The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Book Analysis)

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker, which tells the story of Celie, a poor, uneducated African-American woman living in the rural Georgia in the first half of the 20th century. After being abused by the man she calls her father, married against her will to a man she does not love and forcibly separated from her beloved sister Nettie, Celie begins to despair of her condition. However, thanks in large part to her burgeoning relationship with the charismatic jazz singer Shug Avery, she gradually develops a sense of identity and begins to assert her independence in spite of the barriers facing her. The novel won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was subsequently adapted into an Oscar-nominated film directed by Steven Spielberg.

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