The Color Purple Essay

Celies Constructed Colors The Color Purple *No Works Cited In Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, the character Celie first speaks about color when Mr. ______’s sister takes her shopping. She admires a woman she knows only by a photograph (Shug Avery) and she wants a dress that she thinks Shug might like. “I think what color Shug would wear,” she writes. Although Celie has never actually met Shug she invinsions how she would dress. The colors Celie chooses for the woman she doesn’t know

PAMELA BUENTELLO: Too much space PAMELA BUENTELLO: The title of the novel should be in italics or underlined. Hernandez 3(LitCharts: The Color Purple Themes). The reason why Celie is writing to God is because her Patells her “You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy” (Alice Walker 1).Eversense Pa told her to only refer to God, Celie only expresses herself to God, bringing the next themein the novel which is creative expression. When Celie is told to keep quiet and not say

have always been a good girl (Walker, 1).” From the first line of The Color Purple, the audience can already tell that the main character, Celie, feels as though she is a nobody. Celie is a very relatable character who talks to God about her misfortunes. This novel uses strong literary devices to provide insight into the terrible hardships that women experienced years ago and are still experiencing to this day. In The Color Purple, Alice Walker utilizes reoccurring symbols, violent imagery, and a somber

I have chosen to analyze a novel written by an African American woman, Alice Walker, in 1982. Alice has written many novels, but I have focused on The Color Purple for this assignment. The novel won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was later turned into a movie and a musical. The Color Purple takes place primarily in Georgia, and is structured around the life of African-American women in the south during the early 1900s. The character that I will be focusing on is the

THE COLOR PURPLE “The Color Purple” is an excellent novel that describes the social issues that affect women in the community. Although the novel was written in 1982 by Alice Walker, the work still outlines issues that are relevant today. “The Color Purple” has also been translated into a musical and a film portraying the same plot and themes. It is important to point out that Walker’s narration is based on the lives of African-American women from Georgia and other regions in the Southern area of

The Color Purple introduces many lovable characters to its readers. Walker's main character, Celie, is a poor, uneducated African-American woman with a sad personal history. She survives a stepfather who rapes her and steals her baby, and she also survives an abusive husband. Life could not get any worse for Celie, but as an adult, she befriends and finds intimacy with a blue's singer, Shug Avery, who motivates her to find her voice. By the end of the novel, Celie is a strong and independent woman

may seem the usual type of author that is ordinary in her writing. Actually, she is not. She uses a different method to make us feel the suspense of the story with vivid details. You only live life once so why not take advantage of it? In The Color Purple, Celie’s life is the contrary. You may ask why, but there are people out there who are afraid to speak up. Alice Walker seemed to portray this novel very well making it seem realistic. The tone Walker used in the novel seemed confessional and private

Walker’s The Color Purple, readers are introduced to Celie. She is a young, uneducated, and naive girl who, as a consequence, has a submissive nature. Whether out of fear, she follows as she is told with little thought for her wishes and desires, no matter what. For example, “I want her to do what I say, like you do for Pa.”(Walker 63). As she has a submissive nature, readers later understand that that is the only way she knows how to live and it keeps her alive. In The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

Hawkins ELA 8 5/15/18 The Color Purple: Historical and Social Affects “All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles.” This quote is from the book The Color Purple by Alice Walker. This tells the reader that the protagonist (Celie) had struggled all her life and fought for herself against her own family, which means that her life wasn’t easy. The Color Purple holds many mature themes, including sexism, racism

“You gonna do what your mammy wouldn’t” (Walker 1) stated Celie’s step father in The Color Purple. The first letter written by Alice Walker's character Celie in The Color Purple gives a brief light on how mistreated, the protagonists, Celie has been. Celie suffered through many forms of abuse and trauma. Since an early age her supposed father, Pa, sexually abused her. Celie’s husband also beat her into submission, and worked her constantly. But never the less Celie revolts against her oppressors