“The Color Purple” Written by Alice Walker
Words: 425 Pages: 1 4418“The Color Purple” written by Alice Walker is a book written from the perspective of a fourteen-year-old girl who gets beaten and raped by her dad. She first starts to write letters to god, then later in the book, its is just from her perspective. Many characters in the novel break the observant boundaries of traditional male and female roles. Sofia’s strength and Shug’s sexual assertiveness, Harpo’s insecurity are major examples of such disparity between a character’s gender and the […]