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Dynamic Character In The Color Purple By Alice Walker

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The Color Purple, written by Alice Walker, is about a girl’s life in the early 1900s. It tells you how hard it was for African-American women during that time.The Color Purple is filled with dynamic characters. A dynamic character is a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, in their personality or attitude. The main character is Celie. She was raped by her stepfather and had two children, one boy and one girl. She thought he killed them. She hides her smile because her stepfather said that she had the ugliest smile. Her sister and her thought he was their real father. Celie married a man named Albert when she was a teenager. Albert had children from a previous marriage. Albert didn’t want Celie, he wanted her

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