The Color Purple | Social Concerns
In tracing the life of one woman, Celie, from the early 1900s to the mid-1940s, The Color Purple reveals the harsh emotional, social, and economic difficulties facing blacks (especially women) in the rural South during the first half of the twentieth century. Just as important, it traces how these difficulties can be at least partly resolved by hard work, faith (in oneself, if not in God), and education. As these remarks suggest, the novel veers dangerously close to the platitudes which marred Walker's earlier writings, but the incisiveness with which she presents her material...
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