Celie In The Color Purple By Alice Walker

In ultimately finding herself at the end of the novel, Celie had to overcome the internal prejudices against herself. With the use of Shug Avery in the novel, Walker displays the hardships Celie must face with her new found sexuality. Because this relationship uses different and new feelings it “evokes so profound an erotic awakening that Celie believes she was "still a virgin" prior to it” (Hankinson). When Celie begins to have feelings for Shug, they start out innocent and then become more serious. She describes a night that they spent together when she says, “Me and Shug sound asleep. Her back to me, my arms round her waist” (Walker 116). Celie begins to allow her feelings with Shug to become reality and shows that she does not have the shy personality that everyone thinks she does. Celie breaks out of her inner prejudices again when she confides in her sister, Nettie. Celie begins to yell at the dinner table one night when she could no longer take

The book The Color Purple by Alice Walker is about a fourteen-year-old girl named Celie who is uneducated, poor, and abused. Celie starts writing letters to god about her abuse she receives daily from her father, Alphonso. Alphonso raped Celie resulting in her becoming impregnated with a girl who Alphonso both stole and killed. Celie also gives birth to another one of Alphonso´s children a baby boy who Alphonso also stole. Alphonso forces Celie in marriage to Mr._____ who also abuses her which emotionally impacted her. Celie is left abused and without a friend or companion since her sister Nettie moved to Africa to get away from her father, who she later learns is actually the girls step-father. Soon Celie meets Shug Avery Mr._____´s wife who

This essay is about the love affair in The Color Purple, a novel by Alice Walker in which, thoughts on racism, incest, rape, love and family affairs are provoked. The reader learns about these subjects through the letters that Celie, an uneducated black woman, writes to God and through the letters that her sister Nettie and Celie write to each other. I would like to discuss how Walker raises the issue of love between females, which involves trust and understanding, two aspects that the men in the novel don’t possess. The reader witnesses how the women are being oppressed and abused in this men’s world,

Alice Walker is an award winning  author, most famously recognized for her novel  The Color Purple ;aside from being a novelist Walker is also a poet,essayist and activist .Her writing explores various social aspects as it concerns women and also celebrates political as well as social revolution. Walker has gained the reputation of being a prominent spokesperson and a symbolic figure for black feminism. Proper analyzation  of Walker 's work comes from the  knowledge on her early life, educational background and position in black literature.

    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.

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.

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.

Criticized as a novel containing graphic violence, sexuality, chauvinism, and racism, The Color Purple was banned in numerous schools across the United States. Crude language, brutality, and explicit detail chronicle the life of Celie, a young black woman exposed to southern society’s harshness. While immoral, the events and issues discussed in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple remain pervasive in today’s society. The Color Purple epitomizes the hardships that African Americans faced at the turn of the century in the south.

In the 19th century, Alice Walker wrote about a young girl who was discovering her true strength and pushing through all of the obstacles presented to her. The novel describes Celie’s life and all of the dominant people she is introduced to. Celie represents the idea that no matter where someone is from, they can amount to anything they truly want. The Color Purple introduces the disruption of gender roles throughout the novel, and how they affect Celie’s growth as a person. During the 19th century, women typically had no say in society, especially in domestic situations.

Alice Walker’s realistic novel, The Color Purple revolves around many concerns that both African American men and women faced in an era, where numerous concerns of discrimination were raised. Religious and gender issues are confronted by the main characters which drive the plot and paint a clear image of what life may possibly have been like inside an African American home. Difficulties were faced by each and every character specifically Celie and Nettie who suffered heavy discrimination throughout the novel at the hands of males. These traumatising circumstances develop the characters not only emotionally but spiritually. Walker creates a wonderfully literal novel which passionately addresses issues that were evident during the age of inequality. Due to the unique writing style, captivating female character developments and spiritual nature the author has successfully created an honest and authentic novel representing life as an African American woman.

"All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. He don't want a wife, he want a dog," (Walker, 64). For centuries the fight for equality has been a non-stop battle, beginning with white women's rights and slowly transforming to women's rights for all, including queer and colored women. In Alice Walker's The Color Purple, the main character, Celie, deals with not only being a women who is seen as being next to worthless, but also has to figure out what being a women means to her sexually.

The blues. The words cultivate the immediate thoughts of feeling alone, sad, and depressed. What most do not seem to see is that there is two sides to “The Blues”. Music, played in the most beautiful of ways, depending on how the artist portrays it. Shug Avery, in Alice Walker’s, The Color Purple is a famous blues singer who plays a tremendous part in the story due to the fact that she leaves such an impact on our main character, Celie.

Throughout Alice Walker’s novel, sexual and physical violence against women to make them feel inferior continues. Fortunately, Celie and the other women in The Color Purple realize the extent of their wrongful assaults and find the strength and willpower to leave their abusive

Molestation is a topic that is painful to think about, and even more difficult to write about. Yet Alice Walker chose this as the central theme of her novel The Color Purple. Walker's work centers around a poor African American girl Celie. Celie keeps a diary, and the first section of the novel is an excerpt from her diary. After reading the excerpt, the reader comes to realize that Celie is a fourteen-year-old girl who has been molested by her father. Through this, she has lost her innocence as well as her self-worth, evident when the reader sees that the diary's words have been altered to say "I have always been a good girl" as opposed to "I am a good girl." From the moment her father molested her,

“And another thing- She tell lies.” (Walker 10) The Colour Purple, by Alice Walker is an epistolary novel written in 1983 that follows the protagonist Celie as she navigates life in a racist and misogynistic America. The book is presented as a series of letters that Celie has written to God and is unique from most literature in that the point of view is told from an often underrepresented minority; a woman of colour. However, even though Celie is not a typical narrator that does not mean her story is untrue or she is lying, it is simply a different perception of truth, it is the truth of a different group of people and the novel presents it as something genuine and valid. The way Celie experiences the world