COLOR PURPLE
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The Color Purple Theme Analysis
The theme of Alice Walker's The Color Purple is devoted to the mistreatment of blacks and especially black women. Walker's novel is dedicated to black women's rights. The theme of The Color Purple is: Every woman has the right to stand up for herself no matter what skin color, ethnicity, or race she is.
Throughout the novel, the readers could truly see that Walker's novel is derived from her own personal experience, growing up in the rural south as an uneducated and abused child. The main idea of the novel is to inspire and motivate black women to stand up for their rights.
In the beginning of the novel Celie is the main character, who is black. She is being verbally and sexually abused by her stepfather as he "put his thing up against" her hip and "wiggle it around." Celie during this time she was fourteen years old and never stepped up for herself because she didn't know how. Soon, she leaves her house and goes to another house where her husband abuses her too. Not until Shug Avery, a lovely, black women, who stands up for herself, arrives at Celie's house and helps Celie to get away from her husband who is just abusing her...