Alice Walker and the Color Purple

Alice Walker speaks of her mother and grandmothers’ dark pasts of slavery and discrimination throughout their lives. Although women through the years have had it tough, colored women have and continue to have a deeper struggle within society. Alice Walker’s essay is inspiring and heartwarming because it tells of how the women in their lives have found beauty within a dark part of history. Her mother although had little, found a sense of identity with the joy of her own vibrant garden. She speaks a lot about how many people of color continued to keep their identity and spirituality in a time where they could have been discouraged. I think that Walker’s essay is really eye opening because so many women have struggled before us to pave the way for women of all

I enjoyed reading the novel The Colour Purple by Alice Walker, as well as watching the movie adaptation of it. The Colour Purple film directed by Steven Spielberg is well made and captures the true feeling and moments of which were felt when the thoughts were expressed through written words in the novel. There are various similarities and differences between the novel and the film which create mood alterations and a dynamic view. Some of the differences between the film and the novel are the alteration of the narrative structure, some of the attitudes and actions of the characters, the relationships between the characters, and how the novel creates more in depth feelings and developments of the characters and their relationships. The structure of the film is different than the novel because the novel is composed of letters Celie writes to God; however the movie doesn’t show this. The novel shows Celie’s journey as she expresses herself through her letters which she deeply expresses her thoughts, feelings and emotions. In the film Celie is not shown expressing herself this way instead a different connection with God is created. The film excludes Celie’s strong and deep relationship with God which prevents her from partaking in a lot of self-reflection. There are a few details that are also altered between the novel and the film. Some of which include how in the novel Nettie runs away but in the film she is sent away from her sister, the novel talks about Nettie’s time in

When The Color Purple is viewed through the gender/feminist lens, the traditional ways society understands men and women is dramatically altered. Alice Walker defies gender norms with her emphasis on the fact that gender and sexuality are not always as simple as society typically thought. By creating characters that challenge gender stereotypes and break out of the norms of society, she creates a book that dissolves gender barriers. With her use of strong, unique characters, Alice is able to change the way people viewed women and men. Characters like Shug Avery and Harpo defy the gender roles expected of them, and influence those around them to change their roles in society as well. While there are characters that reflect gender norms,

The award-winning novel, “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker, is a story about a woman going through cruel things such as: incest, rape, and physical abuse. This greatly written novel comes from a very active feminist author who used many of her own experiences, as well as things that were happening during that era, in her writing. “The Color Purple” takes place in the early 1900's, and symbolizes the economic, emotional, and social deprivation that African American women faced in Southern states of America. The main character of the story is Celie, a fourteen-year old that starts writing letters to God for thirty years, and then to her sister, Nette, who ran away to Africa to save herself from the troubles Celie went through. Celie starts off as a pushover and very dependent girl that would eventually grow and develop into an independent flourishing woman that opens a business making pants for all genders. This novel shows the hardship of a girl becoming a woman over the course of her life and eventually standing up for herself and being confident. Many of the experiences and characters of “The Color Purple” are based on history of that time and a bit of the author’s personal experiences. Her use of epistolary allows the reader to learn everything in the point of view of Celie. Alice Walker's influences for writing this novel range from her childhood experiences to the white society in her hometown of Eatonville, Georgia. Even during these times, it still shows that women

The world may seem like a sophisticated place, but there are still many areas to improve on, like giving women the right to equality. However, in 1960, the first ever female president, Sirivamo is elected in Sri Lanka. After living a life of domestic abuse in a culture where women are looked down upon, she takes the risk to prove that women are capable of reaching a higher and dominant role in society. Even though many years have passed since then, the culture of male dominancy still exist today. In countries like Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, women can not drive or step out of the house without a man by their side. In the novel The Color Purple, Celie is living in a male dominant society that is very oppressive to women. As a result, she is both emotionally and physically broken, but in the end she gains enough confidence to realize her own inner beauty and strength. In the novel The Color Purple Alice Walker proves that women are fully capable of overcoming oppression in order to achieve gender equality. Therefore, women around the world need to stand up for themselves and persevere to eventually overcome male dominancy. Throughout the story, Celie learns to assert female empowerment by adapting to the real world which has the good and the bad, learning from some who grow up in gender respected families and finally, and taking life changing advice from the people she trusts.

Alice Walker is a very well-known and well respected author, she worked as a teacher, social worker, and lecturer, and took part in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Alice Walker’s life greatly impacted her monumental writing style, many of her stories have a young female character who is learning and maturing through different experiences such as the concept of death. Taking part in the Civil Rights Movement shows her bravery and that she will fight for what is right under all costs. This shows in her writing because her protagonists and usually very brave and strong through difficult times. Two famous short stories of Alice Walker are “The Flowers” and “To Hell with Dying”, although these stories have developed different

One of the most inspiring authors in American history is Alice Walker. Walker is the youngest child in a sharecropper family that found her overly ambitious and highly competitive (Walker 609). This gave her a strong fighting attitude, which allowed her to make positive changes in an extremely racist society. Unfortunately, when she was young, Walker was accidentally shot in her right eye with a BB gun while playing “Cowboys and Indians.” This accident caused Walker to lose her self-esteem and her captivating personality. As a result, she secluded herself from the outside world and began to write. During this time-the 1950’s and 1960’s- Alice Walker’s works channeled the hardship and inferiority that she realized as a black person (Whitted).

Alice Malsenior Walker was born February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. Her father Willie Lee Walker worked as a sharecropper and a dairy farmer. Her mother Minnie Walker worked as a maid to help support her family of eight children. Alice also married activist, Melvyn Leventhal in 1967. Alice and Melvyn had moved to Mississippi and became, “the first legally married inter-racial couple in Mississippi.” ( Beaulieu) They later had one daughter named Rebecca Walker in which they later divorced in 1976. Alice Walker, is a novelist, essayist, poet, and feminist.

Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is an excellent account of life as a poor woman in the 1900’s. Not only most women characters in The Color Purple suffered from racism due to gender and skin color, but woman who suffered at the hands of men. All the burdens handed, abuse, and emotions provoked, it’s unbearable. In The Color Purple, Alice Walker resembles the hardships of Women in the 1900’s though the character relationships with men. The character relationships help us to understand how Alice Walker portrayed physical abuse, emotional abuse, and mental abuse of women.

Alice Walker, famed author and civil rights activist, was born to sharecropper parents in Eatonville, Georgia in February of 1944. Alice was the youngest daughter of sharecroppers; her mother also worked as a maid to help support her eight children. At a young age, an incident with her older brothers seriously damaged her eye when her brother Curtis accidentally shot Walker in the eye with a BB gun while playing “cowboys and Indians.” To avoid getting into trouble with their parents, Walker’s frightened brothers made up a story and convinced naive Alice to go along with it. The result was Walker lost the sight in her right eye. A disfiguring white scar developed. Walker became very self-conscious of this mark. This incident molded her early years and caused her to largely withdraw from the world around her. She felt ugly and disfigured, so she found solace in reading and writing poetry. This incident and her modest family roots contributed to her writing style exposed in later works.

The book named is a Biography of Alice Walker and her life including her books and the life she lived as a young black female in America. This book also looks at the thoughts and beliefs that Alice Walker had and how they could draw in and inspire such a large number of people that it did. The book also covers the less significant parts of Alice’s life such as her earlier life and her inspiration towards being who she was eventually. The book is written on both informational and influential stance.

Alice Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, African-American novelist, poet, and feminist who most famous for authoring The Color Purple. Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. She worked as a social worker, teacher, and lecturer, and took part in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.

The United States of America was under the control of the Britain Empire until 1776, when America was just only the 13 colonies. On July 4th, 1776, the Continental Congress declared the United States of America as its own new nation. The Fourth of July is celebrated as a federal holiday every year celebrating the independence achieved from defeating Britain in the American Revolutionary War. America has a collection of achievements and disasters since 1776. The epistolary novel, The Color Purple by Alice Walker takes place in Rural Georgia in 1910 to 1940 and talks about the life of an African American woman through the years. The novel, Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown is a nonfiction novel about how the United States won gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The American novels, The Color Purple and Boys in the Boat collected the ideas of the American hardships, the happiness from being American, and the many opportunities possible in America.

Aggressive behavior at home. The term brings out pictures of a lady slouched in a corner, crying as her spouse slaps and shouts at her. Yet, while the term infers a regular picture of misuse, we must understand that individual instances of aggressive behavior at home perpetually vary. The Color Purple, a film adjusted from Alice Walker 's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, relates a poor Black lady 's long lasting battle with abusive behavior at home. The film unravels in a Georgian farmhouse amid the mid 1900s, where Celie and her younger sibling, Nettie, live in steady trepidation of their stride father 's enthusiastic and sexual ill-use. While commentators contend that the film mollifies male harsh examples upon Black ladies, this report demonstrates that Celie 's particular circumstance shows the demonstrated issues, reasons, outcomes, and resolutions of household misuse.

By dissecting the events in a novel, we are able to differentiate realism versus a fairytale and further explicate the text. A realistic novel consists of occurrences that are life-like events that are more relatable to the readers, while a fairytale novel involves coincidental and convenient events with happy endings. In the novel, The Color Purple, Alice Walker presents the life of a 14 year old African American girl Celie, through letters to God and her sister Nettie, who she fears she will never see again. The impractical events that occur in The Color Purple demonstrate fiction. Although there are some realistic elements such as the Jim Crow Laws, the events between Celie and her daughter are too convenient and the reality of Celie economically surpassing poverty does not justify the overall genre, causing it to be a fairytale.