Compare and contrast: The Bluest Eye & The Color Purple In this essay i’m gonna compare and contrast the book The Bluest eye and Eye and the movie The Color Purple. There are many differences and similarities between the book and the movie. Which I will talk about as many similarities and differences i can find. I will also provide evidence if there's any.
In the book, The Bluest Eye, there’s a girl named Pecola and everyone calls her ugly also she was only eleven years old when she got raped by her father. In the book The Bluest Eye it says “ he wanted to f*ck her tenderly. But the tenderness would not hold. The tightness of her vagina was more than he could bear. His soul seemed to slip down to his guts and fly out into her, and the gigantic thrust he made into her then provoked the only sound she made a hollow suck of air in the back of her throat.” (Morrison, pages 162 to 163) In the quote Pecola was getting raped by her father Cholly who was drunk like always. Later on in the book we found out that Pecola got …show more content…
In the movie the Color Purple there’s a girl named Celie who her father called her ugly and she was only fourteen when she was also raped but by her father. The evidence that tells us that Celie got raped by her father is that she got pregnant by her him and sent her kids to Africa. Then her father sold her into marriage even though Albert didn’t want her he wanted her sister Nattie. He didn’t want Celie has a wife he wanted her as a servant and he also was in love with a women named Shug Avery and they wrote each other love letters. In the movie they showed us a scene of her getting raped by Albert and a picture of Shug Avery on the nightstand which could mean that he was think of her as he raped
In the book, The Bluest Eye, there’s a girl named Pecola and everyone calls her ugly also she was only eleven years old when she got raped by her father. In the book The Bluest Eye it says “ he wanted to f*ck her tenderly. But the tenderness would not hold. The tightness of her vagina was more than he could bear. His soul seemed to slip down to his guts and fly out into her, and the gigantic thrust he made into her then provoked the only sound she made a hollow suck of air in the back of her throat.” (Morrison, pages 162 to 163) In the quote Pecola was getting raped by her father Cholly who was drunk like always. Later on in the book we found out that Pecola got …show more content…
In the movie the Color Purple there’s a girl named Celie who her father called her ugly and she was only fourteen when she was also raped but by her father. The evidence that tells us that Celie got raped by her father is that she got pregnant by her him and sent her kids to Africa. Then her father sold her into marriage even though Albert didn’t want her he wanted her sister Nattie. He didn’t want Celie has a wife he wanted her as a servant and he also was in love with a women named Shug Avery and they wrote each other love letters. In the movie they showed us a scene of her getting raped by Albert and a picture of Shug Avery on the nightstand which could mean that he was think of her as he raped