuss and complain about the book more than students do as they repeat why they think the book should be banned. Once again I think the book should not be banned because it has good reasons as to why it should be banned, but the parents and other challengers have not provided strong enough evidence in my opinion. The evidence I have provided could easily overturn the decision to ban the book because yes, there is violence in the book, but it is the way parents see violence and children may see it in a different way. This book teaches the reader a lesson to never give up and show courage like Katniss in the book. The violence exposed in this book should mature your children and parents to know that there is more violence in the real world than in this fictional violence..