The Color Purple | Ideas for Group Discussions
The Color Purple is a novel that invites group discussion. Its construction is such that the absence of an omniscient narrator forces readers to piece together the gaps in the narrative. In a sense, reading this novel is a little like quilt making. And group discussion of the novel's narrative should enrich the individual's reading.
This novel could be viewed as a set of instructions on how to build a self starting at the bottom of American society with no self-esteem and with no advantages. (Could a character have fewer advantages being black, female, poor, and lesbian?)...
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