Epistolary novel

The Color Purple was written by prize- winning African American novelist and poet, Alice Walker. Published in 1982, Walker portrayed the love woman could have for each other, and the men who abuse them. As the main character, Celie grows and becomes more of a woman then she thought she could ever be. Alice Walker in The Color Purple uses author, historical perspective, symbolism, quotations and characters and most importantly themes to reflect on what the common African American experiences in…

The Color Purple by Alice Walker, is a book about a protagonist named Celie were she starts at the age of 14 years old and as time passes she progresses in age. Celie came from an abusive home where she has 3 childrens with her father. After Celie’s mom died, her abusive cruel father basically forced her to marry and specific man named Albert. Albert has three kids already before even marrying Celie, and the oldest child is named Harpo. Celie didn’t like living in Harpo’s home at all until…

The color purple isn’t a life that I have personally lived or seen others around me live but it is a life that can be experienced by others around the globe. The connection doesn’t need to start from one being sexually abused by the father but it can be a woman finding out who she really is after the worst has happened to her. A connection to the color purple can be one that comes from the movies. In Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family reunion Lisa Breaux, one of Madea's nieces, is engaged to an…

The Color Purple is a novel by Alice Walker in 1982. The principal character and narrator of the story, Celie is a fourteen year old girl who encounters emotional, psychological and physical torment on account of the men throughout her life. She is impregnated twice by her step father Alphonso and sold to a chauvinistic man named Mister, who regularly beats and sexually assaults her. Henceforth, Alice Walker expands upon a focal topic of the novel i.e. the state of women and their normative…

The relationships women form not only reveals the treatment behind the labels of relationships but also the role of women that society has placed upon them. The novel, The Color Purple, is written through a series of letters, often from the protagonist to God. The protagonist, Celie, is a woman who has been oppressed and hurt by men from a young age. Celie is a kind, caring woman who does everything she can to impress the people in her life disregarding the consequences. One of Celie’s…

this in The Perks of Being A Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky. Charlie is a highschool boy who is coping with his friend Michael Dobson’s suicide. He writes letters to us, the audience, explaining his life from his past and present days. Throughout the novel, direct imagery is shown in different sexual circumstances Charlie experiences, such as visual exposure, psychological trauma and rape. The author uses this as foreshadowing to lead up to Charlie eventually opening up about his sexual assault…

Catcher In The Rye, and that novel is one among many controversial novels that Charlie mentions reading. The protagonists of both novels experience the angst of adolescence and the feelings of being outsiders. Moreover, both novels portray the thoughts and feelings of teenage boys with realistic candor. As a result of this realism, The Perks Of Being a Wallflower has shared a similarity with the earlier novel in having become a target of people who wish to ban the novel because of its honest…

The book I’ve been reading is called The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. For those who haven’t read the book, basically it's about a boy named Charlie who is 15 years old and he’s starting his freshman year of highschool. The book is a bunch of letters written to an anonymous person who never writes back, so it’s kind of like a diary recording everything throughout the year and he goes through a lot. His issues, his friends issues, his family's issues while he’s still trying to…

Throughout history there have been many depictions of the struggles that black women face and how those struggles are overcome. Alice Walker’s novel “The Color Purple” showcases Celie’s journey of self-discovery and the struggles that must be overcome in order to find one’s self. Celie has many different relationships with the minor characters, such as Mr._, who shows Celie that people can change, Sofia & Harpo, who reverse gender roles and show Celie the error in her ways, Nettie & Shug who…

Donna Vorreyer’s poem Wallflowers first caught my attention by its title. Immediately I thought about the common usage of the term, which refers to someone who does not mingle much at social events and instead hugs the wall. They lack a presence. In fact, the poem references how the term is commonly used in the fourth stanza. Lines 11-12 say, “...Or do they wait patiently, shy shadows / at the high school dance…” However, I found the poem to be about another topic entirely. Our usage of…