Why Should The Color Purple Be Banned Essay
What’s Black, White, and The Color Purple?
“First he put his thing up against my hip and sort of wiggle it around. Then he grab hold my titties. Then he push his thing inside my pussy. When that hurt, I cry. He start to choke me, saying You better shut up and get used to it.”(Walker 1). If you as a parent took The Color Purple off the shelves and just opened the book you would begin by reading the quote above. As a parent who just opens the book and reads the first two pages, already, based on a snap judgment do not want their child to read this Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alice Walker. However, The Color Purple should not be banned. The novel writes of many current issues needed to be addressed in this day and age. Many issues concerning The Color Purple consist of abuse, rape, explicit sexual content, human sexuality, profanity, racism, etc.; the list goes on. Abuse was a big part of this novel, as it was seen throughout the entire novel starting from the very first page of the novel. It was mostly seen through both sexual and emotional abuse, seen mostly towards the main character of the book, Celie. In Texas during 1996 The Color Purple was “retained on the Round Rock Independent High School reading list after a challenge that the book was too violent” (Doyle). This can be seen …show more content…
As a black woman, white people like the mayor and his wife assume that it’s a great honor to be a white lady’s housemaid. Because Sofia is unwilling to place herself in a degrading position, the white mayor and police beat her in order to reassert their racial dominance. There is also an instance where Sofia describes her position at the mayor’s house and her son refuses to let herself see herself as a slave; he’s got too much pride for that. As well as another when Nettie describes how overjoyed she was to realize that the Bible is full of
“First he put his thing up against my hip and sort of wiggle it around. Then he grab hold my titties. Then he push his thing inside my pussy. When that hurt, I cry. He start to choke me, saying You better shut up and get used to it.”(Walker 1). If you as a parent took The Color Purple off the shelves and just opened the book you would begin by reading the quote above. As a parent who just opens the book and reads the first two pages, already, based on a snap judgment do not want their child to read this Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alice Walker. However, The Color Purple should not be banned. The novel writes of many current issues needed to be addressed in this day and age. Many issues concerning The Color Purple consist of abuse, rape, explicit sexual content, human sexuality, profanity, racism, etc.; the list goes on. Abuse was a big part of this novel, as it was seen throughout the entire novel starting from the very first page of the novel. It was mostly seen through both sexual and emotional abuse, seen mostly towards the main character of the book, Celie. In Texas during 1996 The Color Purple was “retained on the Round Rock Independent High School reading list after a challenge that the book was too violent” (Doyle). This can be seen …show more content…
As a black woman, white people like the mayor and his wife assume that it’s a great honor to be a white lady’s housemaid. Because Sofia is unwilling to place herself in a degrading position, the white mayor and police beat her in order to reassert their racial dominance. There is also an instance where Sofia describes her position at the mayor’s house and her son refuses to let herself see herself as a slave; he’s got too much pride for that. As well as another when Nettie describes how overjoyed she was to realize that the Bible is full of