The Color Purple By Alice Walker The Color Purple is a story that is told openly and sincerely by a black woman named Celie. Throughout the course of the story, we are shown Celie's struggle to find herself, love, confidence, independence, and the courage to fight and fend for herself. The novel is written in first person by Celie through letters that she wrote to both God and her sister Nettie, as well as letters …
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…actuality is not. We watch a girl's struggle through racism, sexism, and anguish from being cut off from life and family, to becoming a self-confident, happy, independent, and strong woman. Through her strife we not only perceive her inner world, but everything around her, all gathered by her intuitive sense. The Color Purple is a story with various meanings, but most of all it is all that comes from the strength and endurance of love.