Alice Walker's Color Purple - Celie's Quest for Self-discovery

Pursuing Celie's self-discovery At Alice Walker 's The Color Purple, Celie has many misunderstandings about herself and her world. Because of her pain and abuse, and her ignorance for a better world, Celie 's image of herself and herself' s possibilities is very different from reality. Most importantly, purple is the story of Celie 's growth and self - discovery, which she accomplished with the help of her commitment and Nettie and Shug. As her father and husband told her, Cili thinks she is ugly and stupid.

In The Color Purple of Alice Walker, there are many similarities between the hero Celie and Alice Walker. Some examples come from the poor black family in the south, both have superficial problems and are sexually oriented. For example, in "Purple" there is no positive image of men in Cili's life, like Alice Walker. On February 9, 1944, Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia. She is a daughter of a poor tenant, the youngest of eight children (Bloom 229). As she was born in the early 20th century, "she grew up with violent racial discrimination and her family's poverty left a permanent impression on her writing" (Grade Saver). This can be seen by her explanation of Celie. Cili is a very poor family came from Georgia, an uneducated young black girl.

At the beginning of The Color Purple, Celie is regarded as an object just like any other woman who is writing Walker (Alice Walker ... 130). Celie received sexual abuse from her stepfather during her childhood. After the death of Celie's mother, her stepfather raped her. "He started killing me, you told me to get used to it" (Purple 1). Celie should be able to trust her father-in-law Pa, but his abuse grows up, self-reliance, self-esteem and becomes complete as she was not promoted by family and moral motivation It hampered (LaGrone 7). Instead, Celie is considered a marginal person (Alice Walker's ...). Celie was taken away from her stepfather. She was ugly and not smart so he negotiated with Albert (The Color Purple 8)

In "purple", Alice Walker uses several symbols and letters to explain the danger and painful life of Xili. From the point of view of the reader, the title of this book "Purple" represents the pain and bruise that Ceyley gave through her poor life. Alice Walker personalizes stars and trees and while dealing with Seri 's communication, Dear God, Nettie, Dear Stars and Trees shows Celie' s dangerous personality. By reading this book, when a story occurs, readers can understand discrimination between men and women in social status, and Celie is only one of the young women with great fate. In those days, young women of despair and loneliness by Celie are much worse than what we can imagine and imagine. In the novel "purple", men are drawn in various ways. It depicts men, but there are also some good images of men. They ultimately changed the way they handle women.