Essay - The Color Purple This Book by Alice Walker is a...

The Color Purple

***** book by Alice Walker is a very intense, poign*****nt and critical look at the life of a poor black woman in ***** twentieth century. It shows all the hard ***** difficult situations that a ***** black woman faces in the course ***** her life. The book criticizes the way these women were treated in the early part of the twentieth century and how these women should try to rega***** the confidence that they have lost. In "The Color Purple" she describes the life of Celie and how ***** matures in***** a woman ***** great confidence ***** strength with *****credible determination to fight back and achieve her desires and be able to live with the people ***** she loves.

In the beginning we meet Celie in her poor surroundings with many children, a very sick mot***** and an abusive father. ***** is abused ***** beaten by her fat***** and is shown to be carrying her second child by him. The novel does not tell everything about any of the characters and is written in a series of letters by Celie to God. She writes to God bec*****use she believes that she can only tell him about what ***** is feeling, as there is no one whom she feels ***** her. And ***** ***** that God ***** the only one who will understand her. She knows that her younger sister loves ***** but she is too young to understand her pain and suffering.

The general theme of the book is the self-destruction of the ***** community ***** oppressing their weak women in the period where they ***** have united aga*****st the overall practice of d*****crimination ***** the white population. The characters are all black women who have been oppressed by the males in their family as well as ***** husbands. ***** men of the family have to deal with oppression of the whites in ***** society and when ***** return to their homes they in turn abuse their women physically, mentally, verbally and spiritually. The men do not consider that their homes ***** a *****n for them from *****ll outside influences and they can relax ***** let go of the feelings of frustration and inadequacy ***** they feel but it turns out to be the oppos*****e and they exercise their control ***** behaving in this way towards the women.

The ma***** character is Celie and in the beg*****ning ***** is ***** ***** a young, na ve and innocent 14 year old ***** has experienced a lot and has borne two children from a man she thinks is her father. He abuses her and tells her that she cannot tell ********** about what he does. She ********** unlo*****d and worthless. She is then married to a man who is even worse than her father ***** she feels disgusted with herself. *****r life changes when her husband's lover comes ***** a visit and teaches her ***** speak for herself and makes her realize ***** she is worth something. She *****