In all, Alice Walker makes a wonderful blend of fiction and reality, which makes The Color Purple a captivating and relatable story.Īlice Walker has used the publication of The Color Purple to reinforce her stance on some global political issues. The character Nettie’s experiences in Africa were inspired by Alice Walker’s time as an exchange student in Africa. The character Sofia who gets blinded in one eye, is reminiscent of Alice Walker herself, who is blind in one eye. For instance, the character Anna Julia that was murdered by an obsessed lover was inspired by the story of Alice Walker’s grandmother, who was murdered by a man that wanted to be her lover. It is the third novel written by Alice Walker and it won her a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 and a National Book Award for Fiction also in 1983.Īccording to Walker, The Color Purple is a manifestation of her desire to bring to the human consciousness the evils of division across gender and racial lines and hopefully liberate humans from these evils.Īlthough not a true-life story, Alice Walker in The Color Purple reflects some true-life struggles, some of which she experienced directly, and others that she heard were experienced by others.
The Color Purple is Alice Walker’s best-known work. Climax: Celie’s enraged outbursts at Mister at dinnerĪlice Walker is a versatile writer who has written and published many collections of poems, memoirs, essays, short stories, and novels.Setting: Early 20th century Georgia and Memphis in the USA and a fictional village in Africa called Olinka.Genre: Epistolary Novel African-American Literature.The abuse and travails Celie suffers render her numb to life but she eventually begins to heal and triumph over her adversities through support from a strong woman named Shug Avery and the loving words of her sister Nettie who shows her different places in the world through her letters.
She is later married off to an older widower who continues to rape and abuse her. The novel centers on Celie, a fourteen-year-old African-American girl who is constantly raped by her father but has no one to help her or to confide in and so resorts to writing letters to God as her only outlet.
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