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King, Amy. "On Alice Walker's The Color Purple." www.pen.org, October 4, 2012. Web. March 27, 2013.

This article deeply explains her King's personal thoughts on the novel and why it was banned. She definitely does not hold back on voicing her opinion. She uses school systems around the country to support her belief that wherever you go, you will find a school that has had contraversy over the novel, __The Color Purple__. King also goes into explanation as to why she thinks the book is banned and uses specific dialogue from the book. In King's opinion, it may be the rapes, racial discrimination, "unapologetic homosexuality", and graphic sexual content. However, she also makes the point that in today's society we see some of this content on television and in our lives on a daily basis. King says, "We live in modern day America where video games and graphic "Law & Order" episodes depict, or at least describe on the daily, some of the most brutal violences we've ever heard of, but this book remains a focal point of contention." I think that statement hits our country's hipocracy right on the head.

K., Aiden. "The Color Purple By Alice Walker." www.teennick.com, web. March 27, 2013.

Personally, I love this article! Mainly because it's written by another student who has a very strong opinion on this subject and they also back up their argument. This student wrote this article for a school project on why their school shouldn't ban this book. K. says, "I mainly rebutted the provided arguments against the books content by providing examples of widely accepted novels that are actually morally "worse" than The Color Purple." And that's exactly what he does. Some examples he uses are the "n-word" and how many more times it's used in Mississippi Trail as opposed to The Color Purple and how Brave New World has much more sexual content in it than The Color Purple as well.