A presentation of: "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker : November 2011

Abstract

Summary

“The Color Purple” is a literary example of the cultural diversity of the United States of America and a picture of social and ancestral history.

In the novel we accompany Celia during about 30 years of her life. She is an African American woman living in the beginning of the 19th century in a rural area in the southern United States.

14-years old, in consequence of repeatedly being raped by her "father" already mother of two children, Celie starts to write letters to God to explain to herself her feelings of shame and frustration about her life and especially how men treat her.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

The language in the book is very colloquial and it reflects very uneducated people

The colour purple is a royal colour

Themes

Female African-American life during the 1930s in the Southern United States
Male dominance/violence
Colonialism/Missionary in Africa at the Beginning of the 20 th. Century
Religion Music

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Alice Walker is the author of 'The Color Purple'.

See an interview with her here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uALf_v0zxgE