The Color Purple Research Paper

In life, a person should never be ashamed of where he or she has come from. It's critical for us to remember the past and make the past a lesson. Women should be influenced by Alice Walker’s book The Color Purple and understand that the past experiences can change a person's life by making their stories a testimony. The Color Purple focuses on the positive situations African American women embraced back when slavery was going on. For example, “ Mothers, grandmas, aunts, and teachers want little black girls to know that they can achieve greatness. So they tell them that Harriet Tubman was a courageous and powerful woman who risked her life by leading more than three hundred slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad.” This inspired young African American children to stay positive and keep pushing when times got hard. The Color Purple author indicated that families and educators prepaid black children to meet racist commentary and encouraged them by lecturing them with role models of courage, resilience, and achievement. The …show more content…
It gave me an insight on how positive people use to be regardless of the thing they went through with the African American race. This book talked about how we as a society talk about the negative and the positive regardless. Also made me view the way I think about myself on an entirely different level. It made me understand that I don’t have to be the size society wants me to be. I can be who or whatever size I want to be in the future. The African American race prepared their children back then to face the trials and tribulations. Likewise, that gave me a positive outlook on the traditions done back in that time. Empowerment is the most vital message I got from this book because it made me realize that as an African American community, we need to lift each other up like the women taught the young daughters and sons in