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…The book The Color Purple was written by Alice Walker. The book was not written in a conventional manner. It was a series of letters spanning the life of Celie, the main character. Most of the letters were written by Celie and some by her sister…

…, in order to show our status. I think it's very trivial, but according to the text in "The Color Purple", it creates many issues that can be analyzed. The main issue Alice Walker is getting at is how different family structures can build equally strong bonds. I…

…In the novel, The Color Purple, written by Alice Walker, the main character Celie begins the book by writing letters addressed to God. Celie used to write to God to express her every thought, question, and/or idea. Because of the hard life that Celie…

…The Color Purple By Alice Walker And Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger Alice Walker and J.D Salinger demonstrate how faith helps their main characters to discover their true potential. Both authors use their novels to show the readers how faith…

…Gender roles play a very important role throughout “the Color Purple.” Each character in this book are very different from each other. They guide one another through life and help each other figure out who they really are. Sophia and Shug both…

…In The Color Purple, Alice Walker tells the story of Celie, a young black girl growing up in Georgia. In a series of letters to God and her sister Nettie, Celie tells the story of her life ranging from the trauma of sexual abuse as a child to her true…

…"The Color Purple" is a contemporary, epistolary novel by Alice Walker, which is about the life of Celie, a black woman growing up in the South. Walker's use of letters or 'epistles' exchanged between characters, speaking to each other in an informal…

…and submission are the easy way out. Life requires something deep within the human heart to bring out the ability to fight. In The Color Purple, Alice Walker uses a weak, battered individual named Celie to represent what it takes to fight, to live, and to be free…

…The Color Purple – Celie’s Journey The Color Purple is the story of a poor black woman living in the south between World War 1 and World War 2. This was at a time when, although slavery had ended, many women were still virtually in bondage, and had…

…being abused. Sadly, sometimes society ignores that aspect. Luckily, literature differs from other mediums in that it can express thoughts and emotional more effectively. Alice Walker's The Color Purple and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury depict…