The color purple

Theme

• There are many themes in The Color Purple.
• From racism, feminism, and religion.

Biography

• Alice Walker (author) is a African American Novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist and activist

Setting/point of view

• Celie's point of view
• first person point of view
• Takes place from 1910-1940

Plot

• Celie is a young and disturbed child who gets raped by her step father and has her two children token away from her
• she writes letters to god that aren't dated

Conflict

• Women are mistreated in other ways besides beating throughout the book
• Celie believes she isn't worth anything at first.

MAin Characters

• Celie is the one who is narrating the story by writing to God
• Nettie is Celie sister on which Nettie is writing to Celie
• Shug Avery is a singer, helps Celie speak up

Characterization

• Celie is raped by her father, forced to give away her babies, always being insulted but in the end she realizes shes worth more than that.
• Mr.___(Albert) beats celie and forces her to work, when he grows older and starts losing people he realizes the value of religion and kindness

Characterzation

• Nettie is Celie's younger sister attractive, and strong. She ends up being kicked out of her house.
• Shug Avery is the exotic singer who happens to fall in love with celie