“The Color Purple” has a lot of dynamic characters in it, which makes it perfect for an assignment like this. The book was written by Alice Walker. A dynamic character is a character that changes from the beginning of the story, to the end. Examples of dynamic characters are often the villain who chooses to be humble at the end. In some way every character changes, even if it is just a little.
Albert is a very dynamic character. In the beginning of the story he’s a bad man, but he slightly humbles up by the end. He was very abusive to Celie and her sister, but by the end he chose to be a nicer man. In the beginning he was in love with Shug Avery and i’m not sure if he ever stopped loving her, but he did step away and let her live her own life. Albert’s abuse was not just limited to physical violence, he also mentally, verbally, and sexually abused Celie. When he is first introduced into the story he seemed like a nice enough man, but his true intentions unravel by a little less than midway through the story. I’m really surprised that Celie didn’t kill him early on in the story.
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She had a pretty chaotic family, especially between her, her stepfather, and her real father. In the beginning of the story Celie is illiterate and very quiet, but through the years she started break out of that. Due to the abuse from Albert and her stepfather Celie was very self conscious. What really drew Celie out from the other characters was her emotions, you can know exactly how she feels even without her saying anything. Celie started to stand up and defy her abusers about midway through the story when she was an adult. Shug really helped her stand up and gain her