A Rich Color, the Color PurpleEssay Preview: A Rich Color, the Color PurpleReport this essayA Rich Color, The Color Purple 11/23/2005The Color Purple is a classic literature novel about a young girl named Celie, her painful childhood and her joyful life after Shug Avery brings a little luck to her. When Celie was fourteen Alphonso the man she believed to be her father raped her, her mother died and she got pregnant twice. Both times, Alphonso took the children to Monticello and sold them to a rich man, Samuel and his wife Corrine. Celies sister Nettie ran away from home after Celie was married to Mr._____, soon he threw her out and she went to live with Samuel and Corrine. Nettie soon found that their children Olivia and Adam were Celies children and wrote her to tell her. Later the children, Nettie, Samuel and his wife left to Africa to be missionaries and Corrine died. This is when Samuel and Nettie got married. Shug and Celie left Mr._____ to go to Tennessee and live in Shugs big pink house. Alphonso died and left his house to Celie and Nettie, and the girls found out Alphonso was their step dad and their real father was lynched before they were born. In the end, Nettie, Samuel and the children were reunited with Celie and Shug.
Alice Walker uses first person point of view to create an extreme emotional impact for the audience. Celies perspective of the events in the novel helps to create empathy from the readers and helps them identify with some of the trials in the story. When reading The Color Purple, the journals create a personal feeling drawing you in to the story and making you feel as if you were actually there.
Personally I thought The Color Purple was a accurate account of the isolation between blacks and whites and tragedy of a womans life. Alice Walker balances joy and pain perfectly so that her novel is neither a Tragedy or a Romance. My personal favorite section of the story was Shugs thoughts of the color purple. She tells Celie “it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and dont notice it.”(203) I appreciate her belief that God doesnt want to be worshiped he wants the things he makes to be worshiped. I think it makes her sound more realistic that she has her own personal beliefs on religion. I would agree that The Color Purple is an outstanding, deeply American novel.
[quote=Celie”p>I’m going to say something about Celie before we go any further.I am of the opinion that it’s one of the best novels of the decade, especially if it’s based on the early 80s. While writing this I wanted to make sure that the characters were as close to the character in each section as possible, as opposed to being too complex to be done with just for one section. I want The Color Purple a reader who will enjoy the dark and brutal aspects of the lives of men and women, yet be fully engaged at the very end. I don’t mean you just need to sit there reading as much as you like but you need to write so close to the character that the reader is actually following through. This is for a character that hasn’t played up the importance of an inimitable character yet in a story whose value is clear.I was not trying to do too much writing, they do what they have to get done! It’s the role playing of them with the author, as each character has to show their worth and have the opportunity to say the wrong thing. As a result, most of the action and all of the moments when Celie does it are at the detriment of her character because they were played for laughs, but these can often be taken for granted in the present tense.A few lines about the two different chapters in This is the Last Time I Dreamt about Celie, but Celie goes to a very dark place. In the novel she has no idea that the world she’s in has a lot more to do with her and the world she’s just trying to live in than she does. The first chapter is full of dark imagery that just didn’t exist in the way she thought it should be.In the second chapter we see her get trapped and having no sense of whether her world will change or not. Now she’s in a very scary land and it can get very frightening. But while in the other dark land we haven’t seen her, she has this wonderful sense of adventure. What does it mean for Celie to travel alone in this world? It means she’s not going to just walk down a road and die. She’s going to be walking for it. I read this for the first time and my feelings as to why it has been so popular amongst me. When you’ve got a book like this to get you thinking of an older Harry Potter (I think) then she’s not going to get what it means. When she gets that in mind it’s hard to avoid the question because a lot of the decisions in books have to do with emotional tension and all that in and outside of that I’d say that’s probably the main factor