Dear Pulitzer Judging Board‚ The book‚ The Color Purple by Alice Walker was superior. This book should have received the Pulitzer Prize because it contains some of the best elements‚ in which this book very unique. Some of the key elements that were featured is by the book being written in letters and or diary form by the protagonist‚ Celie‚ herself. Another key element of The Color Purple was Alice Walker’s way of connecting with the audience showing strong emotions and the struggles that Celie
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Friendship in The Color Purple Everyone is affected by certain events or individuals that greatly change your life. Friendship is a unique loyalty to one another‚ it has love and love is a sacrifice. In the powerful historical fiction novel The Color Purple‚ two sisters get separated but they pray to be reunited. Along the way both girl’s; Nettie and Celie go through tragedies that only God knows but Nettie shares with Celie in letters the rough and good times she goes through. The author Alice
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“You’d bet not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy” (Walker 1). These are the first words written in the novel which embody the struggle that the main character‚ Celie‚ withholds throughout the novel in trying to differentiate her surroundings as good or evil. At this instance‚ Celie had been raped by her own father and is being told by him to never tell anyone but God‚ especially her mother. From this point on‚ Celie begins to write letters only to God‚ pouring her soul into this only
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“You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy‚” Celie is told by her Pa. So that’s what she does in The Color Purple‚ she writes to God‚ in letters. She does this‚ not only because of the command‚ but also because she is unsure of how to deal with being the subject of rape and abuse. She doesn’t clearly know how to express herself‚ and her letters to God is the only thing that would listen to her anyway. As Celie grows older‚ she gains outside listeners that help her actualize God
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The Color Purple Shug writes Celie and tells her that she has a huge surprise for her‚ which happens to be a new husband‚ Grady. Celie is not fond of Grady because she feels like he just married to Shug for her money. Celie has not yet told her friend how she feels because she is afraid of hurting her feelings. Shug brings him over to celebrate Christmas with all of them. During Christmas‚ Grady and Mr. _____ drink while Celie and Shug spend some much needed time together. Shug tells Celie how
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LadarreunTaylor English 131 FEB 25 The Color Purple The Color Purple’ is the reverberation of the slavery time. The African-American thinker and writer Gloria Watkins points out that ‘The Color Purple’ is a imitation of the custom of the ‘slave narrative’ Sections written by male and female former slaves about their skills under slavery. Some slave narratives were collected among previous slaves in the 1930s by the Works Progress Direction‚
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The theme of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is very straightforward and simple. Like many other novels devoted to the mistreatment of blacks and black women especially‚ The Color Purple is dedicated to black women’s rights. Much of the narrative in Walker’s novel is derived from her own personal experience‚ growing up in the rural South as an uneducated and abused child. In short‚ the goal of this book and indeed all her writing is to inspire and motivate black women to stand up for their rights
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Overcoming Prejudices for Self Acceptance Throughout Alice Walker’s novel‚ The Color Purple‚ the main character‚ Celie‚ reveals all of the hardships she has endured during her life. Celie confides in her younger sister‚ Nettie‚ and God to express the way she feels in certain situations. As the story progresses‚ Celie eventually finds her voice and breaks away from all the men who oppressed her during her life. For the duration of the novel‚ prejudice becomes a reoccurring theme. Not only does
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her work‚ The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker has been a prominent figure in both the African American and American community. Born on February 9‚ 1933 in Putnam County‚ Georgia‚ Walker‚ in many of her pieces‚ covers the telling experience during the Jim Crow Era. As the youngest of eight‚ family had been a major factor in her life. Her parents‚ Minnie Tallulah Grant and Willie Lee Walker were very hardworking people who tried their best to provide their children with a sense of pride and responsibility
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Full Synopsis Cast & CrewAwardsRelated MoviesBased on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker‚ The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949‚ relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg)‚ a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband‚ sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her innermost thoughts in letter form to her sister Nettie (Akousa Busia)‚ but Albert has been hiding the letters Nettie writes back‚ allowing Celie to assume that
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