"Ammu, naked now, crouched over Velutha, her mouth on his. He drew her hair around them like a tent. Like her children did when they wanted to exclude the outside world. She slid furtherdown, introducing herself to the rest of him." http://www.scribd.com/doc/76998294/21/Chapter-21-The-Cost-of-Living#page=149
In these controversial passages, the controversy is mostly caused by the relationship between Ammu and Velutha. Ammu, the mother of main characters Estha and Rahel, is having an affair with this man who's name is Velutha. Velutha is the father figure of Estha and Rahel, even though he is accused of kidnapping them. This is still an unfit passage for anyone under the ages of 18 to read.
This book has been challeged because of its sexual passages. Almost all of Chapter 21, "The Cost of Living", is about sex. The whole chapter is basically describing Ammu and Velutha's affair. It describes what is happening in the affair. This is why it is challenged. The whole point of Roy describing the affair in the way she does is because she uses it to emphasise the change in their way of seeing things. She shows that in Chapter 21 when she says "Even later, on the thirteen nights that followed this one, instinctively they stuck to the Small Things. ..They laughed at ant-bites on each other’s bottoms. At clumsy caterpillars sliding off the ends of leaves, at overturned beetles that couldn’t right themselves. At the pair of small fish that always sought Velutha out in the river and bit him." But the sexual passages is why it's challenged.
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