Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple to capture and illuminate the hardship and bitterness African American women had to face in the early 1900s. Walker's story is filled with very powerful and emotional experiences such as rape, physical abuse and verbal abuse, prejudice, the oppression of women, and hatred. The truth about men and women, blacks, and whites, love and perseverance are revealed by Walker's saga. Through the epistle format, Walker demonstrates the transformation of a mentally ... , the movie is not the book" ("The Color Purple: The Book and the Movie"). Walker is right, movies...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6

Alice Walker takes on a feminist tone in The Color Purple, a novel about the struggles between salvation and independence in which she discusses the oppression of black women. Through the relationship between black men and black women, Walker portrays the prejudice that black women have to face. She paints this inferior female image and only through the sisterhood of women can the inferior female characters find freedom. Celie, the voice of the novel, is ... continually oppressed throughout the novel. She is condemned to a life of drudgery because she is so ugly, poor, black, and a woman. She...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School