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Summary: AN INTERESTING AND INCREDIBLE NOVEL!!!!!!!!
Review: "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker really open my eyes to reality.It showed me how to comfront society as a more persistent and brave woman. Life isn't easy being a woman and one has to be strong to surpass all obstacles...this book is a great example!!!!
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Summary: Change
Review: The actions of many people have much to do with how they are viewed by others. It could be as simple as what you choose to where to school one day, or as complex as a decision that will change the rest of your life. Also, almost everyone loves to have some amount of power. Power and perspective are two main themes that are portrayed in The Color Purple. Another main theme is change. The way in which Celie, Sophia, and Nettie change because of power, control, and perception, play a large role in this novel. The way in which these three women change, however, are incredibly different.
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Summary: disturbing but beautiful
Review: This book was a very easy read, I read it in 2 days. This is one of the best books I have ever read! I really don't have words to describe what I got out of it, only that I would tell everyone to read it. I didn't find it very deep and I don't think it made me think, but it did make me feel something. Whenever a book can actually make you feel, it is very powerful. And this book is moving in it's simplicity. I am so glad I read it!
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Summary: Excellent. A remarkable story
Review: As a freshman in college, I read this book during a women's history course. I couldn't put it down and spend a Saturday reading it from cover to cover.The symbolism was incredible. The fact that the protagonist, an abused child and later an abused wife, turns her life around and makes a successful living selling pants is an example of this. I also like the part where she spoke about painting her whole house purple after not being allowed to wear that color before her metamorphasis. After reading this novel I gave it to my mother was later passed in on to my sisters. We are all in agreement that this is one of the best books that we have ever read. Truely inspiring to any woman who has known abuse and/or defeat and longs to triumph over it.
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Summary: The Color Purple touches your heart.
Review: Alice Walkers, The Color Purple, is an emotional and indeliby affecting book, telling the life of a young black girl that is abused by her father and later by her husband. The content of the book indicates the stages of seperation, love, hate, and jealousy, which touches your heart. Celie shows the reader that she is a survivor and that all things can go in any direction. Walker puts all aspects of men, women, blacks, whites, children, adults and God into this superb book. Celies emotions are also magnified into a diary that she writes to God about her husband, sister, and her husbands lover, Shug Avery. Shug gives Celie the strenght to become her own woman and stand up for herself. Walker definately shows her talent in this book deserving every bit of the Pulitzer Prize.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This is a wonderfully rich story of reality in the past.
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Summary: Inspiring, thought-provoking, BEAUTIFUL!
Review: The Color Purple has been critical to my understanding of black culture and it's framework. It's brutal honesty is refreshing and Walker's candid descriptions of Celie's life reflect literature at it's absolute best. I have never been so affected by fiction; Celie's growth throughout the novel coincided with my own, as I learned about friendship, love, and ultimately triumph. This novel should be required reading for all high school students, it's influence can positively enlighten all of society.
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Summary: a wonderful display of one black woman's strength
Review: I loved this book! I suggest to anyone.
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Summary: A brief description of the plot and analysis of characters
Review: Throughout Alice Walker's The Color Purple Celie, the main character, undergoes several changes brought about by her contact with other people. Her Pa or who turned out to be her stepfather was a major influence in her life - not good, though, but bad influence. He abused her physically by raping her and left her to take care of her siblings as a surrogate mother even when she was but a child. He didn't even tell her that he wasn't her real Pa, or that her children were alive. The second man in her life was even worse in some ways - her husband, Mr.______ or Albert whom she married, but she really was bought - he got a cow with the deal. He abused her not only physically by beating her but he also abused her verbally by calling her names while working her to the bone. He kept her under his thumb with these tactics. These two men left her subdued and passive, who acquiesced and gave in rather than put up a fight. She became emotionally dead with this suppression of her personality of who she was - she was just a person who cooks and cleans and takes care of the children without any consideration given to her. Even a horse who has worked hard and loyally for its master gets to enjoy freedom and relaxation, but not Celie. She is treated worse than an animal. However this changes with the coming of two women into her life - Sophia and Shug Avery. Sophia, wife of Harpo, was a strong willed women both physically and emotionally, also as stubborn as a mule. When Sophia first arrived Celie became jealous of her as she waw how much in love she and Harpo were in and no matter how difficult life became they were truly happy - something Celie thought she could never have. So when Harpo came to her for advice on how to deal with Sophia, Celie said, "Beat her". And he did. When Sophia found out that Celie had told him to beat her, she rushed to Celie and demanded to know what she was doing to her marriage and said, "All my life I had to fight ... but never did I think that I would have to fight in my own home". The realization of what she had done to Sophia came to her and from then on Celie and Sophia were fast friends. Sophia's courage to fight for her rights with Harpo, Mr.______ and the Mayor taught Celie to stand up in the face of adversity not crumble. And later on in the book she does stand up to Albert. Shug Avery was the one person in her life who affected Celie the most in her life. Shug had held a fascination for Celie ever since Celie first saw her picture which had fallen out Albert's pocket. When Shug first arrived she was very sick and was practically at death's doorstep. Celie through clever manipulation brought Shug from the very jaws of death, metaphorically speaking. Slowly but steadily their friendship grew until the time when they went to bed together. That was when Celie unburdened herself and told Shug her life story. When Celie told Shug her about her Pa who raped her and had two children by Shug said, "You're still a virgin then" and Celie replied, "I guess I still am". By these small acts of listening and other small acts of kindness and love, the first Celie had known for a long time - not since her sister Nettie went away, Celie broke out her shell of isolation. Shug brought Celie back not only emotionally and physically but also sexually and religiously. It was as though Celie was reborn as a different person. A person who not only had the courage to tell Albert off and stabbed his hand with a knife, but someone who left her husband to go with Shug to Memphis to start a sort of pant factory there with two girls working under her. Celie wasn't the only one in The Color Purple who underwent changes in personality - Albert became more the kind of person who Celie could grow to love - caring, loving and who helps her. Sophia changed from strong willed to pathetic in her old age as she became more like Celie of old - subdued and passive from her long stay in prison and as a servant, a change that was the direct opposite of the change Celie underwent. These changes in Celie and others through their interaction with others were akin to the ever changing shoreline, which, under the influence of others is being altered and transformed constantly. The changes that Celie underwent are aptly surmised by Alice Walker's poem "Remember". At first Celie was, "the girl holding their babies cooking their meals sweeping their yards washing their clothes Dark and rotting and wounded, wounded". But after meeting and befriending Shug she becomes, "the woman: Dark repaired, healed". In the end the woman that Celie turns out to be, is confident, resolute and healed from the scars left from her childhood. This was not an exceptional book nor did it have an original plot but it did do a very good job of the portrayal of characters and their reactions to their surroundings and other stimuli. Therefore, the two characteristics of the book in my mind tend to even out thus it received an average scoring.
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Summary: Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"
Review: I am a fifteen year old sophomore at Western Sr. High School. I read this book three times and watched the movie so many times that I know the words by heart and I can actually do the hand movements to Celie and Nettie's hand game. I was pleased to find that even when you know the words by heart, there is still room to learn more about the character's emotions, beliefs and interpretations. When learning never stops and you have captivated an audiences attention enough for them to read it ten times you know that you have a winner.
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