Alice Walker's "Purple": The struggle of Sally's letter says, "Dear God, let me go out of here, I need love and laugh, I need to remove these illegal children and these white men. Start writing on God. In her letter, she explained her fear of her ruling father raping her, her mother and her sister being beaten, and her fear of her sister Netty. This letter novel (a novel in which stories were made by letters) occurred in the early twentieth century when slavery was still in the southern part, blacks were living a discriminatory life.
Alice Walker's "Purple" is a novel that depicts the struggle of African-American women for independence, self-respect and identity. Racial discrimination against black community, especially black women, and the impact of sex difference are reflected everywhere in the book. This novel is written in alphabetical order. This shows chronologically the life of Siri in South America for 30 years. 91 letters written by Celie and her sister Nettie raised Celie, she received spiritual encouragement
The bond of common struggle connects Alice Walker 's novel "Purple" with Amy Tan' s "The Joy Luck Club". Rape, suicide, death, war, oppression and racial discrimination invade two novels. In The Color Purple, Celie overcomes racial discrimination, violence and other problems in search of dignity and love. At Joy Luck Club, daughters struggle for acceptance, love, and happiness. These characters experienced many difficulties, but their survival is not because they did not become a bitter individual but also became a more complete individual.
Abuse, especially black women, often occurs in the early 20th century. Alice Walker 's novel, Color Purple, touches the child abuse of Seri' s childhood and expands her struggle to keep on adulthood. Celie noticed her husband had hidden the letter that her sister Nettie wrote to Celie for many years, as her husband had argued with his mother's mother. With Shug Avery
The book "purple" was written by Alice Walker. This book is not written in a traditional way. This is a series of letters over the life of Celie, the protagonist. The bulk of the letter was written by Celie, and some were written by her sister Nettie. The theme of this book is to remain loyal to yourselves despite the difficulties and never give up what you believe. Do not let people think that you are yours. Then, there is a will to live in the worst case. At the beginning of the novel, we learned that Cili was raped by her father. We also learned that Celie 's mother is sick and can not take care of her family. Serie was forced to cook and clean family. Due to the constant rape of her father, Cili was pregnant with two children. She never saw her child, I think her father killed them.