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Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Color Purple, tells the story of a young black woman in rural Georgia over thirty years in the first half of the twentieth century. Through her letters to God and her sister Nettie, the protagonist, Celie, shares her struggles against physical, sexual, emotional and verbal abuse. Through Celie’s story and the stories of the other people in her life, the novel explores the themes of racism, sexuality, spirituality, and gender roles. Walker enriches the story and advances these themes through the use of symbols such as the sewing of quilts and pants; music; and the use of colors.

The extremely influential twentieth century novel, The Color Purple by Alice Walker reveals multiple injustices that were present in our world throughout the 1900s. Walker’s talent and experience as an African-American enabled her to effectively capture the horrors that accompanied racist and societal issues that timelessly plague our country. Walker structured The Color Purple as an epistolary novel, a type of book that is portrayed through a collection of journal entries. As a result, this confessional type novel conveys the main character, Celie in a far more intimate way that could not have been achieved through a standard fictional novel. The diary entry structure captures Celie’s trials, therefore allowing the reader to understand and sympathize with the characters. By bonding with Celie through detailed accounts of her life, the reader feels a personal connection to her. Having a close relationship with Celie is significantly

In “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” Hurston points out she realized she was colored when she went to Jacksonville. Before Hurston left Eatonille, she lived within a whole African American environment. The authors used metaphor to demonstrate that she felt colored by comparing with other people. She notes, “I found it out in certain ways; I was now a little colored girl. In my heart as well as in the mirror, I became a fast brown-warranted not to rub nor run” (186).

She begins to heal, at least in the eyes of those who observe her and look for nervousness, when she lets her resistance melt into admiring analysis and begins the process of adaptation to the yellow environment. Her torpid brain is an irritated organ, but once she engages in the "gymnastics" of following the paper's pattern her neuroses calm into studious activity. Her diary entries mark her increasing

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses symbols to portray recovery from the depth of mental illness. The main character, Jane, struggles throughout the story with severe depression. She is constantly haunted by the room she has to occupy during her stay. Yet despite it all, Jane sets herself free from her illness’s grasp. Gilman employs the symbols of the yellow wallpaper, the ripping of the yellow wallpaper, and the beautiful door to depict Jane’s journey out of her depression.

Everything in life can be associated with a color, happiness is a bright and inviting yellow, while sadness could be a dull and dismal grey. One afternoon, my twin brother, Chris, and I were sitting on the couch, smiling and laughing with one another. Vibrant shades of yellows and oranges surrounded us and made me feel safe and at ease. Our parents walked into the living room with somber looks on their faces, my mother looked upset. That was the day I found out my mother had been diagnosed with Breast Cancer. The Russell’s lifestyle was challenged now with a horrible plague my mother was burdened with. The prominent color present in the house went from a warm red to a darker shade, a color I associate with the threat of death. Something about that didn’t sit well with me.

Massaging her aching temples, Penny walked to her kitchen and grabbed a piece of bread from the cupboard, then, popping the bread in her toaster, she took her phone from her bedside table and connected it to the charger hanging on the wall above her bookcase. It had been dead for almost a whole day now and she thought it might be time for her to reconnect with society. She walked to her bathroom, carelessly pulling back her long, kinky red hair, and looked in the mirror. A lack of sleep and a general feeling of depression had caused her usually bright green eyes to seem tired, and had drained almost all color from her already-white skin. She grabbed her toothpaste.

Parts of his fingers were stained green and black. His father's face was of the colours of green and dark purple with dabs of orange running down his left cheek, connecting with the upper lip, where his long time scar had been wiped away and replaced with something, conceivably, much more undesirable. They were still in dire need of help and if they were not soon to receive it...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story The Yellow Wallpaper, we as the reader is given an intimate look at the narrators developing insanity. The reader is treated to an intimate portrait of developing insanity. The story

The original work of Lori L. Tharps’ Hair Story: Untangling the roots of Black hair in America, bought out how African hair was deemed wholly unattractive and inferior by the Europeans, and many White people preferred not to acknowledge that African hair was real, referring to it as “wool” (Tharps 13). So, firmly convinced that African hair is

After being away from his home for the last year, the young prince Kyros is finally arriving back home at his parents kingdom of Albion after studying in the city of Corinth. “ It feels great to finally be back. Don’t get me wrong I liked Corinth, but it feels good to be home” he said to one of the gate guards.His first thing he does is go to his parents the king and queen’s palace. “ Mom, Dad i’m home!” he yelled down the hall towards the throne room, but to his surprise he find his uncle Mitros sitting on the throne. He ran up to and greeted his uncle “Good to see you again uncle, but why are you here, and where are my parents, and my brother and sisters?”. Mitros gave a very sorrowful look and Kyros noticed that his uncle was on the verge

She becomes obsessed. Her obsession with the paint is a symbol for her obsession with having a perfect family. If she can find the perfect colors, then Henry will

The Color Purple is a great film that focuses on the lives of several African American women who are faced not only with slavery, but with abuse, violence, racism, and cruelty during the early 1900s. In the film, segregation plays an important role, however it does not only address the issue of racial discrimination in the early twentieth century, but also the existing cruelty among the members of some African American families. The movie shows the trials and tribulations that Southern black women faced and their victory in conquering abuse, oppression and sexism. The film 's plot centers around the childhood and adulthood of Celie, an uneducated poor black woman living in the South treated as a slave and being abused by her father since she was a child. At the age of 14 she was sold to Albert Johnson, an abusive black man, which separates her from her sister Nettie and Celie’s life is one of humiliation and abuse.

In 1982, Alice Walker published her most famed novel The Color Purple. An epistolary novel that has earned praise throughout a diverse audience, the story is set in the twentieth century in the rural state of Georgia. The Color Purple is narrated by the protagonist Celie. Walker was able to give Celie a voice that was yet to be introduced to a post-civil rights movement audience. The Color Purple ultimately circulated throughout a wide diverse audience from African American women and men to Caucasian audiences as well. It is still considered a quintessential literary piece to this day. It caused a lot of questions to arise in the midst of the book’s publishing. One of the most interesting yet most criticized characteristics of The Color Purple is the style of writing and Celie’s troubling search of self-identity throughout the novel. We get to see the struggle of several black women’s journey to find and preserve their self-identity through Celie’s point of view and how they influenced her. Here, we will speak on how Celie discovered her identity and changed her story from hopelessness and desperation to hopeful and independent.

The second chapter will bring out Womanistic elements from Alice Walker’s well acclaimed novel The Color Purple which is a touching novel and tells the story of Celie, a black woman who always lived a submissive life and was tangled into a series of mental and physical humiliations and never thought of hatching out to a new world where she could breathe in the air of liberation and equality. Alice Walker has presented issues of racism and sexism in all her works. History has witnessed the self empowerment of black women by fighting against all those who have tried to silence their voices.