The Color Purple By Alice Walker

“The Flower” by Alice Walker is a story about the loss of childhood innocence. The main character, a young girl named Myop, is enjoying a summer morning by gathering flowers when she stumbles upon a decaying body who has been lynched. By this situation, Myop can no longer erase that horrific image and will be traumatized forever, therefore; her childhood, like the summer, is now over. Walker uses symbolism, and setting to prepare the readers for the end in which the story is develop

The writings of Alice Walker has inspired her audience to vision many viewpoints of her life and political circumstances. Walker has been wounded repeatedly, seem to be starting from her childhood, and it remains her calling to bring healing to her own wounds and in the process, to bring healing to others (Winchell 86). Walker uses metaphors and imagery to tell her stories in a way that makes her audience feel as if their living the characters life. In her short stories “The Flowers” Walker writes about a 10 year old girl name Myop, who loses her innocence after seeing a lynch man’s dead body, in the woods behind her parent’s cabin. ‘The Flowers” images the sense of being nearsighted to reality and losing a childhood that can never be replaced. (Walker experienced the loss of her childhood, the same of a disfiguring scar, and social inadequacy, would soon give her a rise, in her writing, to voices with tone of resentment, anger, and to feel again like a little girl) (Royster 349).

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.

“Beauty and The Beast” is a classic well known romantic Disney movie that depicts the gender role of men and women in society. The film is based upon a smart young female protagonist named Belle who is imprisoned by a self-centered young prince after he has been turned into a beast. They both learn to love each other in the end and throughout the film there are several examples shown portraying the roles of gender. In the film the main characters Gaston and the Beast portray themselves as rude, conceited and more important than the woman even though the main character Belle is a woman whom is considered odd, yet smart, and unrelated to most women in society.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker is about a girl named Celie who gets sold off to another man by her father because she is “ugly. She deals with rape from her father who had already impregnated her twice and sold one child and killed the other, abuse, and slavery. Her sister on the other hand, got to go to school and become an educated woman because she was “beautiful”. All throughout the story, Celie thinks that she was isolated and forgotten because her sister moved away to Africa to preach, but little does she know, her sister had been writing letters to her the whole time but Mr. ___ (that’s the name of her new “owner”) had been keeping them from her. Celie went on to fight for her rights, express her inner beauty and found her children. She escaped from Mr. ___ and became a loving mom and great business women. The deeper meaning of this book is to never give up no matter how hard the situation is. Celie kept going and fought for her rights even though she would get abused and neglected.

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.

In the early 1900’s society 's attitudes toward women were not always positive ones. Women often faced sexism, discrimination, racism, and abuse which is demonstrated throughout the book, The Color Purple by Alice Walker. When these prevailing attitudes came face to face with the diverse personalities of the women in this book they not only affected each other but their society as a whole. These attitudes included, but were not limited to, disrespect, jealousy, selfishness,infidelity, and abuse. These women were forced to survive their own struggles in their own way, and whether they chose to do it alone or together they did survive. Although they may have been weakened at times these women had unbreakable spirits that by the end were

Women can often experience suppression in their daily lives due to people including husbands, co-workers, or peers. Many of these people will underestimate the capabilities of women and treat them in an unjust manner. The women in the novel initially symbolize a wrinkled piece of cloth. A person tramples on a smooth piece of cloth and wrinkles appear. Just like in the novel, the men overpower and show authority towards the women and cause them to become fearful and scared. But when someone comes around and irons this piece of cloth it can become smooth again. In the novel, there are people the women encounter that help them to find themselves and let go of these “wrinkles” signifying fear and being inferior. Instead they become a smooth

Paradoxical to popular belief, traditional gender roles are not something one’s taught but rather something one learns. At a very young age, children are infused with the mindset that they must act a certain way. Likewise, in Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple, the protagonist Celie, believes that she is obligated to do what men tell her to. She starts writing letters to God since she has nobody else to share her secrets with. Soon she meets a woman named Shug, who makes her realize that there is more to life than she really thinks. Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple demonstrates the progression of gender roles by emphasizing the importance of being able to express one’s thoughts and discovering oneself.

Violence. Religion. Race. Love. Family. Marriage. Sex. Women and femininity. These are the main focuses of The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The story starts off right away with a 14 year old girl named Celie getting raped by her father. Ever since, her mom has fallen ill, her father, Alphonso, beat and raped her. She became pregnant twice (one girl and one boy) as a result of the tragic events. Alphonso also took her children away from her. Celie believes that he killed her first child and gave her second child away. Eventually, Celie’s mother dies and is replaced with another woman who is the same age as Celie (which is about 15 years old)! Celie also has a younger sister named Nettie. They find out that man known as Mr._____ wants to marry

Alice Walker is an African-American woman’s activist/feminist and author who was born in the early 1940s, in Eatonton, Georgia. Walker lived in the the rural south at a time when there were heavy poverty and racial violence amongst most African Americans. The circumstances that Walker faced ended up contributing to the person that she is today and it is reflected in many of her novels. Even throughout the trials and tribulations that Walker endured, she was still able to succeed in life. As a young child, Walker had an accident with a BB gun and ended up going blind in one eye. Because of this injury, this turned Walker into a very timid and shy child, Walker eventually graduated and left home to go to college and later got involved in the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Many years later in Walkers young adult life, she endured major depression from having to deal with the termination of her pregnancy. In the 1960s, she returned to Mississippi, where she met a Jewish civil rights law student named Mel Leventhal, where they eventually married and moved to Mississippi. Alice eventually got pregnant, but unfortunately miscarried the baby. Over the years, she channeled many of the experiences that she faced into fictional stories about the lives of blacks in America, especially woman in the South. The characters in Walkers writings faced a lot of the same trials that Walker herself endured such as, racism, violence, discrimination of woman, low self-esteem, and etc.

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 main character, Celie, a young girl who suffers through poverty, rape and abuse from a very young age, but remains strong and steadfast throughout her life. It is this reason that I have chosen to apply Chapter 6 of The Sisters are Alright,

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker is a epistolary novel which portrays the struggles of African American women for independence, self esteem, and identity. The effect of racism and sexism on the black community, especially black women is expressed throughout the book. This novel is told through letters which chronologically goes through 30 years of Celie’s life in South America. The 91 letters written by both Celie and her sister Nettie awakens Celie where she gains a spiritual encouragement from Nettie, Sofia, and Shug. The Color Purple is the sisterhood of Celie, Nettie, Shug and Sofia which contributes a lot to Celie’s escape from slavery.

An artist stands in the studio before a blank canvas on an easel, with a palette of colors in hand. Not knowing which to choose from, the artist looks over the variety of shades thinking about the different possibilities, willing to create something extraordinary. With an open mind, the artist ponders the idea of creating something entirely original that goes against the artistic styles practiced before. All on his own Pablo Picasso created a different style of art, and practiced painting things his own way. He believed in redefining and reinventing past techniques in order to make them more original; no matter what the preconceived notion society had at the time of what style

Alice Walker 's second novel, The Color Purple (1982), is arguably her best known publication to date. The novel follows a young African-American woman named Celie, who is oppressed under a forced marriage with a abusive man named Mr.__. A film adaptation was directed in 1982 by famous Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg. While the book and film have both proved to be successes, there are some subtle and major differences between the two works.