![]() ![]() It has been included on a list of 50 books that Texas parents want banned because the book includes “explicit descriptions of masturbation and genitalia”. We Are the Ants has been widely challenged because of the themes listed above. We Are the Ants has themes of bullying, homosexuality, and abuse. Henry struggles with bullying, depression, an d his family struggles. Due to the struggles that he is facing, Henry doesn’t know if earth is worth saving. Let the planet be destroyed or press a button and save it. The aliens show Henry pictures of earth’s destruction, and they give him a choice. ![]() Mom is waitress who works all of the time, his grandmother is senile, his brot her is a community college dropout who got his girlfriend pregnant, and his brother committed suicide a year prior. Henry has anything but the perfect home life, his relationship with his dad is fractured, his This conte mporary novel follows Henry who is a high school junior, who has been experiencing alien abductions, which has wrapped his sense of realit y. ![]() This week I will be talking about We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson. ![]()
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