... one are not just made up from the imagination. It is experienced somehow and the confessions are drawn out on the pages. Alice Walker felt what Celie felt, maybe not exactly, but she did. The title, The Color Purple has a very big significance in the book. The title comes from when Celie and her younger sister Nettie are walking through a meadow. The flowers in the meadow were purple. Nettie and Celie were ... sister as if she was her mother. But really Celie went to Nettie as a confidant, her friend. In relationship to this section of the novel Alice Walker is similar to Celie. Not tha...

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... to purple". So why would I choose the book, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, to illustrate my views on the "feminist approach" to literary theory? I believe The Color Purple to be the most complex, real and truthful novel I have ever read. Walker does not hide the harsh realities that Black woman had to, ... or still have to suffer. However, not only did Walker apply the feminist approach to literary theory, she also managed to use the common sense approach. The ... do. But I"ll kill him dead before I let him beat me" (p. 38). Those few lines manages to sum up the point that Alice Walke...

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