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Author: Alice Walker
Language: English
Genre: Novel
About the Author
Alice Walker is especially known for novels, poems, and short stories that offer great insight into African American culture and often focus on women. For the novel The Color Purple (1982), she became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Walker's creative vision is rooted in the economic hardship, racial terror, and folk wisdom of African American life and culture, particularly in the rural South. Her writing explores multidimensional kinships among women and embraces the redemptive power of social and political revolution. Walker took down testimonies of sharecroppers facing eviction while writing poetry and fiction as well.
This feeling ultimately compelled her to write “The Color Purple,” which sold 5 million copies and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1983. She has described the experience of writing as waiting for her characters to make themselves 'known to her', implying that she regards herself in some way as a spiritual medium rather than a literary author. Walker's characters live in her mind before she writes them into life on the page.
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker has been banned in schools all over the country since 1984, due to its graphic sexual content and situations of violence and abuse. Walker introduced the themes of gender and racial inequality that she would continue to explore throughout her career with her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland.
Review
Throughout The Color Purple, Walker portrays female friendships as a means for women to summon the courage to tell stories. In turn, these stories allow women to resist oppression and dominance. Relationships among women form a refuge, providing reciprocal love in a world filled with male violence.
Review
Throughout The Color Purple, Walker portrays female friendships as a means for women to summon the courage to tell stories. In turn, these stories allow women to resist oppression and dominance. Relationships among women form a refuge, providing reciprocal love in a world filled with male violence.
The tone is very confessional and uninhibited, as Celie's letters to God are private, much like journal entries. setting (time)1910–1940. Though The Color Purple is a historical novel, it never refers to any factual events. Though written for adults, The Color Purple is sometimes included on high school reading lists for ages 16 and up. In The Color Purple, characters who wish to protect others from harm make clothes for them.
Clothes become a symbol of protection because the making of clothes is an act of support from one to another. Thematic Connection: The theme of "The Color Purple," is to always stay strong and keep fighting. At the beginning of the story, Celie got separated from her sister, Nettie, the person she loved the most but she stayed strong and waited patiently to get a letter from her sister.
In this book, Sexual relations between men and women in The Color Purple is a major theme. Alice Walker sets her story of Celie's transformation from a passive female to an independent woman within the culture of southern black rural society from the 1920s to the 1940s.
The color purple represents all the good things in the world that God creates for men and women to enjoy. ... Shug says that God does little things for people, like creating the color purple, just to make people happy and give them pleasure in their lives. God wants people to notice the beauty of his/her creation. The Color Purple is a work of fiction, and it is not based on a particular true story.
However, in examining Walker's notes and journals, scholar Salamishah Tillet, author of In Search of the Color Purple, learned that the character of Celie is based loosely on Alice Walker's step-grandmother, Rachel. Being blended to purple represented the God-Man who, by his death, became the Door, our only access to the Father.
Purple is associated with spirituality, the sacred, higher self, passion, third eye, fulfillment, and vitality. Purple helps align oneself with the whole of the universe, The color purple is imbued with different symbolic meanings in several religions. In Catholicism, purple is closely associated with Advent and Lent and carries connotations of royalty going back to the sovereignty of Christ.
In Buddhism, purple symbolizes mysticism, and Hindus associate purple with peace. Taking all aspects of purple's past and present into consideration, purple symbolizes magic, mystery, spirituality, the subconscious, creativity, dignity, royalty – and it evokes all of these meanings more so than any other color. Purple is obtained by mixing red (flesh) and blue (Word of God).
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The resultant color meaning in the Bible is royalty or priesthood. it's not just about a struggle of women, struggle for her identity, but above that, it's about winning that struggle. The heroine, well, is not only Celie here, who never had a life of her own rather her life has been owned initially by her father, who mutilate her, both physically and mentally, and further by her husband where again she is an object, who have to act as per his will, and above that, is not allowed to react.
The moment she takes her first step in the direction of her retaliation is the moment you will take it as your own retaliation, that's how it will connect you to its characters. Well, the moment when Celie's father gives Shug, a tag of dirty women, Celie spits in the glass of water she offers him.
Why you should buy this book?
A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other.
The moment she takes her first step in the direction of her retaliation is the moment you will take it as your own retaliation, that's how it will connect you to its characters. Well, the moment when Celie's father gives Shug, a tag of dirty women, Celie spits in the glass of water she offers him.
Why you should buy this book?
A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other.
Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book. The color purple represents all the good things in the world that God creates for men and women to enjoy. At the beginning of the book, you could say that Celie has no sense of the color purple.
Rating for this book:- 4.5/5
Rating for this book:- 4.5/5
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