The Color Purple
The Color Purple
Eng.: 225 Introduction to Film
Instructor: Hannah Martin
April 7, 2014
The Color Purple Steven Spielberg has a different point of view about the novel The Color Purple. His view of The Color Purple was that it should be made into a movie. The film identifies various aspects of abuse towards women. Spielberg used different women in this movie to help demonstrate the acts of violence, among those women is Celie the most prominent victim of abuse, she had to deal with many obstacles in her life. In this essay I am going to discuss Celie life as a child into adulthood of the abuse she suffered such as sexual, mental, physical abuse, and domestic violence and how she overcame those obstacles. The story is being told from a series of journal entries, diary and written letters describe to the readers about Celie, the main character. An uneducated young black girl living with her family and abusive step-father. Celie was an unattractive “ugly” girl who had become a mother of two children by the she was age 14 by her father (Walker, 1982). “You better not never tell nobody but God, it’d kill your mammy” (Walker, 1982). Celie was fractured by the rapes and the inability to raise her own two children. Since her father was having sex with her this would keep her father hands off Nettie (Walker, 1982). Celie mother was quite ill, and was not have sexual intercourse with her husband. Celie was forced upon and sexually raped by her step-father (who Celie assumes was her real father). After Celie gives birth her father sold both of her children to a missionary Reverend and his wife. Celie mother died, her father brings home a new wife but continue to abuse Celie. In this movie Celie was never shown talking to God at no time about her problems. Celie did share her feeling and her problems with
Eng.: 225 Introduction to Film
Instructor: Hannah Martin
April 7, 2014
The Color Purple Steven Spielberg has a different point of view about the novel The Color Purple. His view of The Color Purple was that it should be made into a movie. The film identifies various aspects of abuse towards women. Spielberg used different women in this movie to help demonstrate the acts of violence, among those women is Celie the most prominent victim of abuse, she had to deal with many obstacles in her life. In this essay I am going to discuss Celie life as a child into adulthood of the abuse she suffered such as sexual, mental, physical abuse, and domestic violence and how she overcame those obstacles. The story is being told from a series of journal entries, diary and written letters describe to the readers about Celie, the main character. An uneducated young black girl living with her family and abusive step-father. Celie was an unattractive “ugly” girl who had become a mother of two children by the she was age 14 by her father (Walker, 1982). “You better not never tell nobody but God, it’d kill your mammy” (Walker, 1982). Celie was fractured by the rapes and the inability to raise her own two children. Since her father was having sex with her this would keep her father hands off Nettie (Walker, 1982). Celie mother was quite ill, and was not have sexual intercourse with her husband. Celie was forced upon and sexually raped by her step-father (who Celie assumes was her real father). After Celie gives birth her father sold both of her children to a missionary Reverend and his wife. Celie mother died, her father brings home a new wife but continue to abuse Celie. In this movie Celie was never shown talking to God at no time about her problems. Celie did share her feeling and her problems with