Alice Walker's Color Purple

Messages from Color Purple
An observance of Alice Walker’s “Color Purple” Racism has been a long-lasting strife in American history. Beginning with the colonists, slavery was introduced to our country. As the United States gained independence, ironically enough slavery came along with it. As early American thought advanced, as the culture and industry advanced, so did technology; the invention of the cotton gin procured a high demand for African American slaves in the south. By this point, the mid—1800’s—slavery and the mistreatment of blacks had not at all gotten better when compared with colonial times, in fact, it had gotten worse. Story after story is released to history students of the horrifying treatment of blacks by whites, starting in the 1700’s and going until the 1980’s, majorly. These stories appall us, we ask how another human, specifically a majority of humans, could …show more content…
However, what many do not realize is the harshness not only the black men but also black women had to endure. They were severely mistreated in a number of ways, as it proceeded very shockingly after the Civil War, by their fellow black men. A certain novel portrays this idea very clearly. As a strong, independent, and outspoken woman, Alice Walker conjured the famous book, “Color Purple.” Furthermore, Alice Walker demonstrates three major messages through this story which are first, the idea that many are shaped by their circumstances, as humans, we often need other’s help to recover, and last, the oppressed can often have a great effect on the oppressor in terms of standing up for him/herself. Initially, “Color Purple,” demonstrates how most people’s lives, actions, and character traits are formed by the treatment which