The Color Purple

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The Color Purple (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

Places Discussed

Pa’s home. Rural Georgia home in which Celie and Nettie live together as young sisters. This place serves as a frame for the novel, which begins and culminates in this small, frame house. Despite the severe psychological and physical abuse to which the girls are subjected in this place, the home is where their formative bonding occurs. Although the girls are treated like slaves in their own home, this place of origin endures throughout the novel as a constant reminder of their only identification as family and the primary source of motivation for a...

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• Alice Walker (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Alice Walker (Poetry)
• Alice Walker (Short Fiction)
• Alice Walker (Long Fiction)
• Alice Walker (Dictionary of World Biography)
• Alice Walker (Identities and Issues)
• Alice Walker (Women’s Issues)

See Also:

• - For teachers, the The Color Purple Lesson Plan.
• - The Color Purple summary and study guide in the eNotes.