Flowers In The Attic Banned Book

The story is also very dark in places and i must admit to feeling quite squeamish when i read the part where after days without food the ever resourceful chris.

Flowers in the attic banned book. Andrews s most popular book is flowers in the attic dollanganger 1. Flowers in the attic i ve read a number of other v c. Andrews it is the first book in the dollanganger series and was followed by petals on the wind if there be thorns seeds of yesterday garden of shadows christopher s diary. Since it consists of rape and child abuse.

Echoes of dollanganger and christopher s diary. For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me. There once were rumors that the book is part non fiction base on a situation of a relative to v c andrews where a boy and his siblings were locked in an attic in order to ensure an inheritance. Flowers in the attic not surprisingly hit the banned books list many times due to topics of incest.

I think it s fine for a high school to. In only certain areas that school has banned the novel. At age 13 i survived almost entirely on green apple jolly ranchers and flowers in the attic and to this day i can t look at the book without my mouth watering my much loved copy must have come from a supermarket it was impossible to go to a supermarket in the 80s to say secretly stock up on green apple jolly ranchers without a v c. It caused quite a stir as it revolved around child abuse incest and the demonizing of religion.

Flowers in the attic touches on a few taboo subjects such as child abuse and incest and because of its controversial nature it has at times been banned in certain parts of the world. Andrews book lurking by checkout. Andrews was at the hospital for surgery on her spine and her doctor had told her how he was trapped in an attic for over six years with his siblings. Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in.

Flowers in the attic movie spoilers. Andrews created a fictional. Flowers in the attic is a 1979 gothic novel by v. Flowers in the attic was originally a 1979 book by v c.

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