The Naked Lunch
Writing books is a great source for speaking up against government policies through the means of words; The Naked Lunch written by William S. Burroughs in the year 1991 does the same thing as it goes vocal against the death penalty. The novel’s main character William Lee happens to be a drug fiend adopting numerous aliases as he travels between Mexico and USA.
Burroughs brings the character of William Lee through his own personal experience pertaining to abuse & addiction of drugs the like of Morphine, Marijuana and Heroin. Not only notorious for talking about drugs in great detail, The Naked Lunch has faced criticism for including obscene elements of pedophilia and murdering children; the language of the text itself is considered to be indecent & abominable.
And Tango Makes Three
The work of authors Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell, And Tango Makes Three came out six years ago in 2005. Based on the true story of two male penguins from Central Park Zoo (New York), pairing up as a couple, hatching an egg given to them from another heterosexual pair, and successfully raising the offspring to come out of the shell, the book has raised hullabaloo by being accused of homosexuality in a subliminal manner.
However, the authors have contested statements similar to those and stated that they captured facts as they came & happened. Conservative groups & parent unions in multiple have demanded for the book to either be removed from school libraries or be put in restricted areas for which the child must obtain prior written approval from his/her parents to be allowed to read the book.
Elders of Zion
Alleged to be a work based on forgery and fraud to defame people of Jewish ancestry, The Elders of Zion is considered to have possibly been inked by Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky; even though that cannot be said for sure. Published in Russia during the early years of the 20th century (1903), the novel was greatly utilized by Adolf Hitler as a propaganda tool to unleash the Holocaust.
The plot maintains that prominent Jewish Leaders of the 19th century got together at a meeting in order to discuss their plans for complete dominance over the world’s populace and resources. Despite claims to have been written completely on the basis of facts, the Jewish community and fellow supporters disagree with the former.
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