The Color Purple Research Paper

Alice Walker an award winning womanist,americanist,and civil rights activist has accomplished overnight success with “The Color Purple” and “Women.” Both reflecting black females rights and Alice Walker's southern childhood struggles. “The Color Purple” takes place in the segregated harsh south between 1910 and 1940. Walker remakes the humiliating and devastating discriminatory laws outcomes and uses americanism to achieve white and black interaction across the united states.

Born in Eatonton Georgia 1944,Walker was self conscious growing up because of an accident that changed her life. At 8 years old her brother accidently shot her in the eye with a BB gun and blinded her. In 1961 she attended college at Spelman then transferred to Sarah Lawrence in 1963. After graduating in 1965 Walker moved to Mississippi as a civil rights activist. Here she met and married a white civil rights attorney in 1967 named Melvyn Leventhat.They were the first legally married interracial couple to live in Jackson Mississippi. Walker and Leventhat ended up divorcing in 1976. (Encyclopedia of World Biography pg 59-61)Her first novel was published in 1970 and the second in 1976. Walker went on as a professor of literature at a number of colleges and universities. She has received many awards
It has won the Pulitzer prize and American book award for fiction in 1983. Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) was sold to her husband Albert (Danny Glover) who was a sharecropper and also very hurtful to Celie. He hid letters that were responses to Celie from her sister Nettie (Akousa Busia). This made her believe that her sister was dead and Celie was destroyed from the uncertainty.Celie becomes close with her husband's mistress Shug (Margarete Avery) and starts to feel more comfortable where she is. Celie roots through Alberts things and finds her sister's letters and is able to overcome her fear of Albert. Celie then leaves him to better herself and her