Katy+Duty

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Rational: The rating I would put on this book is R. There is abuse, racial slurs, sexual content. This book is banned due to offensive language, being sexually explicit and homosexuality. At the top of the poster I chose to put a picture of a microphone. Celie's friend Shug Avery is a singer, and Shug helps Celie get on her feet and become a strong woman. The picture of the rocking chair on the porch represents her life when she was young and when she was married. Both her father and husband would sit on the porch and read the paper or look out into space ignoring Celie and expecting her to take care of everything. I have a picture of an old town which represents Memphis where Celie started her new life. I also have purple flowers because there is a scene in the book where Celie and Shug are in a field of purple flowers. And we understand the beauty that God has placed around us. I chose this quote because I thought it was very powerful and inspirational. Celie didn't think she had anny power until she put her foot down and became her own woman.

"Alice Walker biography." . A&E Networks, n.d. Web. 27 Mar 2013. .

Alice Walker took part in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Alice Walker has also won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for fiction for //The Color Purple.// Alice Walker has also been successful with her poems, short stories and other novels. Walker was able to connect with the main character Celie. Walker grew up in a large family, and after an injury she believed she was ugly and disfigured. Walker also attended segregated schools. Walker understands how it feels to be judged her skin color like Celie and her family was judged.

"Banned Books Awareness: “The Color Purple ” by Alice Walker." //Banned Books Awareness//. Wolf Baldassarro/Deep Forest Productions, 20 Mar 2011. Web. 27 Mar 2013. .

This book has been challenged multiple times. One high school believed that their students weren’t intellectually mature enough to handle the sexual content in the book. With 9 months of argument, the book was approved to be read. A school library in Virginia also wanted to remove the book because of the sexual content. Some schools have an age limit for the book and other schools have banned to book permanently because it is “X-rated”. It is important for students to read about these subjects and to be able to analyze it logically.

Doyle, Robert. "Banned and/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the  20th Century." //Banned Books//. American Library Association, 20 Mar 2011. Web. 27 Mar 2013. .

This book has been challenged to be banned since 1984, just one year after it was published. Most schools, school programs for counties have banned this book due to vulgar activity, abuse and the way black men are portrayed. Adults think that by banning this book, students won’t be exposed to subjects like homosexuality or abuse. This site also has reasons why other books are banned. Some of the reasons are ridiculous.

Lola, Ingrid. "Review: The Color Purple by Alice Walker." // The Blue Bookcase //. N.p., 27 February 2012. Web. 27 Mar 2013. .

This website is a review of //The Color Purple.// The author describes this book as tremendous and strong. The book exposes its audience to just enough prejudice and pain to make you fall in love with the main character and the story line. The reviewer does not believe that the book should be banned. This is a story about strong, mature black women who learn to get their feet under them. This is a life changing book.

"Growing Up Black in the 1930s." //Society and War//. N.p., 14 Mar 2012. Web. 28 Mar 2013. .

This website explains the life of African Americans in the 1930s, which is the time period this book is based on. African Americans were mainly poor and lived in small two room houses. Celie’s family was also poor working in the fields and they lived in a small house. Most African American children had to sacrifice education to find and job. Celie’s father took her and her sister out of school to work at the house.