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The Color Purple by Alice Walker


The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, is a very intense book to read. By


intense, I mean it is a book touching very difficult and hard aspects of life of


a poor, black oppressed woman in the early twentieth century. Walker does


social criticism in her novel, mostly criticizing the way black women were


treated in the early twentieth century. Walker uses the life experiences of


Celie to illustrate her social criticism.


The Color Purple is not written in the style of most novels. The author


does not tell us everything about the characters, the setting, and why the


characters behave the way they do. The novel is written in a series of letters,


not dated. There are large gaps between some letters, but this is not revealed


by the author; we have to figure it out ourselves. The letters are written in


what Walker calls black folk language, which also reduces the easiness of the


reading. When the novel opens, Celie is a young black girl living in Georgia in


the early years of the twentieth century. She in an uneducated girl, and writes


her letters in common language. Celie is entering her adolescence believing she


was raped by her father and that he killed both of their children. She writes


to God, because she has no one else to write to. She feels that what happened


to her is so terrible that she can only talk about it to someone she feels loves


her. She knows her sister Nettie loves her, but she is too young to understand.


Celie believe only to God may she talk honestly and openly about her suffering.


Celie is not, however, at this point, complaining to God, she is simply


confiding in him.


Celie was born into a poor family;

her mother was sick most of the time,


mentally and physically; there were too many children in the family; and Celie


was abused by the man she believed was her father. Celie feels used and abused,


but does not understand why. So many bad things have happened to Celie that she


lacks self esteem and confidence. Celie does not even feel she is worth enough


to sign her name at the end of the letters.


Slowly, Celie evolves into a mature woman with great confidence, but not


before her sister Nettie is taken away from her, and she marries a cruel man who


really wanted to marry Nettie. For a long time, Celie is almost a slave to her


husband, until her husband’s mistress comes to live with them to recuperate from


a sickness, and Celie becomes her nurse. Shug is a strong woman, and encourages


Celie to grow stronger. At the same time, Sofia, Celie’s daughter in law, shows


Celie to stand up for herself and fight prejudice and injustice, and fight.


By the end of the novel, Celie’s new strength pays off, because she is


able to live happily with the people she loves. She reunites with Nettie and


her two children, who have been raised by Nettie. Celie learned to fight, to


stand up for herself, and she was rewarded. Celie was able to survive


physically and spiritually, and is able to mature into a full, modern twentieth


century woman.


In The Color Purple, Alice Walker is able to illustrate the abuse,


neglect, and oppression a black woman had to go through in the early twentieth


century, but she also illustrate how a woman must fight back to regain the self


esteem and confidence lost way back in the early adolescent years. The Color


Purple is a story about growth, endurance, and fight, all nurtured by love.

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