![]() ![]() ![]() Then, Alfonso marries Celie off to Mister Albert after her mother’s death. Her father, Alfonso, repeatedly rapes his daughter and forbids her to tell anybody about what happened, except for God. The protagonist of the novel is Celie, a fourteen-year-old abused black girl who lives in Georgia and addresses her letters to God. Walker writes in an uneducated language and southern style to create the atmosphere of an impoverished area and develop complex relationships between the main characters and the themes mentioned above. Its name comes from a character’s words, “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it” (Walker, 1982, p. The novel is written as a series of letters, that are not dated, and has a fascinating and thought-provoking plot. More than that, The Color Purple won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction in 1983. This work was adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg in 1985 (Bay et al., 2015, p.169). It addresses some crucial issues, such as segregation and sexism. The Color Purple by Alice Walker is an epistolary novel about African-American women in the southern United States in the 1930s. ![]()
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