Having A Voice In Alice Walker's Color Purple

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The Color Purple is about a young child who was forced to become a women right after her mother died. The main character,Celie, did not have a voice in being independent and if she tried to speak be beaten until she was silent. The theme is emphasising that everyone has a voice and that you shouldn’t be afraid to fight for it. “All my life I had to Fight” (Page 40). Sophia was telling Celie that it is not easy having a voice in the world. Sophia’s character implies in order for a woman to be heard she must fight for her place in society. She tells Celie this after her husband attacked her and she goes on saying that she never thought she would have to fight in her own home. Thirty percent of today’s women have been abused by their husbands