After reading and watching “The Color Purple” I thought it would be interesting to look into the context of the book and movie. In my preliminary research, I found a really helpful starting place on Sparknotes which provided basic background info on author Alice Walker. If you are interested in a quick read, I recommend…
The character development within Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, is quite critical. While Celie, the protagonist, develops drastically based on her environment and other characters around her, so does her sister Nettie overseas. Although Celie’s character is more focal, readers are able to see the two sisters’ identities unravel over the course of the…
Drawing on Professor Curseen’s theory from last class — that blackness gets defined differently in The Color Purple — I wanted to investigate how blackness represents itself between Sofia and Celie. The dialog between Sofia and Celie, as well as their interactions with Miss Millie’s family, identify blackness as something other than the conflict of…