A Comparison of Alice Walker and Celie from The Color Purple In Alice Walker's The Color Purple, there are many similarities between the main character, Celie, and Alice Walker. Some examples are both are from poor black families from the south, both have issues with their appearance, and both have bi-sexual tendencies. There are some differences between the two also, such as, in The Color Purple, Celie does not have any positive male figures in …
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…her brother paid to have it removed when she was 14. Some self-esteem must have returned because when she graduated high school she was the valedictorian and prom queen. (Grade Saver) Some people say that you can tell the life of a writer by reading their stories. I think it was very evident in The Color Purple the kind of life that Alice Walker knew. In a sense, Celie and Alice were one in the same