In the novel, The Color Purple, a realistic fiction novel by Alice Walker, the book starts with Celie's father rapping her. Celie never tells her mother, but eventually she starts to get "big" and her mother asks her who the father is. Celie says the father is God. Adding to that, after Celie is pregnant a second time, her father gives away her second child again. Secondly, Celie is married away to a man whom liked her sister, Nettie, but her father let her marry him, but not Nettie. Celie is then forced to care for his children and him. Once Celie moved out Nettie ran away from home to go with her. Albert tried to flirt with Nettie but she ignored him, so he told her she had to go. Celie is left alone but she tells her sister to write to her, like she writes to god.
Celie meets one of Albert's old loves and they become close, that is how she finds out that he has kept Nettie's letters from her. While Shug is with Celie, Celie feels loved, Shug is always with her and helps her out. Shug takes Celie with her to Tennessee where she starts her own little business of jeans. Celie for once feels happy again, while she is there she no longer writes to god but to Nettie. Nettie and her actually have conversations now that they receive eachothers letters. Years later Celie moves back to her house where she meets with her beloved sister and children.
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The main theme of the novel, The Color Purple by Alice Walker was every race has good and bad in it. I believe this to be the main theme because all throughout the novel walker describes what blacks do, and whites as well. For example: "Then he grab hold my titties. Then he push his thing inside my pussy" (Walker1). This shows that blacks do horrible things but not just them, every human being does bad in one way or another. "Then the white merchant began to get together and complain that this store was taking all the black business away from them, and the man's blacksmith shop that he set up behind the store taking some of the white" (Walker181). This quote shows the bad things that white do, so no matter what race, there is good and bad.
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The protagonist Celie is a dynamic character because at the beginning of the story she does everything that is said to her and never questions anything. Towards the end of the novel Celie starts to stand up for herself like Shug does. Celie is also a round character because her personality changes, she doesn't have the same views she had at the beginning.
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One important motif from the novel was the use of letters. The letters contributed to the work immensely because it is a way of communication. Celie writes to god at first since she thinks he is the only one who listens, or hopes he listens, but then later on she finds out her sister writes to her and she starts to write to Nettie instead. The use of the letters show the characters true emotions and show what they may not show to other people.
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The reason I chose this book was because my friend read it and asked me to read the first page. I took the book and read the first page and it seemed like a crazy book but it looked so innocent on the cover so I decided to find out myself if it was so crazy as the first page seemed to be.
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Nettie, the main character's sister I think is like myself. The reason I think Nettie is like me is because I love learning and don't want to stop. I believe if I was in Nettie's situation I would have runaway as well to study.
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One idea from this novel that I expect to remember for a long time is sexism. I believe I will remember this for a long time because it comes to show the restrictions there were long ago. I believe it is important to have a little say in what you want. "And what was my surprise when a little girl opened the door and she had your eyes set in your face." I think this was the most interesting quote because I could see Celie even if I had never actually seen her.
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