The Color Purple Passage Analysis Essay
Maya Kennedy
10/24/14
English AP
The Color Purple by:Alice Walker Genre:
● Epistolary novel, confessional novel
Historical Text:
● By this time in history slavery was long outlawed but its effects were still felt heavily by those African Americans still living in the southern United States.
Segregation was imposed strictly, and entire black populations lived “isolated from white society”. They “had to sit in separate parts of movie houses, drink out of separate fountains, and could not eat at white lunch counters”. Even churches were segregated. The jobs that most African Americans held were as sharecroppers, working on large farms that were still owned by the families that had used slave labor decades before.
Protagonist: …show more content…
I may have got somethin in my eye but i didn't wink. I Don't even look at men. Thats the truth I look at women, tho cause im not scared of them… Sometime pa still be looking at Nettie, but i always git his light. Now i tell her to marry Mr.___. I Don't tell her why. I say marry him, Nettie and try to have one good year out of your life. After that, i know she be big, but me never again.
A girl at church say you git big if you bleed every month, i don`t bleed no more.” (page
6)
This passage is important because Celie just so casually mentions that her Pa beats her for doing something so simple and for the something she didn't even do. This Is a common occurrence in the story. She also mentions that she doesn't look at men, which is reflected in the book when she falls in love with Shug Avery. Celie thinks men are frogs and hse is not interested in them. It is also extremely important that she points out the bleeding. Celie can no longer have children and she realizes this there. Celie wants Nettie to marry Mr___ because she doesn't want her to end up the way she has live the life she has had to …show more content…
__’s development is not the subject of the novel, he undergoes just as significant a transformation as Celie does. Mr. ____ initially treats Celie as no more than an object. He beats her like an animal and shows no human connection, even during sex. He also hides Nettie’s letters to Celie from Celie for years.Mr. _____’s harsh treatment of Celie spurs her development. Celie’s discovery of Nettie’s letters begins her first experience with raw anger, which culminates in her angry denunciation of Mr.
____ in front of the others at dinner. Celie’s newfound confidence, instilled in her by
Shug, inspires her to react assertively and forcefully to Mr. ___’s abuse.When Celie returns from Tennessee, she finds that Mr. ____ has reevaluated his life and attempted to correct his earlier wrongs. Mr. ____ finally listens to Celie, and the two come to enjoy conversing and sewing together. Mr. ____ eventually expresses his wish to have an equal and mutually respectful marriage with Celie, but she declines.
Overview
It was a beautiful story that made you want to cry, laugh and smile along with the characters. Well put together plot line, the characters were people you could really
10/24/14
English AP
The Color Purple by:Alice Walker Genre:
● Epistolary novel, confessional novel
Historical Text:
● By this time in history slavery was long outlawed but its effects were still felt heavily by those African Americans still living in the southern United States.
Segregation was imposed strictly, and entire black populations lived “isolated from white society”. They “had to sit in separate parts of movie houses, drink out of separate fountains, and could not eat at white lunch counters”. Even churches were segregated. The jobs that most African Americans held were as sharecroppers, working on large farms that were still owned by the families that had used slave labor decades before.
Protagonist: …show more content…
I may have got somethin in my eye but i didn't wink. I Don't even look at men. Thats the truth I look at women, tho cause im not scared of them… Sometime pa still be looking at Nettie, but i always git his light. Now i tell her to marry Mr.___. I Don't tell her why. I say marry him, Nettie and try to have one good year out of your life. After that, i know she be big, but me never again.
A girl at church say you git big if you bleed every month, i don`t bleed no more.” (page
6)
This passage is important because Celie just so casually mentions that her Pa beats her for doing something so simple and for the something she didn't even do. This Is a common occurrence in the story. She also mentions that she doesn't look at men, which is reflected in the book when she falls in love with Shug Avery. Celie thinks men are frogs and hse is not interested in them. It is also extremely important that she points out the bleeding. Celie can no longer have children and she realizes this there. Celie wants Nettie to marry Mr___ because she doesn't want her to end up the way she has live the life she has had to …show more content…
__’s development is not the subject of the novel, he undergoes just as significant a transformation as Celie does. Mr. ____ initially treats Celie as no more than an object. He beats her like an animal and shows no human connection, even during sex. He also hides Nettie’s letters to Celie from Celie for years.Mr. _____’s harsh treatment of Celie spurs her development. Celie’s discovery of Nettie’s letters begins her first experience with raw anger, which culminates in her angry denunciation of Mr.
____ in front of the others at dinner. Celie’s newfound confidence, instilled in her by
Shug, inspires her to react assertively and forcefully to Mr. ___’s abuse.When Celie returns from Tennessee, she finds that Mr. ____ has reevaluated his life and attempted to correct his earlier wrongs. Mr. ____ finally listens to Celie, and the two come to enjoy conversing and sewing together. Mr. ____ eventually expresses his wish to have an equal and mutually respectful marriage with Celie, but she declines.
Overview
It was a beautiful story that made you want to cry, laugh and smile along with the characters. Well put together plot line, the characters were people you could really