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Summary: Critical Evaluation on The Color Purple
Review: Love, gender, race, friendship, religion, abuse, and discrimination are just some of the struggles that are presented to the characters in Alice Walker's novel, The Color Purple. You grow to love each character as you learn more about them, and thus, understand the choices that they make due to their particular situations. The novel opens very abruptly and gets the reader aware of the situations and emotions that are being dealt with throughout the novel. The opening was intriguing and makes the reader want to know more. Once you have read the first page, you will not be able to put the book down. One of the best things about the novel is the language that Walker uses to create an atmosphere of exactly what you would think that it would have been like in those times. The reader becomes so wrapped up in the lives of the characters that he/she tends to forget about his/her own life and focuses more on the characters life situations. The reader is brought into a world that seems unreal to us now, and feels the same feeling that the characters in the novel feel. The novel was extremely descriptive which was a good thing at times, however, a bad thing at other times. Due to the massively detailed events, you obtain a greater understanding for the characters in the novel, however at times the detail is very overwhelming. Alice Walker is very upfront and unafraid to be extremely descriptive in certain events that should be personal and should not be shared with members outside of the parties involved. The particular events, however, are important to the development of the novel, but the gruesome details are unnecessary. The Color Purple is a novel that all adults should choose to read. It expands your understanding of what it was like to live a life as an African-American woman in the olden days. Once you pick it up, you will not be able to put it down!
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Summary: The Color Purple
Review: I think this book was really good. I thought it was good because this book is all about how life was back than. This book is very different than any book I have read. I opend the book and I noticed that the author made it look like the character Celie was writting in her diary thats how the book goes. At first I thought it was going o be boring but actually I really got into the book.My favortie character in the book would have to be Celie, because she is a strong woman that never gives up. Celie her husband beat her all the time and than she had enough nerve to stand up and tell him that she is leaving him and that is hard to say that to someone. I think people should read this book because it is written diferent and if you like really good detail books this one would be REALLY good for you to read.
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Summary: THE COLOR PURPLE - Sinagua High School
Review: The Color Purple portrays a realistic account into the life of Celie, a young black woman, with a tragic and abusive past. She learns how to survive, how to let go, and most importantly how to love. Her life revolves around abuse and insecurity in her own home. Celie and her sister Nettie grow up facing some of the biggest fears you could never imagine. The girls grow up being abused and being kept very sheltered. A neighbor becomes attracted to Nettie as she matures but her father holds her close. He tells the man he can only have his other child whom he refered to as the "ugly" girl. Celie is almost "given" to the man for marriage and lives her life being abused by men. Previously, at a young age, Celie had had two children, which were supposedly killed. Later in the book, Nettie begins working for a couple. The couple have two children that resemble Nettie. The woman becomes convinced that Nettie and her husband have had an affair. Nettie later found out that the couple had Celie's children from when she was younger. The wife of this couple dies and Nettie marries the man and both keep the children. The father of the girls eventually dies and Celie inherits the house where the family grew up. These two women suffer through life's many obstacles, as hard as they may become, but survive. As tough as life became for these two women, they never let life bring them down with it!
I really enjoyed reading this book, written by Alice Walker. Walker uses so much feeling and emotion into her writing that it makes it all feel so real. The book is very passionate about women's longing for strength and power. The setting of the book was a time when women were over powered. The facts and descriptions being out the pain of this period in time. The book opened a whole other world for me and for my appreciation of life. The book set my mind into a place of uncommon knowledge. I learned of life's hardships and suffering. There is a side of life that many people fortunately never have to face. During this book, it was as if my mind had witnessed a crime. The troubles the women had to suffer made me gasp. It details the life that I hope to never live. While reading, I gained a relationship with the characters as if their life was my very own. I kept reading to find that there was hope in these characters and their lives. It recognizes the truth that once we fall we can only get back up. The book shows this message as a clear point. Nettie and Celie never gave up on life no matter how much they felt life had given up on them. You knew the girls must have questioned "why?" and "why us?" through their rapes, betrayals, and other tragedies. Nettie and Celie conquer the ups and downs of life by forgetting the past and living for the future. They give the reader an empowering feeling of desire to work for who they wish to become. This book gave me a new perspective of life yet gratitude for my own.
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Summary: Perfect
Review: This novel was my introduction to Alice Walker. I have since read most of her works and find her one of our greatest and most passionate writers. The characters in The Color Purple are well developed and emotionally charged. Celie and Shug's relationship is heartwarming and beautiful. The transformation of Celie provides one of the most amazing journeys in literature. This novel will break your heart at the same time it strengthens your spirit. I met a woman several years ago who carries a sentence from the novel around in her wallet. This is an example of the impact the book can have.
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Summary: *~*The Color Purple*~*
Review: "The Color Purple" brings the readers into the life of a unique young woman growing up, changing, and finally learning to live and love, under difficult circumstances. The main character, Celie shoes her painful experiences, and torn emotions, through her personal letters to God, and her beloved sister, Nettie. The novel opens with the brutal and descriptive account of the sexual and physical abuse Celie endures from her father. This is the beginning of the horrible cruelty Celie faces at the hands of men in her life. She is living in a time period where a women's role is submission, and men are allowed to treat them however they please. She is simultaneously struggling to take care of her family and sick mother. Immediately I felt great sorrow for Celie, her life could not get any worse. Until, as an attempt to get rid of her, her father offers her hand in marriage to Mister. In her marriage to Mister she suffers even more physical and sexual abuse, while she is expected to take care of his ungrateful children.
Soon she has lost all hope in life, until an unexpected arrival changes everything. Shug Avery, a woman who is known in town for her promiscuity, is the mistress of Celie's husband. When Shug becomes ill, Mister brings her to their house to care for her. Celie is fascinated by Shug and her strength and will to do things her way. Soon the women form and unlikely bond, that ends up saving Celie from her anguish. Slowly, through Shug, she learns to love, and then to live. Another strong woman in her life, Sofia, also helps her to believe in herself. Celie finally achieves enough strength to stand up to Mister, and she tells him she is leaving him. This is a turning point in her life, and things progressively improve, until she is no longer the sad, broken and abused woman of her past. She is now, loving, strong, and happy. Through many other side plots and characters in the story, Celie's personality is developed. There are major changes in Celie, and also the other main characters, each learns a valuable lesson from each other and triumphs in the end.
It is a wonderful and inspirational book, Celie begins writing her letters as a hurting woman, in the end she conquers the domination of men. It is very well written, and really shows the feelings and emotions of Celie.
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Summary: Caught Me
Review: The color Purple is a great book. I dont usually read books cause i get sleepy and bored. I am not a person where I would grab a book and read just cause. You would have to make me read a book. I liked the way the book started. It caught my attention. I was interested and wanted to know more. I told my teacher I wished it was a second part to it cause I think it would be really great. If you don't like books and you need to read a book for school you should really choose this book cause it will check your attention. It would keep you going and you would be done in no time.
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Summary: An Excellent Read
Review: This is one of my favorite books of all time. Alice Walker creates a character who in the beginning is afraid of her own shadow. She learns that through perserverance and steadfastness that she can come out smelling like a rose on the other side. Her misfortunes began as soon as her marriage to Mister is sealed through the customary consummation. She fights for an inward voice that is expressed unconditionally through her relationship with her sister, Nettie. Mister finds Nettie to be incredibly beautiful, yet the feeling is not mutual. He pursues her indefinitely, until finally he kicks her out of his home. Mister is a tyrant to Celie who succumbs to his continual physical and verbal abuse. She is mesmerized by the town whore Shug, and discovers a secret place within her self whenever she beholds even a flyer stating that the woman is in town or nearby.
Mister eventually moves his mistress, Shug, into their home where an unlikely bond is formed between her and Celie. The book suggest that Shug serves as a savior, a guide, and even a lover to the folorn, beaten down, Celie. Celie decides to take charge of her life, once she finds that Mister had with-held the letters in which her sister, Nettie, had written her over the years. She begins to show a hidden strength which the author suggest was there all along. It is clear to see in the earlier part of the novel, that perhaps Alice Walker was building Celie's character for this amazing confrontation between her adversary Mister during a family Easter meal. It seems that this in many can be seen by the reader as a sort of resurrection of sorts. This begins the initial climax in the story in which she decides that she will no longer be a victim, but an overcomer in life. This has got to be one of the most intriguing pieces of literature that I have ever read. This book holds fast to letting women know that they too can be free. It really has nothing to do with race, socio-economic status, or rank in society, if you are a victim, you can choose to be free. I thoroughly appreciate this book it allowed me to view my life differently, and to view the lives of women around me differently as well. Just because someone seems to have it all, there is always an underlying trace of pain. No one has it perfect -- we are all but mere survivors; overcomers in a daily game call life.
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Summary: Great Moments
Review: Walker's relationships were well-developed. I will certainly give her that. And the first half of this book, as I watched Celie go from victim to entrepreneur, was most entertaining. The time spent with Shug is a brilliant relationship. BUT the latter half of the book proved dry. I might go so far as to assert it was unnecessary. Disappointing after seeing just how well Walker can write.
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Summary: A Classic For All To Read
Review: This story deals with the life of a black woman named Celie. She has had a terrible life and her only refuge, her sister, Nettie, are not together. Along with the riveting narritve Walker gives great deatail of how life was in rural Georgia. This book shows many themes but one of the stronger ones is the idea of self worth and value of the individual which is personified by the character Shug Avery. This book is also very controversial because of its language and graphic scences. Walker is not going to hide the way life was for many blacks during this time period in American history. This book will open your eyes to the wonders and horrors of the life in the South for a black woman.
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Summary: The Color Purple
Review: Alice Walker tells the story from the perpective of a poor, fourteen-year-old black girl, named Celie. Celie lives in a country house in Georgia with her sister Nettie and her father Alphonso, who impregnates Celie twice and presumably kills each newborn after birth. After her father sells off Celie into a marriage to a much older man, Celie finds herself enduring the many trecherous labors and constant abuse by her new husband, she learns that her sister has disappeared, and through many years of no word from her and the death of Alphonso, presumes that she is dead. Years pass, and Celie has grown up and lived with the frequent battering from her husband, but through it all remains strong and curious as is in her nature. Along the way Celie develops a unique relationship with a talented woman named Slug, who through her loving nature, empowers Celie to take control and change her life. The suspensful ending made reading this book an experience that will remain with me for a long time.
"The Color Purple" may be one of the most moving books I have ever read. Its constant twists and surprises made reading this book an emotional adventure in itself. Watching Celie change throughout this book made me feel like I actually knew her and I felt each experience she endured in her personal perspective. "The Color Purple," with its fairytale ending, left me with tears of joy as this book truely brings you into the life of Celie, as you can feel the different emotions she experiences and the stuggles she endures. I would definately recommend this book to anyone who enjoys realistic novels containing complex charaters, surprises hiding around every corner, and constant emotional rollarcosters.
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