Rhetorical Devices In The Color Purple

The tones that are being portrayed in this novel are sadness, desperation and agony in the life of the woman’s characters. For example, when Corrine’s death comes to an end as everyone in her family including Nettie is in grieve as it states, “She taught me so much! I know I will miss her always”, (pg.196). When this situation happens, life starts getting complicated for Nettie as she has to not only help teach the Olinka children in Africa; she also has to confront the situation of maintaining her life stable and go find her sister once again. Another situation that relates to this is when Tachi had to go to do a ritual to celebrate womanhood through pain as Nettie’s refers to her own experience as she states, “Do you remember how scared I

Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved “, captures the essence of the story and the style for the African American people want to be known and be happy that they are alive. Another quote, “Time moves slowly, but passes quickly”, as Celie is waiting for her sister Nettie to come back many situations happen that each of them go through. It feels like eternity at that moment but time already passes by from the time they were experiencing one event from another. “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it”, this quote explains that when the person enters in a life of pain, it is hard to deal with and as time passes the person doesn’t do anything about it to change the way they are living. “I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with”, this embedded quote makes the assumption that we humans look take in perspective of the world around us and want to explore and be who we want to be but we are ignorant to take action and figure them out ourselves for the answers are right in out paths. “A grown child is a dangerous thing”, in the novel discrimination is taken action in the time period of the book. What this quote is mentioning is that when they are born and grow, they are going to be affected

I also learned that not only women were oppressed during the time period of African Americans living as slaves but also men as well. As Celie is writing to God not only does she write to him in order to know what’s going on with her but she also writes to those letters to figure out who she is as she has experienced abuse from her father and Mr. ______. In the book, “Modern Critical Interpretations The Color Purple”, I learned that this novel was also used toward the fight for feminism not only for the colored people but also for the white women for everyone are considered a women who were female to gain the equality for them as well as men. (pg.137). I also learned that Walker compares the women to the color purple than to lavender for there is a difference in depth and intensity of it which she is referring to the races of women nationally (pg.136). On page 116, as Walker was writing this novel, it demonstrated the commitment she had to figure out a way to change the aspects of society as a different view toward women and social equality making it a