The Color Purple Research Paper

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The Color Purple was published in 1982, written by Alice Walker. Alice grew up and lived in Eatonton, Georgia and worked as a social worker, teacher, lecturer, and took part in the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Alice decided to write this novel to describe the struggles of three generations of Georgia sharecroppers. This novel sold more than 5 million copies and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1983. (“Alice Walker”) This audience was meant to reach out to a mature audience that can handle and maybe relate to Celie’s life. (Edemariam, Aida.) Alice Walker is familiar with the subjects in her book because she grew up as the eighth child in a family of sharecroppers and grew up in segregated Eatonton. The author seems to be