The Color Purple Essay

The Color Purple follows a poor, uneducated black girl living in Georgia named Celie. Celie writes letters to god because she is constantly beaten and raped by her father Alphonso. Alphonso also presumably stole her two children she had given birth too. This story portrays many critical theories discussed in our communication class that creates a good analysis of this film. There are many conflict styles expressed in The Color Purple. The first conflict is Man vs. Society. Throughout the movie,

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, redefines work in this society by connecting independence, happiness, and purpose with one’s job. Walker shows through multiple characters and situations that the work that makes one happy does not necessary meet the gender constructs or pressure by surrounding people, and it is often necessary to break these work barriers to find happiness. This novel is attempting to show the reader that finding work that makes one happy takes time due to the pressure to do

1. Point of View: The novel The Color Purple is written from the first person point of view. The effect that the author achieves by using the first person point of view is that while you are reading the book you could put yourself in the main character’s shoes and actually imagine what she is going through and how she feels. 2. Main Characters: a. Celie in her early 50s b. Three adjectives that would describe Celie are scared, timid, and vulnerable. The quote that supports my choices is “I think

third novel, The Color Purple. These aspects had a lasting impression upon ideals and beliefs of the time period. Her writing’s helped to break the racial tension and barrier that was present in some people’s minds. One of the ways that the barrier was eliminated was through her depiction of an imperfect black person. If a white person were to write about an imperfect black person it would be considered racist. “ I think the most chilling thing to me about the response to The Color Purple was that people

In The Color Purple, written by Alice Walker, uses a feminine heroin named Celie in the Southeastern corner of the United States. Through Celie, Alice Walker portrays the thematic subject of sin and deceit by explaining her life through a series of letters. Although her life was very difficult, she was able to find a way to get through it and become stronger. The first sin that happened to Celie was the rape that occurred when she was fourteen. James Hall, author of the article “Towards a map of

“God Is Trying To Tell You Something” Color Purple In a dynamic scene near the end of the blockbuster The Color Purple, the character Shug Avery engages in a soul-stirring rendition of a gospel song called God Is Trying To Tell You Something. Shug Avery in The Color Purple could be described as a prodigal daughter Shug is portrayed as a woman of the world who loved to party, loved to dress, and loved to sports men. In the church scene near the end of the film, we see Shug performing in a "Juke Joint"

The Color Purple Book Report The Color Purple explores and introduces many themes including, the ability to express your thoughts through writing and letters, female relationships, sexism, racism and gender roles that occurred during the early 1900’s in the South. The author of the novel Alice Walker, uses the characters of the novel to help the main character Celie find herself as a woman and stand up to the men in her life that take advantage of her. The Color Purple is an epistolary and fiction

The book I read was The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The story begins with 14-year-old Celie writing her first letter to God. She tells how her “father” rapes her when he mother refuses his advances in her sickened state. Soon after, her mother dies and she has a child. Not long after, she has another child by the man she calls her father and begins to be concerned for the safety of her little sister as well. Celie goes on to be married to a man chosen for her, Albert, even though his first choice

“What unites the characters of The Color Purple is a shared experience of suffering” (Fiske 151). In her article, Shanyn Fiske unifies all characters in The Color Purple through something that everyone experiences in their life—suffering. While all characters suffer in the novel, Alice Walker illustrates the universal need for community in order to cope and recognize our own unique experiences of suffering The isolation and abuse that Celie receives and the unique path that she follows modeled by

In Color Purple, Celie lives most of her life without a family, but then her friendships grow enough to be family. At the end of the movie, Celie was finally surrounded by the family that she had been wishing for all along. Celie lives with Shug at the end of the movie in the house her real father left to her. And just like the letter Nettie sent to Celie when she told Celie to watch for her in the sunset, she came to Celie in the end. Nettie found where Celie lived, and went to her, and with her