Alice Walker And Zora Neale Hurston

Throughout Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, the main character, Celie, reveals all of the hardships she has endured during her life. Celie confides in her younger sister, Nettie, and God to express the way she feels in certain situations. As the story progresses, Celie eventually finds her voice and breaks away from all the men who oppressed her during her life. For the duration of the novel, prejudice becomes a reoccurring theme. Not only does Celie struggle with the external prejudices of sexism and racism, but she also struggles with the internal prejudices toward herself. By using Celie’s struggles as an example, Walker teaches the reader that one must overcome prejudices in order to

Many writers allow their personal experiences to influence their writing, but Zora Neale Hurston used her life to influence others. Hurston took her personal experience and used it to show impoverished black youth that they can be successful. The way she was raised influenced her and created a woman who would pave the way for feminists to be recognized as a respectable group. Hurston had a way with words that still, to this day, have an affect on youth and will affect future generations.. Her childhood and her introduction to average American society developed Hurston into a preacher of equal rights, a teacher of confidence, and a writer ahead of her time.

Zora Neale Hurston was a remarkable, widely published black woman of her day—the author of more than fifty

The Color Purple by Alice Walker starts off with a rather graphic view of a young black woman denominated as Celie. Celie has to learn how to survive her abusive past. She also has to figure out a way she can release her past in search of the true meaning of love. Alice walker wrote this book as an epistolary novel to further emphasize Celie`s life events. From the beginning of the novel Alice Walker swiftly establishes an intimate contact with the reader. The book begins with a eloquent and lucid record of the physical abuse Celie`s father subjected her to. Even in Celie`s dark moments she is still able to find hope.

Firstly, The Color Purple (1982) is written by the African- American novelist Alice Walker. For creating such an innovative novel, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple won both the Pulitzer Price and the National Book Award. Walker initiated her novel by a confession that The Color Purple is her spiritual journey and the female protagonist represents her during this journey. The novel is made up of 90 letters written by Celie to God and some of these letters are written by Nettie to her sister Celie. These letters are similar to a diary that Celie finds as a way to express her feelings , emotions and thoughts in a place she is not permitted to be free. Generally, the novel portrays a life and a journey of a young fourteen -year- old black girl who is persecuted throughout her life from her stepfather who repeatedly raped her and forced her to marry a cruel man who, in turn, oppressed her.

Zora Neale Hurston lived a very carefree life, even after she “realized when she was colored”. At a young age, when “the front porch might seem a daring place for the rest of the town, but it was a gallery seat for me”, Zora was not hindered by the societal norms that plagued blacks with fear and timidity. She did what she liked, even after her own family would try to stop her. She thought very little of what others thought of her because when she watched the white people roll into town, she “didn't mind the actors knowing that I liked it”. Zora would go as far as speaking to “them in passing” and if they waved back at her. As she grew older, Zora became increasingly confident in herself, despite the dehumanizing and oppressive way of Americans at this time. She would “Sometimes...feel discriminated against” but refused to get angry. In fact, she was astonished and would ask herself “How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?”

The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a story written in 1982 that is about the life struggles of a young African American woman named Celie. The novel takes the reader through several main topics including the poor treatment of African American women, domestic abuse, family relationships, and also religion. The story takes place mostly in rural Georgia in the early 1900’s and demonstrates the difficult life of sharecropper families. Specifically how life was endured from the perspective of an African American woman. The Color Purple is written in the form of letters that Celie narrates explaining the events that took place at certain points in her life. Celie endures physical and emotional abuse by some of the people around her including

Hurston prides herself on who she is because of her background. Her identity of being a black woman in a world

The Color Purple, is a novel written by the American author Alice Walker. The novel won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is also regarded to be her most successful piece of work. It has developed into an award winning film and was recently made into a Broadway play. The story continues to impress readers throughout the decades due to its brutal honesty. The novel successfully and truthfully demonstrates what life was like for black women during the early twentieth century. The book discusses the major struggles that women endured throughout history in the South. After the Civil War, racism towards black American’s hit it’s all time peak. Both black men and women had to live with the constant hatred and brutal abuse from members of the white society. Not only were women viewed as less important by black men, they were also oppressed by white men. This sadly caused black women to become highly unprivileged. In the novel, discrimination towards women is very prevalent. Women discrimination is a motif throughout the novel and it is also the most significant theme. The women in the novel form bonds that are important to the development of the plot and the theme. The women in the novel grow as a whole and give each other strength, power, and hope. Since Walker had to live with the torture and abuse, she does not hide from the harsh reality of how women are treated in the African American culture. Walker has written this novel to show how women have been able to gain rights

    Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, is a novel about a young girl named Celie and the events of her life.  When she is young, she is abused by her father which results in her becoming pregnant by him.  She is forced by her father to marry a man who the novel names Mister, who prefers Celie’s sister, Nettie, over Celie.  Later in her life, she comes into contact with a woman named Shug Avery, who is a former lover of Celie’s husband.  Over the course of her life with Mister, she becomes more independent due to Shug’s influence, eventually moving with Shug to Tennessee to get away from Mister.  She eventually returns to Mister, who has changed for the better realizing how much he needs Celie and his son, Harpo.  When Celie returns to Georgia, she reunites with her sister Nettie and Celie’s two children by her father.

Adams, Timothy Dow, Mary A. Blackmon, and Holly L. Norton. “Alice Walker.” Critical Survey ​of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition (2010): 1-10. Literary Reference Center. Web. 11 Feb.​​ 2017. In a biographical essay written Alice Walker, Timothy Adams speaks on the idea ​that change and personal triumph are possible despite the odds is central to all of Walker’s ​writing. The author states that Walker work focuses directly or indirectly on the ways of ​survival adopted by black women, usually in the South, and is presented in a prose style ​characterized by a distinctive combination of lyricism and unflinching realism.​Walker uses her writing to

Within The Color Purple by Alice Walker, women are treated as inferior to men therefore they must obey them. Through the strength and wisdoms Celie gains from other women, she learns to overcome her oppression and realize her self worth as a woman. The women she has met throughout her life, and the woman she protected since young, are the people that helped her become a strong independent woman. Sofia and Shug were there for Celie when she needed someone to look up to and depend on. Nettie was able to push Celie to become a more educated, independent person. The main source of conflict in this book is Celie’s struggle with becoming an independent woman who needs not to rely on a man. Throughout the book we see her grow as a person and

The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a novel about the struggle of Celie, a poor uneducated black woman who finds herself with the help of a blues singer named Shug Avery. Each character plays a major role in the strengthening of each other. From the beginning of the novel the characters of Celie, Nettie and Sofia either became stronger or lost strength through tough times. Nettie who is Celie's sister was very intellectual and recognized the importance of an education from a young age. Sofia is an assertive woman who has never backed down from a fight yet her assertiveness and her honesty and willingness to act on emotions gets her jail time.

Alice Walker’s grandmother, a young African American whom had been raped by her father, gave birth to two children, and married even though she never loved her husband. Walker’s grandmother is the inspiration for Walker’s protagonist, Celie. Same as her grandmother, Celie is raped, gives birth to two children, and marries Albert. Walker explains, “ I liberated her from her own history” (Henderson). Alice Walker took realife evidence and spun it around to emphasize the importance of the voices of African Americans. Her main explanation for creating Celie is that she wanted her grandmother, other African American women, and Celie to have a voice and speak up against white and black men (Henderson). The Color Purple composed to all letters written to God and Nettie from Celie express the importance of all voices. Epistolary novels originally

Zora Neale Hurston was an author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance who won Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. She wrote a number of books but “Their Eyes Were watching God” was by far her most successful book that she has written. “Their Eyes Were watching God’” was published in 1937 had fifty-two editions and had a rating of 109,737. This was not only the most successful book that she had written but it was also one of the most popular books of her time. That may have been her most successful book she wrote but it is the same as all of her other fiction books with uses folklore in them witch is because of her background.