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The Color Purple, written by Alice Walker, is an interesting, somewhat heartfelt story. It is an amazing story filled with dynamic characters. A dynamic character is a literary character who undergoes an important inner change; a change in personality or attitude. Throughout the book, you will see quite a few dynamic characters. However, the three that really stick out are the transformations of Celie, Shug Avery, and Albert. Those three people experience both inner and outer changes. Although…

Pedophilia, racism , and terrible events , all recurring topics in both “The Bluest Eye “ and “The Color Purple” . Both movie and book cover uncomfortable , yet real topics that people of color were faced with in earlier times.Two girls specifically I am going to compare is a girl named Celie and a girl named Pecola , both had certain similar situations. A topic that I will start off with , is how in both the movie and book , a girl was raped at a young age which caused them to become pregnant.…

An endearing novel authored by Alice Walker, The Color Purple focuses on celebrating femininity and achieving religious transcendence in spite of societal constraints. Set in post-slavery America, Walker establishes a unique dynamic between gender discrimination and racial subordination to portray the immense struggle of black women. The work is often considered a key component of the black feminist movement, revealing both the innate strength of women to endure and the power of faith to surpass…

Ignatius Jacques Reilly, a beautifully ludicrous character in nearly all aspects of his large nature. He is the center of the complex interwoven story web of A Confederacy of Dunces, surrounded by a diverse group of odd yet endearing characters. Ignatius and the ensemble of eccentric characters portray the painful truths of everyday life, such as racial and class inequality, in the most hilarious way possible. Ignatius, the grotesque gluttonous genius, in his journey of absurd…

The Color Purple written by Alice Walker is a series of private letters between Celie and God, also later a few between her and her sister Nettie. Celie was a poor, ugly and uneducated African-America fourteen-year old girl. In Celie’s first letter we learn that she was beat and raped repeatedly by father, Alphonso. Her father impregnated her twice with a son and a daughter which he then put up for adoption. Celie’s father continued to abuse her and pulled her out of school. and then her…

little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love” (Walker). While the existence of personhood is often questioned as an individual learns about life, The Color Purple provides critical insight to the growth of African Americans in The South. Alice Walker lived during the latter half of the twentieth century, in the rural South. Their work often reflects the trials faced in her adolescent.…

The award winning book The Color Purple by Alice Walker has been banned in many schools around the US. Alice Walker is an African-American author who was born February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. Walker was not only a author but she was Women’s Right Activist, and a Civil Rights Activist. Growing up for was not easy for her, she was youngest daughter of eight children. Her mother and father were sharecroppers; her mother worked as a maid to support them. According Biography.com, “Alice…

The Color Purple also showcases sacrifice within the context of a familial relationship, in the form of Celie and Nettie. As the oldest child in her family, Celie takes care of her younger siblings more and more as her mother becomes sicker, eventually becoming the surrogate mother for them once her mother dies. She also begins to take her mother’s place in another sense, because as her mother loses the inclination to be physical with her stepfather, she becomes the new provider for Alphonso’s…

Alice Walker is a famous civil rights activists and writer of the popular novel The Color Purple. Growing up during the era of segregation, Alice Walker portrayed a deeper view of the history of segregation in Georgia and individual experiences into all of her books and poems. Many have questioned the appropriateness of the usage of racism and sexism within her works like The Color Purple, as well as, her poems. This sparked an outrage in many libraries and schools in several states. Alice…

Alice Walker was an extraordinary writer that influenced a different vision of the black culture through her writings. Her life experiences are what led her to her creative thoughts in her writings. In Walker’s first book, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, it points of interest the distress and recovery of a provincial black family caught in a multigenerational cycle of brutality and financial reliance. In The Color Purple, one of Walker’s most famous writing, Walker describes a black woman…