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Essay Archive - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, is a very intense book to read. By
intense, I mean it is a book touching very difficult and hard aspects of life of
a poor, black oppressed woman in the early twentieth century. Walker does
social criticism in her novel, mostly criticizing the way black women were
treated in the early twentieth century. Walker uses the life experiences of
Celie to illustrate her social criticism.
The Color Purple is not written in the style of most novels. The author
does not tell us everything about the characters, the sett....
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