Purple Essays

Celie's Letters to God “Dear God, I am fourteen years old. I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.” In the critically acclaimed film, “ The Color Purple,” in Celie's early life, she is going through a lot physically and mentally. Celie has been abused by her so called “father” and conceives two children that are taken right out of her hands. Alice Walker uses the protagonist, character Celie to express what is taking place in her life

Devon Adams Professor Blakely Film Appreciation Film Review #1: The Color Purple The Color Purple is the story of Celie Johnson, and African-American woman struggling to overcome poverty, abuse, and sexism in the early 1900s. At 14 years old, Celie gives birth to her second child after she is molested by her father. Her father takes the child from her and is told to never speak of it again. Nettie, Celie’s younger sister, is set to marry Mister, a local farmer. Her father refuses to let Nettie marry

unattractive portrayal of the novel’s central themes. Despite the novel’s central, symbolic motif being the colour purple; the colour is only incorporated in the cover’s text, through the typography and typeface. This is arguably not emphasised enough when taking into consideration the significance of the colour within the novel. Whereas, in my redesign using the InDesign program, I used the colour purple almost exclusively. This is due to the critical negatives I observed in the original cover’s first edition

The Color Purple takes place around the 20th century in rural Georgia, 30 years before World War II. Walker’s literary works display the ways in which both women are objectified and treated unequally by men within their lives. According to Lauren Berlant in Modern Critical Interpretations of The Color Purple, Walker creates The Color Purple as a way to represent historical events. “The taking of lands, or the births, battles and deaths of Great Women” with the scene of “one woman asking another for

American language for the time period since she is also almost illiterate this gives the novel a sense of accuracy for Georgia in the early 1900’s. Throughout the novel, we see a shift from a classic heroic figure who is usually a man but in The Color Purple, we see how these heroic men are seen as the villain which oppress the women who through this oppression fight back in order to find a better life than the one they have been given. An example of this oppression is how Celie is being beaten and raped

Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, follows the life of an oppressed and abused woman as she faces the hardships of being black and uneducated in the early 1900’s. Written in 1982 and adapted for film in 1985, this novel and movie work to spread the reality of racism, sexism and the oppression of black women during the 20th century. Critics of this movie are polarized in their opinions, believing that the film is either a feminist masterpiece or a racial disaster. Steven Spielberg was a controversial

The Color Purple The title of the book The Color Purple by Alice Walker has a bigger meaning than it may seem. The title explains the way Celie, the main character, starts to view the things God does. This book shows that no matter how low and miserable a person’s life seems, with the push of a loved one and a lot of hard work, anyone can turn their life around. It also shows everything happens for a reason. The author is trying to explain how a person should not give up on themselves because of

The Color Purple by Alice Walker includes various ways of creating a developing character in this story. Through Celie’s changing character, Celie also changes from an isolated person to becoming more of more of a person who wants to get included with her society. Celie has many troubles of being isolated in her life and is afraid if she tries to share her thoughts. This all tails back to the fact that Alice wants to show that Celie drives to reach her goal of going from writing to God, to someone

A moving inspirational novel told in letters to portray how life was for African Americans, and especially women is The Color Purple. It is not about purple in no way at all; it is actually a difficult book to tackle, dealing with rape insest, explicit sex, sexism, and violence toward women and a lesbian relationship. Not only does it speak of women, but it tells of how there was a negative depiction of African American men during this time. The novel consists of letters written by the main protagonist

In the beginning of the novel, The Color Purple, one of the consequences for being a black woman was being seen as a prey. Instead of being seen as her mother’s daughter, Celie was seen as an easy target. Her stepfather had much interest in her, and he took action with his interest. He constantly abused, and raped Celie. To the point that Celie became pregnant two times while living with her stepfather. Celie became powerless, and her emotions were no more. She became a black helpless woman thanks

Many novels portray the life of an African American woman throughout history. However, the most criticized and blessed novel is Alice Walkers “The Color Purple” because of its vivid detail of African American male stereotypes. Especially in the recreated film of the novel in 1985. Furthermore, the explicit details of rape, marriage abuse, homosexuality, incest, and the portrayed image of God throughout the novel would not be overlooked by readers. Alice Walker explored the universal theme of the

The first issue that impacted Celie was a historical concern. This issue was racism. According to the book, The Color Purple, “Just then the come by. All these children, say the mayor’s wife, digging in her pocketbook. Cute as little buttons though, she say… Sofia and the prizefighter don’t say nothing … All your children so clean, she say, would you like to work for me, be my maid?” (Walker, 85). Although this incident did not happen to Celie directly, it happened to her stepson’s ex-wife, Sofia

In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's book, Purple Hibiscus, Adiche shows the effects of colonialism in a patriarchal society. This book was set in the 1990s from the perspective of 15-year old Kambili Achike. She lives as part of the Igbo tribe in colonialist Nigeria. Kambili lives with her abusive father, Eugene, submissive mother, Beatrice, and headstrong brother, Jaja. Throughout the book, we meet her Aunt Ifeoma, who is the mother of Amaka, Obiora and Chima. Kambili's grandfather, Papa Nnukwu does

Knowledge Title The color purple according to Shug, is a color that God created in order to make his creations happy; but for Celie who’s never noticed the flowers, purple are the bruises in her skin after being beat or the sense of pride that she never believed in. Alice Walker was discovering religion at the time of this book, she believed that the color purple held both of these meanings. “If it is true that we run from that chases us, then The Color Purple (this color that is always a surprise

The importance of female relationships in standing up against oppression and abuse within the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. In the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker the reader is immediately introduced to the harsh reality of the protagonists’ life through the very first sentence, “You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy.” (p.1). From that point onwards the narrative follows young Celie from she raped and abused by the man she believes to be her father to becoming

Alice Walker’s ‘The Color Purple’ is set in Georgia and a remote African village during the 1920-1930’s as it was during this time that the blacks were heavily discriminated. Black women we constantly beaten, raped, and were victims of all sorts of abuse. Through this novel the author tries to show forth the living conditions and the treatments of the Negro community before the civil rights movement. This novel portraits the African Americans in rural America as victims of racism and sexism and it

In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, the main character Celie is a women in the early twentieth century, this was not a simple task, especially for a women of color. She has dealt with rape, postpartum depression, suppression, silence, loss, and much more. Her life was a difficult one, if it could even be called a life in the first place. To have life is to know self, and Celie does not discover who she could be until the end, therefore, she is not truly living until more than half her life has passed

society as a whole has augmented into the idea of gender roles. Women are limited as to what they can do outside of their household. However, the advancement does not remove the damage. This topic baffles many due to previous notions. In The Color Purple, Celie is someone who struggles through this. She is unable to do anything other than serve as an object. She suffers through a lot of pain that causes her to lose sense of her feelings. Not only does this malign her, but also generations to come

The Greek dramatist Sophocles states, “When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.” This quote recounts Kambili journey, the main character in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Purple Hibiscus. This tragic novel tells the life of a teenage girl who comes to understand herself and her surroundings. As Kambili starts to grasp reality, she becomes more observant to those around her- the difference between pain and happiness, and who causes it. Eguene Achike, Kambili’s

In Chimamanda Adichie’s powerful and thought provoking novel Purple Hibiscus, Kambili, the daughter of a wealthy, and heavily religious Nigerian businessman narrates a story of injustice and religious corruption from the eyes of an isolated and abused child. Through this striking and unbiased point of view, Adichie is able to highlight the many aspects of each character, none of which are two dimensional or without controversy. While furthermore addressing heavy themes made more meaningful by their