Purple

Shug Avery is a pivotal character in Alice Walker's the color purple due to the affect she has on Celie and Albert. Shug helps Celie define who she is as a person and change her outlook upon life and the current situations that she's facing. She also has a very special relationship with Albert spanning back many years into both their youths. Shug is used in the book as a character designed to further move the plot and show the mentality changes in Celie and Albert over the course of the book.She…

had very bad relationships with men. I am now in the midst of a very painful separation. I am trying to find my strength through women - without my friends, I could not survive.’ One other female relationship that is notably described in The Colour Purple is an intimate relationship that involves Celie and a strong-willed woman known as Shug. An example of their intimate relationship quotes, ‘us kiss and kiss till us can’t hardly kiss no more. Then us touch each other…then I feels something real…

Equality and freedom for black women in the early 1900s wasn't concepts they were quite familiar with. Alice Walker is the author of “The Color Purple”. Alice Walker was 38 when she wrote this book. Alice grew up in Eatonton, Georgia. She went to two different colleges and she traveled to New York, Africa and Jackson Mississippi. This book is a series of letters to God and later her sister Nettie. These letters were written by a 14 year old girl, Celie. Celie is a poor, uneducated black woman…

In the Color Purple, Celie, the protagonist, lived in a place riddled with racism and sexism, the South. The novel takes place over forty years of Celie’s life, from the age of fourteen to the age of fifty. The importance of a friend or mentor was a significant theme in The Color Purple. Someone who can make one see their inner beauty is a vital part of life, especially for women. Shug Avery, a carefree, glamorous woman, was that person for Celie. As the novel progressed, Shug’s relationship…

The Color Purple could really have 10 different themes but the one that made most sense was the power of love and Alice Walker really nailed it. The book is centered around Celie, the main character whom at the beginning of the story is 14 years old. At the beginning love isn't a thing for her especially with her father Alphonso who rapes her and disregards her. As the story comes along Celie begins to build a relationship with Shug Avery and her sister Nettie which leads her to learn the true…

relationships of mothers to their children and the children they want to have become a reoccurring thematic element. These relationships, with their differences, impacted every woman’s femininity in differing ways. The female characters from Sula, The Color Purple, Being Mary Jane, Salvage the Bones, “On Monday of Last Week” are powerfully influenced by the importance of motherhood and the emphasis placed on it in society. In each of these stories, motherhood impacts each…

In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Celie is a strong black woman, but for a while didn’t know it. Walker takes her time throughout the book to shape Miss Celie. In the beginning, she shows Celie as an uneducated abused woman who doesn’t know who she is but by the end of the book Celie is crafted into a whole new person. Alice Walker shapes Celie into a new person throughout the book with the help of strong female characters and does so by employing a flawless literary arc. In the exposition,…

A Troubling Time Omari Samir Dickerson The Color Purple published 1982 This book is set back in the 20 century it is about a girl named Celie who writes her letters to God about her life and things she has dealt with since she was a child. When she was a little girl her father used to abuse her and also rape her while her mother fell sick. Soon after her mother died Celie had a child by her father and he set it up for adoption but he had her to believe that he killed it. Time went by and she…

In The Color Purple, the setting changes and gives a sense of perspective through the eyes of Celie and Nettie. The setting first starts at Celie and Nettie’s home, where Celie’s father consecutively raped her. Celie’s vulnerability begins in these tragic moments as a child. The setting makes a change to Albert’s house where Celie is forced to become his wife and be his maid. She is abused and raped by Albert, consequently, changing Celie’s emotions. She is no longer a happy young girl. As Celie…

In the book the color purple, Alice Walker creates the character through self discovery and love through the descriptive journal entries of Celie growing up into a woman. This story is narrated by Celie, a character unsure of who she is truly and who she can trust. In the beginning, Celie is a controlled young girl at the age of fourteen crippled by the weight of the world on her shoulders. After her mother dies she is even more afraid and has even bigger responsibilities. Celie is afraid of…