The Color Purple. Letter. English as foreign language.
My name is *** ***. I am a high school student currently pursuing my *** in ***. Recently I had the opportunity to study your novel The Color Purple in my English course. I am delighted to say that this enthralling reading has had made a permanent impression on me.
I admire the fashion in which you vividly described the life of the African American girl Celie. The reader gets an insight into her life as well as the hardship and patriarchy she has to endure. Through Celie and other characters, you succeed in portraying a black American society, of that time, that appears very credible. In my opinion, this credibility is largely based upon the creation of down-to-earth characters. Reader can actually find themselves in the different characters and their individual flaws. Celie’s envy, for instance, when she tells her step son Harpo to beat his wife she obey him is a characteristic that I have definitely recognized in myself before. Some of the character traits seem so realistic that I could not but wonder whether you created them after peopl