Essays on The Color Purple

Ali ConwellBlock: 3The Color purple was an entertaining novel about a young black girlstruggling to survive in a harsh world. Her name was Celie, and through outher life she was abused in many ways. If any one is competent andcourageous in this world it would be Celie. After her mother passed away, she had nothing…

“Harpo say, I love you, Squeak. He kneel down and try to put his arms round her waist. She stand up. My name Mary Agnes, she say. ”-This passage is from Celie’s forty-first letter. Squeak has just returned from an unsuccessful attempt to release Sofia from prison. The prison warden raped Squeak, and she returns…

In the book The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, Tashi is convinced that she doesn’t want to go to America because no one will like her. Tashi has her doubts but Adam convinces her to come. I am not here to analyze the motives of the character’s decision to go/not go to America, rather I…

The main theme this essay will be focusing on is the distinction between the “real” outcome of economic achievement as described in The Color Purple by the lynching of Celie’s father, and its “alternative” economic view presented at the end of the novel depicting Celie’s happiness and entrepreneurial success. We will attempt the task at…

A symbol of freedom and autonomy. individualism yet togetherness ; the American Flag has presented an image of America for decennaries. Ever since Francis Scott Key wrote his verse form about the “broad chevrons and bright stars. ” the United States of America has been marked with this simple. yet limpid icon of peace and…

Women, it seems, tend to consistently get the fuzzy end of the lollipop. Men sometimes feel the need to discriminate against women to feel like they have a sense of power. In Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple, the female characters are continually oppressed. From the very beginning of the novel, the main character, Celie,…

Is the story of a friendship between Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who are opposites in the way of relating to other people, to the world around them, and to themselves. Nel is rational and balanced; she gets married and gives in to conformity and the town’s expectations. Sula is an irrational and transient character….

Alice Walker has written of unfairness in many manners ; Celia ‘s battles with her hubby in The Color Purple ; Olivia ‘s unfairness of female Circumcision in Olivia ; and the Old Woman in The Welcome Table. Her unfairness was non simply racial but besides classist. The Old Woman is a reminder to the…

In the time period and region of the entry in which this novel is set, it was socially acceptable for the men to show the women who were boss through violent actions and condescending words. As a result, many women in that time period were abused, emotionally scarred, and injured. Through the oppression and discrimination…

In The Color Purple, Celie (the protagonist of the novel) writes letters to God in order to write out how she feels. She writes in her “diary” because she doesn’t really have anyone to talk to. Celie is a strong woman for putting up with everything that has happened to her, including being beat by…