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Redleg: There is some inappropriate content in 1984 (or at least content that would prevent the average Bais Yaakov/yeshiva from assigning it).

I read 3 Shakespeare plays, To Kill a Mockingbird, Our Town, Death of a Salesman, The Great Gatsby, Turning of the Screw, Great Expectations, and a bunch of other stuff I’m probably forgetting. Oh, yeah, also The Crucible, but someone complained about inappropriate content so the teacher taught it to us without us actually needing to read it. It was weird. The teacher was annoyed. (I honestly don’t know what the problem was with the play and I thought it was really good, actually.)

Setting The Crucible aside, none of this was censored. Except one book which I won’t name, which was basically a bunch of pages which were each about 50% whited out. It was quite humorous. They never tried that again.