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IV ThemIV Theme The Color Purple elicits multitudinous generalizations upon bitter circumstances. The novel possesses a surfeit of themes. One of the major themes in The Color Purple is the sexual relationships between the male and female characters, sexism. Walker stages her story of the transformation of Celie from a female that is passive to one who eventually becomes an independent black woman in the culture of the rural society from the 1920s to the early 1940s. Celie is dominated by her father

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I have a confession to make about the book The Color Purple by Alice Walker. I cried after only reading the first thirteen pages of the book. The story was so moving that at times I had to set the book down just so I could digest it all. The story follows two sisters down their extremely different paths through life. While the older sister Celie is forced to live a life married to a man chosen by her father and is at times abusive, her sister Nettie spends her life as a missionary to Africa surrounded

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In The Color Purple the author chooses to use an epistolary narration (in letter form) to convey the main character Celie. She addresses her letters to God creating this intimate view into Celie’s life and way of thinking. The narrative follows this format, except for the first line. The first line giving the readers the purpose for why Celie wrote letters to god. You could also associate the unsent letters with the culture of women in that time period, women who historically, have been denied access

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The title of my book is The Color Purple and it is written by Alice Walker. The book was originally published in 1982, the publisher is Harcourt, And there are 288 pages in the book. There was an adapted version also printed in 1985.Celie the narrator of The Color Purple is a very poor woman who hasn't gone to school. She is a fourteen living in Georgia who starts to write letters to God. Even though she is very young she has been abused and sexually assaulted by her father who does it on a daily

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The book The Color Purple is based on the main character Celie’s letters to God. Throughout her life Celie has struggled with being abused and not being able to stand up for herself. She feels as if she is an object that is owned by her husband. Celie does everything she is told and still gets treated with disrespect. Being that Celie is an uneducated African American women, people might not treat her with the respect she deserves. Many people look down on her and take her weaknesses as an advantage

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Purple is more than just a colour in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple”. The colour can be seen to be representative of a number of ideas: it is, “a colour suitable for queens” like Celie says; this means it is happiness; it is illuminating; it is freedom; it is pain and beauty. Because of its symbolism, the colour purple can be seen to have a significant influence on the characters’ growth throughout the novel and, therefore, is an appropriate title for the novel.The colour purple in the novel can

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The Color Purple is a novel written by Alice Walker. The novel is written in letter format. The main character, Celie, writes to God about her life. The story starts out with 14 year old Celie being raped by her Pa. Her Pa got her pregnant two times. Once her babies were born, Pa took them away. Celie let Pa rape and abuse her to protect her sister Nettie, who was a couple years younger than her. Celie and Nettie were very close and told each other everything. One day, Nettie started dating Mr. __

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The novel, The Color Purple, portrays a story about two sisters who communicate through various letters about their life while they are separated. In the end, they join together through their love and are finally reunited after thirty years. With the morals of race, gender, and life, the rating of this novel is excellent. As an African American woman in the Pre-civil rights time, Celie did not feel welcome or in place during her life in The United States. Women of color in this book were often victims

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the novel, Mel Watkins, a book editor and writer, also criticizes the choices of Alice Walker and other writers similar to her in his 1986 article “Sex, Racism, and Black Women Writers”. Because Watkins wrote the article a mere four years after The Color Purple’s release, Watkins’ belief that “black women writers who have chosen black men as a target have set themselves outside a tradition that is nearly as old as black American literature itself” is a direct window into the mindset of the people reading

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The Past Helps Shape a Better Future According to the Ark of Hope for Children, 1,850 children die a year by some form of child abuse. Assault must be noticed, especially because it affects so many people worldwide. The Color Purple by Alice Walker focuses extensively on this idea and the ramifications of rape. In the novel, the main protagonist Celie is compelled to live with a man named Mr. _____, whose last name is unidentified in the book, who constantly makes her work in the fields and clean

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