Banned Books Controversy

Thesis Statement

The main purpose of this paper is to make discussion that why the book “The Color Purple” should not be a banned book.

Introduction

The book “The Color Purple” has been banned on the reason that it was spreading violence and was full of sexual content and racism. There are some people who think that this book is a beautifully written book and is full of meaningful story. This paper depicts on the reasons that why this book should not be banned.

Discussion

"The Color Purple" is a human drama in which the author describes the hardships experienced by both Celie and by the people around her. There is no character in the plot that does not suffer. The outburst of innocence, the dominant power of man over woman, and redemption are given together in this intense drama (Butler, 65).

Starting with the protagonist, Celie, that girl is raped by her father became pregnant twice, the first of a boy and a girl second. When his father gets tired it will not make the slightest case and features a widowed farmer, Albert, aimed his other daughter, Nettie, more graceful than Celie.

The film starts with a plane on a pink flower that is emerging to show some black girls who play happy and carefree in a sunny field and flowery (Calvin, 1). It is the image of total happiness. But this idyllic situation was soon truncated by the arrival of the father, who introduced a violence that constitutes the backbone of the whole story. Such an approach, coupled with the fact that the film is starring black people in America, can lead to the idea, easy, that we see a history of liberation of the oppressed against the oppressor (Cunard, 45). Even seeing the violence emanating from the family, we could hazard a merciless criticism against this institution. But the detail that, except in rare and marginal cases, the oppressors of blacks than those of their own race, casts a suspicion of naivety about the reading. The vision of the family can be, first, ambiguous. On the one hand, father and husband to the star represent the source of all their sufferings. In addition the ratio of the sisters is the only outlet for the situation. It would be faced with an ambivalence that could respond to the complexity of the problem. But Spielberg does not seem to be comfortable with such an approach, and soon put things in place. The duality will choose quickly to one of its poles: the problem is not the family institution, but a misconception of it (Dix, 191). The family is not bad, so bad are the bad families. Thus, Celie's children, as he tells his sister, are happy, then grew into a family surrounded by love, and it is she who, hazards of life, took care of them. Moreover Sofia fined happiness in reuniting with their children at Christmas, all together around the table under the protective shade and quiet of Celie.

All these points are clearly stated ...