When governments, or other institutions, want to control what people think and say, they censor what people write and speak. The stories in this collection are about various forms of censorship.
Jenny on the Job is the female counterpart to Joe Dope; she is a model production worker.
Burns follows Wycliffe; both his body and his books are burned.
John Wycliffe translates the Bible into English, but Oxford expels him as his writings become more radical.
Kapu are sacred rules that the Hawaiian's thought of as a religion.
Fear of enemy eavesdropping leads to American-government posters which introduce characters like "Joe Dope." The point is to urge caution in conversa...
Politics are changing when Edgardo Mortara is removed from his family, and the event makes world news.
Even though the Puritans flee England for religious freedom, they do not allow others the same option.
Dostoevsky is sent to prison in St. Petersburg, a beautiful city of palaces and cathedrals.
Martin Luther, a Catholic monk, disagrees with the practices of the Church and his books are burned.
Madiba, as Mandela is affectionately called, forms a close friendship with Pienaar which lasts until Mandela's death.
Apartheid, a system ofracial segregation in South Africa, ensures blacks cannot vote or travel freely in their own country.
Mandela believes thatarmed resistance-including violence- is the only way to endthe problems caused by apartheid.
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