The Color Purple by Alice Walker


The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, is a very intense book to read. By
intense, I mean it is a book touching very difficult and hard aspects of life of
a poor, black oppressed woman in the early twentieth century. Walker does
social criticism in her novel, mostly criticizing the way black women were
treated in the early twentieth century. Walker uses the life experiences of
Celie to illustrate her social criticism.
The Color Purple is not written in the style of most novels. The author
does not tell us everything about the characters, the setting, and why the
characters behave the way they do. The novel is written in a series of letters,
not dated. There are large gaps between some letters, but this is not revealed
by the author; we have to figure it out ourselves. The letters are written in
what Walker calls black folk language, which also reduces the easiness of the
reading.
When the novel opens, Celie is a young black girl living in......

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