Purple Crayon

if he were her therapist, Celie guides readers through a journey filled with pain, love, and an unbreakable bond with her sister Nettie. Alice Walker incorporates all three key components of a great writer in a beautifully written novel, The Color Purple. All of the three components stem from Vladimir Nabokov: storyteller, teacher and enchanter. Nabokov would greatly appreciate reading this novel because it includes all of the ideas necessary to be a great writer while keeping true to the story.…

The Color Purple is a fictional epistolary novel written by Alice Walker. Set in the early 20th century, the narrator of the novel is Celie, a poor fourteen-year-old black girl living in rural Georgia within a male-dominated and racially prejudiced society. At a young age, Celie’s life becomes very difficult, since she is uneducated and lives with an abusive father. At 14 years old, she is raped by her own father and then sold into marriage with an older man. Celie’s new husband, Mr.____, or…

The book I chose to share is The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-sue Hitchcock. It shows the perspectives of four teens living in Fairbanks, Alaska right before and after the switch of Alaska being apart of the U.S. in the 1970s. Ruth is a lonely teenager that lives with her younger and louder sister, Lily, and her mean grandmother. Her mom is mentally sick because Ruth’s dad died while in a plane crash. She becomes pregnant with her boyfriend’s baby. Ray, Ruth’s unfaithful boyfriend…

Purple Hibiscus, a book written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie express throughout the whole book that the fear of someone or an object can cause you to act a certain way, or stay silence which is just hurting you more. Main character Kambili and her family;Jaja and Mama, face a whole world full of fear from their Papa. Papa think his abuse is for the good of his family . They all think that keeping silence or doing what they are told is the best choice to do because they are scared from…

The Color Purple is an epistolary novel about the protagonist’s, Celie, everyday struggles; however, she determines how her struggles affect her and how she chooses to overcome them. Celie addresses her letters to God; She views God an outlet for her to express how she feels. Alice Walker cleverly employs symbolism, conflict, and allegory to convey the theme of independence. Early in the novel, Walker introduces the protagonist, Celie, by beginning the novel with “You better not never tell…

Many black women have long been stereotyped as angry, weak mothers who have too many children that aren’t properly taken care of. In a well-known article published in 1974, Alice Walker explores this perceptive struggle of the African American female. Within the piece, she argues: Black women are called, in the folklore that so aptly identifies one's status in society, "the mule of the world," because we have been handed the burdens that everyone else - everyone else - refused to carry. We have…

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson are novels that are both considered to be bildungsromans. They both have a strong sense of the character’s growth and journey to find their true selves, even when in a hostile environment. Both novels have an element of betrayal that force the protagonists Celie and Jeanette to face who they truly are, and fight back against a suppressive figure. Then, they must search for their own identity in a world…

Throughout the course of Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, we follow the completely different lives of Kambili and Amaka. Kambili grows up in an extremely wealthy and powerful family, but she is abused by her father. Then there is Amaka, who grows up under the wing of her empowering and loving mother, but her family is extremely poor. Amaka’s mother, Aunty Ifeoma, insists that Kambili and her brother visit her in Nsukka when she realizes the severity of Kambili’s abuse. When the two cousins…

“Acceptance” “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” is an inspiring and motivating essay by the iconic african american writer Alice Walker. In this essay young Alice Walker describes how she was an outgoing and sassy young girl, until it all tragically came to an end. One day when she was playing with her older brothers, a BB from a gun her brother was using struck her in the eye. After this incident, sadly, she becomes blind in one eye. After this incident her personality then changes…

In the Book The color purple by Alice Walker the main character Celie is a very shy and timid women throughout the book, she has learned to never speak her mind and has always let men control everything about who she is. In a passage in the book, For the first time Celie demonstrates that standing up to those who once scared you or harmed you will give you an amazing strength to be confident in who you are and what you can do. The passage has a tone of strength and confidence on Celie’s part,…