The Color Purple
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The Color Purple"
"The Color Purple" is one of a number of Alice Walker's writings written as a result of many of her life's experiences. Alice Walker was born on February 09, 1944, in the rural town of Eatonton, Georgia. Alice was the eighth and last child of Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Tallulah Grant, who were sharecroppers. Alice Walker's parents' experiences with the oppressive sharecropping system and the racism of the American South deeply influenced Walkers writings and life's work. When Alice was eight years old she was accidentally shot in the eye with a Beebe gun by one of her brothers causing permanent blindness, also leaving her with a facial disfigurement. Walker, ashamed of her looks isolated herself from other children. She spent her time reading and writing for entertainment.
In 1961, on a scholarship for disabled students, Walker enrolled in Spelman College in Atlanta, where she became active in the African American civil rights movement. Two years later Walker transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, from they're to Uganda as an exchange student. To Walker's surprise upon her return as a senior she discovered that she was pregnant...