The Color Purple

as 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…

While Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple, which was “the first novel by an African-American woman” to win a Pulitzer Prize which had received controversy over (Gates 2425). The Color Purple is set in the early 1900s in Georgia where a woman named Celie, who writes letters to God and her sister telling about what she is experiencing throughout her life as she…

The Color Purple by Alice Walker touches on gender roles, sexism, racism, domestic violence, and sexuality. Although the book was published more than thirty years ago, all of it’s themes are still relevant today. The most pertinent theme of The Color Purple is sexuality and how it relates to Celie and Shug Avery. Without Shug, Celie would never truly learn about herself and would never know her sexuality. Until more recently, a woman’s worth was often decided by their husband. In other words,…

blacks of the era. As a poor black woman, Celie’s bad treatment is easily ignored. Having very little education or even experience with the outside world, Celie lives most of her life isolated and ignorant. The protagonist and narrator of The Color Purple. Celie is an uneducated, poor black woman with a depressing personal history. She…

Walker “The Color Purple”? It all starts with aggressive behavior at home. According to Healthline Dictionary, aggressive behavior is behavior that causes physical or emotional harm to others, or threatens to. It can range from verbal abuse to the destruction of a victim 's personal property. People with aggressive behavior tend to be short-tempered, thoughtless, and fidgety. Throughout my research, I talk about the certain aggressive behavior the character Celie faces. The Color Purple is a…

The Color Purple novel is based on a little girl that has experienced a rough past. With her mother being dead, an abusive stepfather, and no support, life is hard for this growing adolescent. As discussed in the last reader response, odd relationships are still a topic and life is becoming more of a challenge to grasp upon. Throughout the pages of the novel, Celie explains to the readers all that she has encountered. In the first chapter I had gained knowledge of what Celie and her sister,…

The Tables Have Turned Purple In The Color Purple, Alice Walker paints a very vivid picture of life for some African­American women during the 1930s. The main character, Celie, goes through a long process in the novel to gain her voice as a woman who is uneducated. Gender roles play a huge part in this story because it not only shows the good side of the characters, but the bad side as well. Throughout the novel Celie has to face men who are constantly degrading her value as a human being, but…

never won anything allowed her to say no to Dee. The main characters of Everyday Use and the Color Purple go through similar experiences albeit the differences between the two stories is the length of each journey that we get to experience. In the Color purple we see most of Celie 's life while in Everyday Use we only see a glimpse in the life of Mama and that isn 't the only difference. The Color Purple has Celie dealing with rape and an abusive husband while in Everyday Use we are witnessing…

Directed by Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple, is a tale following a poor, young, black girl named Celie throughout the journey of her life filled with violence, and recovery. The film begins with Celie giving birth to a boy; she was raped and impregnated by her own father, whom takes the baby away from her. Celie's life centered mainly around her sister Nettie, her husband called Mister, and Shug Avery: who had three children with her husband. Experiences of grief, and violence, along with…

Alice Walker formed the novel of, the Color Purple, to speak for the black women who carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. One's who refuse to speak up and express themselves, as a fear of a consequence that is bound to occur. For those who settle for heartache and pain. Due to having the belief created by their mothers, and their mothers, to not speak up and follow the demands that a man has given you. A history of miserable and doleful black women from past generations taught to…