Banned or Not? “Just say You gonna do what your mammy wouldn’t. 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 *censored*. When that hurt, I cry. He start to choke me, saying You better shut up and get used to it.” (Walker 1-2) If you as a parent took The Color Purple off the …showed first 75 words of 1297 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1297 total…why not read in it the classroom where all the “controversial” points can be discussed and the deeper meanings can be found. This way the book can be seem more as a learning experience other than a trashy novel as some parents feel. Bibliography Works Cited 1. “Chattanooga, Tennessee” Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom. (Sept. 1989): 162 2. Holt, Patricia “Introduction” Banned. Ed. Alice Walker. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1996. 1-17 3. Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York: Pocket Books, 1982.