Color Purple Point Of View

The color purple

Point of view: The point of view in this novel is first person through the form of letters. The first half of the novel is completely told from Celie’s point of view. “You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy,” said Alfonso “Pa Harris”. After this spoken line, that is when Celie begins her letters, written to God; she addresses God in a diary form to let him know what was going because she was not able to express her inner feelings to anybody. The second part of the novel is alternated between Celie and Nettie. Celie’s lack of education portrays her poor spelling and grammar, however, she still tells a powerful story. On the other hand, Nettie is highly educated and her letters discuss more complex

Celie is a poor, uneducated fourteen year old who was repeatedly raped by a man she calls Pa and impregnated twice. After she gave birth to her children, they were both taken away from her. Additionally, Celie was forced into marriage with a man who continued the abuse for many years named Albert, but known as Mr. After many years of abuse, Celie felt worthless because she has been devalued her whole entire life. She lost respect for herself because of the opinions and

horrible treatment of others towards her. Celie then meets a singer named Shug Avery. Through Shug’s love, Celie begins to realize her own self-worth, which increases her ability to stand up for herself and to not to only love and take care of others, but to love and take care of herself.

Symbolism:

At the beginning of the novel, Celie has no sense of the color purple. Shug is the person who points out the concept of the color purple to Celie. Shug thinks that it “pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.” She believes that God place’s beauty in the world to make humans happy and he wants people to notice the beauty of his creation. Shug teaches Celie that enjoying life is a way of expressing our love for God. It represents all the good things in the world that God creates for men and