Banned books

One of the books that caught my attention was called, The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The book was challenged many times of the years but in 2009 the book was challenge because parents were concerned about the homosexuality, rap , and incest portrayed within the book. The place where the challenge or the banned took place was at Burke County, Morgantown, North Carolina. They restricted this book from the students within the schools of that county. I would have to agree with this challenge to a certain degree. The reason why I agree is certain ages is inappropriate for this type of reading, I would say at the late teens to early adult would be a great time for them to experience this type of writing within this book. The main reason would be that unfortunately this stuff does truly happen within our society. Now with the result of the banning of this book I would agree, because as a mother I wouldn't want my young child to be able to learn about this type of writing at a young age, but like I said above that in his late teens is a great time for him to experience this. For me to be a adult I would have to agree with that. Most of us parents would think even if we do ban these books what makes us think that they are not going to be able to get a hold of these in their own time? Therefore, yes I can agree but I do know that most kids are going to be trying to get these books just because they are off limits for their age. I know this because I would be one of those kids that would try so I could see what makes this book so bad that we (as young kids) can not read them.