... 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 ... that if women help one another they will be able from the long prevailing male oppression and liberate themselves is a great source of inspiration. Even though in today's world women are g...

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• Approx Pages: 3

... in her letters to God. One of the most effective consequences of the epistolary writing is the way in which we see how Celie is treated by others in her society and the effect it has on her. There are many issues of racism and sexism in the novel, both of which involve a power struggle. All the African American characters in the novel are affected by racism, however ... it seems that the men take their frustration out on the women as a result of this racism. Celie goes from being sexually abused by her father to marrying a man she doesn't love ... it once was.  Another consequence of ...

• Word Count: 977
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Color Purple is a contemporary, epistolary novel, set in the harsh, segregated world of the Deep South between the wars. Walker's use of letters or 'epistles' exchanged between characters, speaking to each other in an informal colloquial vocabulary, brings them to life and allows them to speak to each other directly. The author's irregular spelling contributes to this belief by emphasizing the characters' unique speech patterns, "Fonso, I ain't well...Naw I ain ... African American heritage. Walker's writings, she admits, came from her own sense of herself as 'ugly, deformed and unlovable...

• Word Count: 486
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate