The Color Purple is a novel written by Alice Walker. The Color Purple is 288 pages long. This book is defiantly a classic and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
This book opened my eyes to another perspective of the South when it was extremely segregated. The book is based around two sisters, Celie and Nettie. The book follows both sisters from there early ages on into when there are old. Celie, the oldest sister has a life of pretty much hell, but she manages to overcome her sorrow, and awful treatments to find that there is actually true love out there. Nettie, one of Celie younger sisters knows how much Celie wants her to get out of the poverty-stricken lifestyle they are in, and make something of her self, besides being a slave to a man the rest of her life.
This book was heart wrenching and shocking. I was leery at first to read because I thought it would be a hard and boring read, but in reality, it showed me that even though the white people of the town where awful to the blacks, the blacks were not doing much to help themselves. It showed me a side of the South racial issues I had never seen.
I would recommend this book to everyone from high school age on up. It’s written in a journal, and letter-to-letter entries. Alice Walker does a fine job of writing how a person actually talks, making it an easy read. This book will make you sit back and think for a moment about someone else’s life beside yours. The Color Purple does have some graphic detail and langue. I would rate this book an A.
This book opened my eyes to another perspective of the South when it was extremely segregated. The book is based around two sisters, Celie and Nettie. The book follows both sisters from there early ages on into when there are old. Celie, the oldest sister has a life of pretty much hell, but she manages to overcome her sorrow, and awful treatments to find that there is actually true love out there. Nettie, one of Celie younger sisters knows how much Celie wants her to get out of the poverty-stricken lifestyle they are in, and make something of her self, besides being a slave to a man the rest of her life.
This book was heart wrenching and shocking. I was leery at first to read because I thought it would be a hard and boring read, but in reality, it showed me that even though the white people of the town where awful to the blacks, the blacks were not doing much to help themselves. It showed me a side of the South racial issues I had never seen.
I would recommend this book to everyone from high school age on up. It’s written in a journal, and letter-to-letter entries. Alice Walker does a fine job of writing how a person actually talks, making it an easy read. This book will make you sit back and think for a moment about someone else’s life beside yours. The Color Purple does have some graphic detail and langue. I would rate this book an A.
This book sounds like it could be a good read. I don't particularly choose to read books like this. But I might always give it a try!
ReplyDeleteOoo.... this book sounds really good. I think i actually have heard of it before. I might actually have it haha... who knows though. But definatly going to have to read it.
ReplyDeleteLearning about the struggles the African Americans went through in the South has always interested me in school. This book sounds heart renching and I think it's a movie.
ReplyDeleteI have heard of this book before and wanted to read it but wasn't that interested but now you got me really interested. I think i will have to read this.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds really good. I have heard of it before but have never watched it.
ReplyDeleteI don't really like to read but this book sounds really interesting! I think I may start to read this one!
ReplyDeleteI agree - this is a very good book, though difficult to read in some places. It is also a movie and was recently made into a musical for the stage.
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