Category: Alice Walker

The Color Purple by Alice Walker details sisters Nettie and Celie as they are faced with challenges finding who they are in the world. Primarily focused on protagonist, Celie, the novel is structured through a series of letters that Celie has written to God. Being raised in the southern state of Georgia, Nettie, and Celie…

Many people may not have heard of Alice Walker. She was a writer who wrote several books during the revolutionary era, inspiring many women to take the lead in their own lives. Alice Walker had a significant impact on the revolutionary era. She employed a lot of her personal experiences in her books, most notably,…

In “The Color Purple,” Alice Walker depicts the continuous, violent struggle for African American women’s rights. She effectively uses descriptive language, a sentimental tone, and Sally’s lack of an innocent childhood. Walker portrays the character Celie as someone who constantly struggles to stand up for herself. Celie is continuously faced with dangers and exploited by…

The overall structure of this novel comes in the form of multiple written letters. As critic Marc Christophe puts it, “The story unfolds through the many letters that the lonely and despairing Celie writes to God and later to her sister Nettie, who is a missionary in Africa” (Christoph, 280). When in the perspective of…

“There are two sides to every story and in my interpretation of the great novel, The Color Purple, one can see that although critics may claim it is not valuable, I find this work to be extremely important. After reading, The Color Purple, it is easy to prove how incorrect I.M. Dence happens to be.…

Alice Walker’s 1982 epistolary novel, The Color Purple, is an unsettling, yet triumphant representation of the the cultural, intellectual, and emotional impact of oppression and strength in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. The degree to which this novel has impacted my overall understanding of women, oppression, gender, and deeply-rooted historical ideals is unmatched by any other…

Royalty, nobility, luxury, and ambition are all commonly associated with the color purple. Could this possibly be a reason why author Alice Walker decided to title her Pulitzer Prize-winning book after it? No matter why the book is titled what it is, The Color Purple by Alice Walker is one of the most critically acclaimed…

Written in the 1970’s The Blooms is set in the significant south of America and is about Myop, a little 10-year old African American young woman who examines the grounds in which she lives. Walker explores how Myop reacts in different conditions. She forms from a third-individual perspective of Myop’s examination. In the underlying two…

Alice Walker’s magnum opus, “The Color Purple,” stands as an emblematic tome of American literature, etching an indelible imprint on the consciousness of readers and critics alike since its inception in 1982. Garnering both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel plumbs the depths of the African American female experience in the…

Walker opens her well known paper with an epigraph from the melody that additionally gives its title. “Ain’t these tears in these eyes tellin’ you?” asked Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, who protected the tune in 1929, just as each craftsman who performed “Am I Blue?” consistently, including African American jazz legends Ethel Waters and…