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=Alice Walker = = = =   = = =     Alice Melsenior Walker was born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia as the eighth child of sharecroppers. After high school, Walker went to Spelman College in Atlana in 1961 and later transferred to Sarah Lawrence College near New York City, graduating in 1965. Walker became interested in the United States civil rights movement in part due to the influence of one of her professors at Spelman College. She participated in during her college years, Walker returned to the South where she became involved with voter registration drives, campaigns for welfare rights, and child ren's programs in Mississippi. In 1965, Walker met and married Mel Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer. They became the first legally married inter-racial couple in Mississippi. The couple had a daughter, Rebecca in 1969, and divorced in 1977. Walker's first book of poetry was written while she was still a senior at Sarah Lawrence. Walker. In addition to her collected short stories and poetry, Walker's first novel, // The Third Life of Grange Copeland //, was published in 1970. In 1976, Walker's second novel, // Meridian //, was published. The novel dealt with activist workers in the South during the civil rights movement, and closely paralleled some of Walker's own experiences. In 1982, Walker published what has become her best-known work, the novel //  The Color Purple   // . <span style="COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The book became a bestseller and was subsequently adapted into a critically acclaimed 1985 movie as well as a 2005 Broadway Musical. Walker has written several other novels, including The Temple of My Familiar and Possessing the Secret of Joy (which featured several characters and descendants of characters from // The Color Purple // <span style="COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: #7c3390; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">) and has published a number of collections of short stories, poetry, and other published work. <span style="COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Her works typically focus on the struggles of blacks, particularly women, and their struggle against a racist, sexist, and violent society. Her writings also focus on the role of women of color in culture and history. Walker is a respected figure in the liberal political community for her support of unconventional and unpopular views as a matter of principle. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #ba55d3; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="COLOR: #863cb4; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; COLOR: #863cb4; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: #863cb4; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: #863cb4; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: #863cb4; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">     <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; COLOR: #863cb4; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: #863cb4; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: #863cb4; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: #863cb4; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">    <span style="COLOR: #b499d1; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="COLOR: #863cb4; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: #863cb4; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> ...Unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly- Nettie (Walker, 186) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">

====<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">__The Color Purple__ is a collection of letters from a girl, Celie, and later her sister Nettie. The book starts out when Celie is fourteen and the letters addressed to God, telling him about her moma's sickness, being raped by her father and being "big", or pregnant, for the second time. When her moma dies her father starts looking at Nettie in a way that scares Celie and leaves her to protect her younger sister. Seven letters in her father agrees for Cecile to marry Mr._, rather than Nettie marrying him. "I can't let you have Nettie. She too young. Don't know nothing but what you tell her....But I can let you have Celie. She the oldest anyway." (Walker,7) Celie doesn't get any choice in wheather she'll marry Mr., it is up to Pa and Mr. _. ==== ====<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Married life doesn't treat Celie well. She is regularly beat upon by Mr. and his children. Not long after they are married though, Nettie comes to stay with them for a short while after she ran away from home. One night Mr. says Nettie has to leave, so the next day Celie and Nettie promise to write eachother. "Nothing but death can keep me from it." Nettie promises. (Walker, 19<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">). ==== ====<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">After Nettie leaves a picture of a famous singer and her husbands past lover, Shug Avery, that she recieved from her step-mother, becomes her escape. Years after Shug Avery falls ill and Mr._ brings her home to live with them and for Celie to nurse her back to health. During this time there is some resistence from Shug at first but they soon become best friends and eventually lovers<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">. ==== ====<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">When Nettie left she went to a town and found a reverand and his wife, Samuel and Corrine. They take her in and help and teach her. Samuel and Corrine have two children, Olivia and Adam, both of whom are adopted. Nettie keeps her promise and writes to Cecile, but Mr. told Nettie when she left that "you would never hear from me." and he keeps the promise. (Walker, 127) Nettie goes to Africa with Samuel, Corrine and the kids to be a missionary to the Olinka people. ==== ====<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Harpo, Celie's oldest step-child, had gotten married to a strong willed women named Sofia. Sofia and Harpo and multiple children before her pride gets the best of her and she punches the mayors wife when she offered her a job as their maid. Sofia is sent to prison, until her friends and family work to get her out and working for the mayor and his family. This went on over a course of many years. During which Shug and Celie were becoming even closer. Until one day Shug discovers a letter from Nettie and passes it on to Celie. "He been keeping your letters, say Shug." (Walker, 121) Soon they realize he's been keeping them in the trunk of his car and they read them all. ==== ====<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">From Nettie's letters Celie learns many things, such as the fact the man they thought was there father is not. "Pa is not our pa!" (Walker,177). After hearing this Celie contronts her "father" and Albert, (Mr.___) leaving him and moves with Shug to Memphis. In Memphis Celie starts making and selling pants. When she goes back to visit Mr._____ they are able to talk, bond and form a friendship. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">All the while she is still recieving letters from Nettie, who has since married Samuel as Corrine died. She becomes a second mother Adam and Olivia, who we find out are Celie's two children. ==== ====<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> ==== <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I think for this story the letters work, even though I usually don't like that type of writing. Also the poor grammer and spelling from Celie's letters work for setting and the character even though some times it took a minute to figure out what she meant. Something that confused me as the reader was the lack of dates on the letters, so sometimes it would be five years between letters and you would just have to figure it out on your own. I didn't realize till the end of the book that thirty years had passed! <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #7c339d; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #863cb4; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">Overall I give the book four stars out of five. I would recomend the book to others just to be aware that it is graphic.

If you like the book I would recommend seeing the movie [|IMDB Webpage] with pictures, cast list and videos.

If you like __The Color Purple__ you should check out Jessica Beloved a novel Katrina Catcher in the Rye [|I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings]