Alice Carrie In The Color Purple

"I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have." Alice Walker is one author that isn't afraid to be blunt with the readers, an author that doesn't sugar coat things that happened or things that can still happen even in today's world. Most people find her novel The Color Purple quiet awkward and disturbing. Alice Walker wasn't always good at writing or anything along those lines, until one of her many brothers had shot her in the eye with a BB gun causing her to go blind in that eye. She was the laughing stock, and considered strange after her eye had healed up with a layer of scar tissue. She then turned to writing and this helped her through her life obstacles. The Color Purple is more than just a color but simply a representation of all the good things in our lives.
In The Color Purple one of Alice Walker's themes she creates in the novel is love. Alice demonstrates the dynamic sensitivity that Celie experiences though male and female relationships. Celie …show more content…
She is thrown into adult situations her entire life. She's growing up not realizing how life should really play out and what love truly is as well. She's never been cared or nurtured for her whole life. She’s always been thrown around not privileged to give her own personally opinions or feelings on the situation she’s been put in. Celie eventually becomes immune to her environment and learns to just cope. She states in one of her letters, “I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.”(#/Walker) She doesn’t believe God has a bigger and better plan in store for her. She believes this is all that she will get and she has to make the best of it. Celie listens to everything Mr___. says to do, almost as if she’s his slave. Celie believes this is what love is, and she can only love her husband Mr__. In reality she can love who ever her heart was reaching out