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…The Color Purple In the novel The Color Purple, by Alice Walker there are many references to the color purple. Purple is a very unique color especially in today’s society. It is the color generally associated with lesbianism, and was previously…

…The Color Purple The novel, The Color Purple, is an epistolary novel. In the letterforms, Alice Walker gives several ideas, such as, friendship, domination, courage & independence. She impacts readers by looking at the story through the eyes…

…The Color Purple: Directed by Steven Spielberg Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, The Color Purple, is an epic tale of a woman’s struggle to find equality, stability and freedom in a male dominated existence. Many of the issues which are written about…

…The Color Purple had many tragic scenes through out the story and hardships on the characters. Many terrible things happened to the characters of The Color Purple. The characters that were mostly impacted by terrible events and hardships were mostly…

…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…

…. The latter is the case in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. In this novel, Walker uses the influence of other strong female characters to act as catalysts on Celie’s journey of self-discovery. Inspired by Sophia, Celie is able to establish her independence from her…

…In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple Celie faces love obstacles in the beginning of the novel. eventually, she overpowers these obstructions and truimphs. One example of a love obstacle Celie faces that eventually ends…

…The Color Purple by Alice Walker is about the life and times of Celie. Celie is a woman who has had a hard life. At the age of 14 she is raped by the person she thinks is her father and bores two children for him. Pa, as Celie calls him, gives her…

…At the tender age of fifteen, Celie, the main character in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is raped by whom she knows as her Pa. Pa forces himself upon Celie and she gets “big” or pregnant, not once, but twice. When Pa takes the children away…

…Celie’s journey toward self-definition in The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, is filled with moments of growth as well as of tragedy and abuse. Throughout her life she is mistreated and put down. While bad things continue to happen to her, Celie’s…