The Color Purple By Alice Walker

The Color Purple The Color Purple was written by Alice Walker based on a story in the early 1920’s. The main character, Celie Jones grew up being raped and abused by the man she thought was her father. Celie was forced to marry a man only to take care of his children and his house. Celie faced many stuggles throughout the book from her losing her connection with her sister, being beaten by her husband and not accepting herself as a beautiful woman. Celie meets Shug who is used as her foil throughout the book but Shug brings Celie to realize her worth.

“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker is a series a letters by and to the main character, Celie. The book begins with fourteen year old Celie writing to God about her father raping her and taking away her children. After Celie's mother dies, Celie focuses on protecting her sister, Nettie, from her father's sexual advances and encourages her to run away. A widower called “Mr. __” wants to marry Nettie, but their father rejects him. Eventually Celie marries Mr. __, who later is called Albert, and her living conditions do not improve at all. Celie becomes infatuated with Shug Avery, a blues singer who is her husband's mistress. Years later, Celie helps nurse Shug back to health. Eventually, they fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, Nettie

Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, is narrated by an African American woman named Celie. When the novel first begins, Celie is a vulnerable and abused young girl who writes letters addressed to God. The reader follows Celie through thirty years of her life, witnessing how she struggles to develop her own self-identity and extricate herself from a submissive role society bestowed upon her by a male-dominated and prejudice society. Furthermore, Celie is only able to forge this new identity with the help of females around her, including her sister.

In the novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker uses men to push Celie to the attraction and affection of women. Celie’s abused by the two men in her life that should protect her, her stepfather and husband. Celie’s used to being victimized by men that she clings onto women because they provide her with a sense of being and motivation. The sexual and physical abuse that Celie encountered pushed her to the attraction and affection of Shug Avery. Everything that the men lack to give Celie, Shug have given her, such as a reason to smile, instructions on how to please her body, and security.

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.

But to black women, it was rare hope for freedom. The Color Purple by Alice Walker tells the story of Celie, an underprivileged black orphan girl, facing rape, abuse, neglect, manipulation, and oppression from both her stepfather and husband. She finds healing through a lesbian relationship and finally reaches rebellion and independence. Two years after its publication, a high school in Oakland, California banned The Color Purple

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.

In the novel, the color purple, Alice Walker said “A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody’s children, I said, and I am something”, clearly supporting the idea that self-actualization is independent from gender roles. It’s this sense of self-actualization and how it leads to empowerment that the minor characters in the color purple consistently conveyed throughout the novel. Minor characters aren’t minor at all; in fact, they play major roles in leading various areas in the thematic development, symbolism and adding dimension to the main characters.

Abuse, particularly when it comes to black women, often occurred in the early twentieth century. The novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker touches on the abuse Celie endures as a child, and expands upon the struggles she continues battling throughout her adult life. With a husband who carries on an ongoing affair with the mother of his children, Celie comes to the realization that her husband had been hiding letters addressed to Celie written by her sister Nettie from her for years. Shug Avery and she rescue the letters and read the fascinating story that unfolds.

The Color Purple is an passionate novel based on the letters wrote by a hopeless black woman who goes by Miss Celie. In Celie’s letters, she illuminates the negative boundaries in role of tradition gender, sexism, racism and sexual relationship. Those negative boundaries have set up the unfairness treatment for black women in early twenty century. Back then, base on norms, men should play in masculine roles, which usually related to strength, controlling, and dominance, while women should play in feminine roles which are usually related to weak, nurturing, and obey. The social position is base on one’s skin color, white people always have higher position than black. Some black had been treated less than human, specially for those black women. On relationship, it is normal that person is only attracted to the opposite sex. Due to these inequality boundaries, many characters in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple have breaches the boundaries; Sofia’s strength and rude, Harpo’s timidity and weakness, the sexual ambiguity that develop between Celie and Shug also the sexual abuse from Celie’s childhood. since it is not appropriate to cross the boundaries back in early twenty century, they all learn the way to accept the true and behave from those around them. Sofia bear the consequence to been impolite to mayor’s wife, Harpo changed become more manly, furthermore, Celie and Shug Avery hide their feeling inside. It is not their fault to cross the boundaries, all people are equal,

“The Flowers” by Alice Walker is a short story that describes a young girl’s abrupt transition from childhood to adolescence when she discovers a lynched man’s dead body as she explores the areas surrounding her family’s sharecropper home. The story’s gradual change in tone, mood, and diction creates a suspense as the young girl realizes the unfamiliarity and strangeness in the far land. The narrator uses the symbolic meaning of flowers to show the protagonist, Myop’s transition from childhood naivety and innocence to adolescent awareness. She also uses this symbolism of flowers to emphasize the fragility of life. Walker uses flowers to symbolize Myop’s innocence.

The novel ‘The Color Purple’ by Alice Walker is a story about a woman called Celie. She suffered from abuse and assault from her father, and husband. From the beginning of the book, she was very submissive to Mr.____ and did whatever he ordered to her. However, in the middle phase, the novel goes up to climax, which is Celie looked back in the miserable old days, and Mr.____’s misdeed made her upset, then she left him with Shug to Tennessee.

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.

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” Straight from the mouth of Alice Walker this quote was spoken in order to point out that fact that none of God’s creatures were put on this Earth to be someone else’s property. Alice Walker is an African-American novelist and poet who took part in the 1960’s civil rights movement in Mississippi. Walker's creative vision was sparked by the financial suffering and racial horror of African American life and culture in the rural South. Her writing explores different relationships among women and embraces the compensating power of social and political revolution. Walker was a catalyst for change during her lifetime.

Alice Walker, the author of The Color Purple, grew up in the harsh conditions of the South in the 1940’s. Alice walker was raised in the middle of the Women’s Rights Movement and had to find hope to get through all of the challenges she had to face. In The Color Purple, Alice Walker uses the main character, Celie, as an example of hope. Hope helps Celie overcome oppression, abuse, and other challenges. Celie is used as an example of the life of a woman during the time of the Civil Rights Movement, and how she had to cope with all of the hardships life threw at her. Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain things to happen. By having hope, Celie is able to believe that one day everything will be will be the way she wants.