Nettie Exposed In Alice Walker's The Color Purple

My name is Collier White and my great-great-great-great-great- grandmother wrote a memoir of my family’s difficult trip from England to The United States of America in the 1700s. Her name was Sarah J. Picken Cohen. I did not know her but I can tell that she was involved in my family’s story. She was involved by sharing our story in special places and sharing the memoir with lots of people. Her book was called Henry Luria or The Little Jewish Convert. Henry Luria was her little boy who converted to Judaism. He would have been my great -great -great- great- uncle. But he sadly passed when he was eight years old. Sarah wanted to show people what he had been through just because of his beliefs. Sarah lived in Richmond, Virginia and married

They say don’t judge a book by its cover, yet everyday people are judged just based on skin color, gender or anything else that sets them apart. Walker’s pulitzer prize winning novel “The Color Purple” talks about the struggles of an African American woman, Celie, and the journey she goes through in order to overcome the barriers of sexism to become a stronger woman and discover her independence. Similarly, “In Love and Trouble: Everyday Use” - also written by Walker - goes into a story about an African American woman, Dee, and her struggles with sibling rivalry, racial identity, and racism during a chaotic period of history. Through narrator point of view, symbolism, setting, and imagery, Walker illustrates the prominence of discrimination

Through out the novel of “The Color Purple”, the novel includes characters that are dynamic and also static. Some of the dynamic characters include Celie who is a young lady and also the main character in the book. Celie is the person who writes to God and later on writes to her sister Nettie. She changes through out the story because in the beginning of the novel, Celie was scared to even talk back to Mr. Albert. Mr. Albert was a person whom she would listen to anything he would ask her to do. In the beginning she asked Sophia how she does what she does which is confronting people without being scared. “All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. A girl

Children are always being told what not to do. They are told: "do not touch that!" "Do not eat too much candy!" "Do not stay up too late!" So many things are off limits to them; however, being told not to read a book should not be one of them. Books should not be censored for children and young adults because in reality, life is not censored. One specific book that should not be censored, or challenged, is The Color Purple by Alice Walker. It is challenged for exposing the gruesome truth of racism and abuse along with the use of profane language. Although these elements these elements are not positive topics, they are necessary to depict the reality of life in the early 1900s. The Color Purple teaches the reality about the mistreatment of African-Americans

In today’s world, many different people from many different backgrounds and countries hold certain values close to their hearts. Though different values are held close to different people, people always have held values close to them. A major value that people around the world hold close is courage. A major reason that people hold courage close is because people who have courage are often looked up to. In today’s world however it seems that many people undervalue courage.

The Secret Life of Bees was written by Sue Monk Kidd and is considered a fictional novel filled with young romance and adventure. This novel was published by Penguin Books and when released in 2002 it received critical acclaim and was on the New York Times bestseller list. This 302 page novel challenges the mind to think back to the past when the color of skin determined the number of hardships one would have. This novel is read by millions and relates to many when the were young.

The Color Purple is important for teens to read because its most prominent theme is how family sticks together through thick and thin, and it talks about the value of it as well. Within the first 20 pages of the book, Celie is separated from her sister, Nettie. Celie is forced into a marriage, so Nettie doesn’t have to be. Celie takes all of her father’s sexual abuse, so Nettie doesn’t have to suffer. “They cry theirselves to sleep. But I don’t cry. I lay there thinking bout Nettie while he on top

Alice Walker had a lot to say about family in her book, The Color Purple, in this book family had loose conditions and was often inter tangled. Celie’s friends and family were remarkably confusing and complicated at times, because many people were sleeping with people they were not married to and that was married to their friends. However, no family is perfect, so why would this one be, in the end it was all Celie and everybody else really needed. Family is shown throughout this book as the people who stick with a person, a biological relative, and these people in turn contribute to Celie’s development as a character.

Throughout history, individuals have shown a trend in escaping situations in which they were in captivity. Similarly, this trend hold true in literature, as well. Alice Walker’s The Color Purple exemplifies this idea, as her protagonist, Celie, escapes from an abusive relationship by the end of the novel. Furthermore, Ayn Rand’s Anthem conveys the same message, for the main character of the novel, Equality 7-2521, eventually leaves the oppressive society in which he grew up. Essentially, in both novels, the characters manage to escape wrongful captivity, but they show both similarities and differences in trying to achieve this act.

The novel’s protagonist, Janie Crawford, a woman who dreamt of love, was on a journey to establish her voice and shape her own identity. She lived with Nanny, her grandmother, in a community inhabited by black and white people. This community only served as an antagonist to Janie, because she did not fit into the society in any respect. Race played a large factor in Janie being an outcast, because she was black, but had lighter skin than all other black people due to having a Caucasian ancestry. As a child, Janie did not even realize that she was actually black until she shown in a photograph among a group of white children. After growing up confused about her identity, Janie struggled with conflicting thoughts about love and marriage. Through a series of relationships, Janie found herself constantly struggling against

For example, Celie becomes socially, economically and spiritually free, she sins love, dignity, and respect. This paper has analyzed how the characters in The Color Purple arouse their self-consciousness, through sisterhood and encouragement, love and help from their partners. The author demonstrates how the characters escape degradation caused by mistreatment by men and finally win dignity. The paper recognizes that Celie utilizes sisterhood to gain liberation, sexual identity independence, and freedom.

Isabel, the protagonist, is a black slave with her little sister Ruth. They live with a very cruel master that has very harsh to both the girls. Becky is the white maid and she is nice to the girls. In the text, it says, “I pushed her hand away and wiped off the flour. “Where is she? What did they do to her?” “She’s gone” Becky said. “Gone?” I repeated. “Gone where?” Becky studied her shoes again. “Sold.” [...] “Sold?” I repeated. “No, she's not, they didn’t” Becky’s eyes filled again “Yes” she said quietly. “They did” (Anderson 132). In this Isabel wakes up and can not find Ruth, her sister. She asks Becky where Ruth is and she tells Isabel that Ruth is gone and that madam sold her. Because they were black, they were put into slavery, making it so that Isabel and Ruth have to split and Ruth got sold to another owner. Then, Isabel was also separated from her father as well her sister. Isabel’s family is all black and they had to get sold into a family for slavery. In the text, it said, “And Poppa, he didn't want them to bust us up like sheep or hogs. “I am a man,” he shouted [...] Poppa fought like a lion when they came for him, the strongest lion, roaring; it took five of them with hickory clubs” (Anderson 11). Isabel’s father tried to fight for his family, for them not to be sold. And because they were black they had to be separated to be sold, but his father fought for them. And they took away Isabel’s father because he was black. Isabel never saw her father again because of social injustice. Curzon was Isabel’s friend who was also a salve and was also black. Curzon’s owners were patriots and during the Bellingham affairs, the loyalists were coming after the patriots. In the text, it said, “I searched for Curzon every day, but Bellingham’s affairs kept him out of sight. I was afraid to

The book is based in the 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi and focuses on a woman named Aibileen whose life was about to change forever. During this time there was inequality towards blacks and whites. In this book it shows the struggles they faced, movement for equal rights, and the everyday life of a maid. Her whole life Aibileen took care of white babies and loved it, but it was the mothers that gave her a hard time. The woman in this town were rude to there maids except a few. For example a woman named Skeeter wanted things to change for the maids of Jackson. She wanted to write a book about what it is like for maids to work for white families and went to get help from Aibileen. With this came trouble for Aibileen and all her friends who

In the short story, “A Worn Path,” Eudora Welty follows the journey of an old, frail woman named Phoenix Jackson on a long walk into Natchez, Mississippi where she has to get medicine for her grandson. The trip becomes especially difficult because of her age, and in mid-trip she forgets the reason for the struggle. At the end of the journey she remembered, retrieved the medicine, and decided to buy her grandson a Christmas present with the ten cents she had acquired during the day. Although, there is a deeper meaning that conveys simple life behind the journey, as well as the story, a simply beautiful story with many techniques and devices that employs an intricate and densely complex form. Even though it is not clear to anyone quite what it is, the story

Walker writes this book in a culture when America has freed the slaves and a little after the reconstruction era. Ideally, it demonstrates the living of African Americans living in the south, therefore their treatment is culturally harsh. Basically, the characters in this book lived in a white male dominated society. The author includes the culture of the African people of Olinka. These two cultures of "black" heritage illustrates the customary gender roles, social status, religion, and material traits. It was custom for wives and women to the run the household. On Celie's wedding day to Mr. ____ she spends it automatically dealing with the children and running the household. Celie write, “I spend my wedding day running from the oldest boy. ...The girls hair aint combed since they mommy died... cook dinner… I start trying to untangle hair..."(12) This is the cultural role in which women have to run the household. The same day she marries Mr.___ she is instantaneously cooking and caring for the children and house. This is a prime example of the cultural expectation for women. . In addition, it says," Your place (Sophia) is here with the children... Women is like children. You have to let them know who has the upper hand."(35)