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 Colour Purple by Alice Walker is a story about two sisters, separated for decades, trying to get back to each other. On their respective journeys, they encounter everything from the cruelty of discrimination, to the warmth and comfort of love. Celie, the elder of the two, who had to endure rape and physical abuse from her father, marries a man much older than she is, only to beaten more by her new husband, all the while being torn away from the schooling which she so yearned to continue. She soon meets Shug Avery, Mr.____’s lover, and a lounge singer who causes Celie to question her own sexuality and teaches her how to control the path of her own life. Meanwhile, the younger sister, Nettie, after being rushed away from Celie and

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,

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.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker is an epistolary novel criticized for its immoral and sensitive issues, such as incest, rape, and physical abuse. The story takes place in the early 1900's in the South, and symbolizes the unmerciful social, emotional, and economic hardships that African American women faced. The protagonist of the story is Celie, a woman who has been abused since her youth and documents her struggles through letters written to God and eventually to her sister Nettie, who is a missionary in Africa. Her sister’s experiences in Africa are a direct correlation to Celie’s life in America and emphasizes key themes in the novel, such as sexism, racism and power struggle, and the importance of women working together to overcome

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.

Literature is the author’s vehicle, commandeered for the purpose of transferring societal commentary to a definitive audience. In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, the writing is a medium for Walker’s political agenda. Through literary elements such as stereotypes, diction, juxtaposition, and symbolism Walker explores the issue of gender roles. The action of the novel opens with strict standards of men and women, progresses to a building contrast of characters outside of these standards, and closes with the breaking of standards. The literary elements are used to successfully emphasize oppressive gender roles with the purpose of empowering women and men to confront the unjust issue.

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.

Set against the patriarchal backdrop of the Deep South with its norm of male dominance, Alice Walker’s novel, The Colour Purple, maps the journey the protagonist, Celie, makes through patriarchal subservience toward self-awareness and personal freedom. Walker uses an epistolary structure to record Celie’s progress. A series of letters written to God and later, as a dialogic correspondence with her sister reveals Celie’s growth and the power of communication. Celie’s letters to Nettie are invisible; Nettie never sees them. They are a means through which Celie can chronicle her life and consider her responses to and understanding of the circumstances in which she finds herself. Writing the letters creates a sororal bond but like Celie’s letters

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.

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.

Alice walker once said, “No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.” The color purple has timelessly been used to convey pictures of power and ambition, it is also associated with the feeling of independence. The Color Purple is the story of the constant struggle of a young girl named Celie. In this novel the author, Alice Walker, chooses to tell Celie’s story through letters that she has written. Celie isn’t writing these letters to someone that she can see or even speak to, however, she is writing to God, someone who knows everything and everyone and is considered our spiritual father. The letters that she is writing depict the raw uncensored events that have occurred in not just Celie’s life but it is the truth for many other women’s lives as well. Nettie, Celie’s younger sister, was the reason for Celie to continue to go on even if there is a sense of doubt about whether or not she is alive. Celie later finds that Nettie was alive and was writing to her but Albert had been keeping the letters secret. Thus she began to loathe Albert. All throughout the book Ceile constantly denied her own inner strength and her power to fight for herself. The constant struggle she faces throughout her

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Alice Walker as a writer, artist, short story author, dissident and women 's activist has constructed a well-known notoriety around the world. Her exceptionally acclaimed novel The Color Purple turned out in 1982, won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and the American Book Award, the first African American lady to win these two grants. (Alice) Everyday Use is one of her famous and grand short stories in which she addresses the problem of African and Americans who were attempting to characterize their individual characters in social terms. The story goes around a few issues of legacy which build a clash between the characters of the story, each with distinctive purpose of perspectives. Walker 's utilization of image of "Quilt" and the distinction of comprehension the legacy of family, in the middle of Mama and Maggi with Dee, makes an extraordinary story.