The Color Purple Literary Analysis

“When you read well, you hear how the parts work together. Once you can do that, you can create writing from parts to a whole you couldn’t imagine before.” The book The Color Purple, has a serious and honest tone throughout the book. The major characters of the story are Celie (narrator/ main character), Shug, Albert, Nettie, Sofia, and Harpo, and which the author finds a way to set the tone of the story. The writer sets up different views of each character and a little bit of background of their life helps you get an understanding of why the author is writing literary language the way she does. This novel isn’t set into chapters it is set up with letters, and as the letters go on they become more and more sophisticated in vocabulary, sentence …show more content…
Many of the letters have misspelled errors and have a southern way of language. “I ast our new mammy about Shug Avery”. This quote from the story shows that black people did not have enough education like how the white folks did back then. Nowadays we don’t say “I ast or mammy”, because black people have enough of education to know how to speak properly and use better structure of vocabulary. “You can do eveerything just like you want to ans she ain’t gonna make you feed it or clothe it.” This quote is from the main character Celie, and by using this quote is a prime example of how black uneducated people use to talk. Also in the story there are white people that have a few lines of where they talk “ You ain’t been home or seen your children in a while” the white folks still also pronounce the same things that black people said, but their grammar is way more improved than colored people. During this time blacks and whites had a different level of education that they were able to get because of their skin color. The only way for blacks to improve their level of education was for them to teach themselves how to read and …show more content…
At the beginning of the story Celie’s letters are very uneducated, and she has a lot of misspelled errors throughout her letters. “Let ‘im hear me” is a quote from one of Celie’s letters but in Nettie’s letters she has better vocabulary than Celie and she really does not have countless misspelled errors “Well, I started to fight him, and with Gods’ help, I hurt him bad enough to make him let me alone”. As the book continues to go on Celie letters become more better just like her sister, Nettie’s letters. “In a few weeks, we will all be home.” (Nettie letter) “I know you on your way home and you may not git here till I’m ninety, but one of these days I do expect to see your face.”(Celie letter). They both still have that southern way of talking, but they both are educated now. Since their level of education has improved their letters are becoming more sophisticated than what they were