“I’m poor, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everyone listening. But I’m here.” Alice Walker is the author of the book The Color Purple, she is an active member of the Civil Rights Movement, who fights for freedom and equality for African-Americans. Also she’s part of the Woman’s Rights Activist, who fights for the same rights as man. When she was little, she was injured on her right eye that left a visible mark on her face and she became self-conscious. She thought she was ugly and withdrew herself from the world. The Color Purple is about a young African American girl name Celie who writes to God about her troubles and life in general. She writes to God like how she would write a close friend. God has always been her only friend since she is completely isolated and abandoned by society. She writes to him expressing herself and asks questions why certain things happened in her and what did she ever do to receive it. Celie is a naïve young girl, who gets sexually abused from her father, …show more content…
At young age, she becomes a mom through incest and loses the kid because her dad sold her baby. She wants to tell her mom everything that has been happening, but her dad threatened her countless of times. She had no choice since she couldn’t tell anyone so she wrote to God. Her letters weren’t prayers, but conversations to God about her life and obstacles she faced. She is constantly abused, so slowly as time passes, she isolates herself. Her life has been controlled by her father and was forced to marry the guy her sister was going to marry. The marriage added to her burdens and her husband was violent who beats her up. Also duties and responsibility were added to her daily life when she married Mr., which isolated her more. Her marriage took control of her life and it completely ruined her life, but changes were about to