Celie's Awakening By Alice Walker
Section 1 Celie's Awakening
The novel The Color Purple, by Alice Walker is a story about the struggle and the transformation of the protagonist Celie from a shy little girl that never stood up for herself who later on in her life developed into a strong confident and independent woman. Her awakening is due in large parts to the many female figures she met throughout her life. These figures are her sister Nettie, Mr.____'s sister Kate, Harpo's wife Sofia, and the singer Shug Avery. The setting of the story is in the early 1900's in a small town in Georgia. The story is told in a first person narrative by the main character Celie. Celie starts out as a quiet character that lets everyone around her run all over her without standing up for her self. The story starts off as Celie being a young fourteen …show more content…
One of the people that Alice inspired is Cornell Womack which is a Doctoral student at the University of Pittsburg. Womack can be quoted as saying "Alice has left an important legacy for young people in that she remains a simple, unpretentious woman who's interested in adding her wisdom and commitment to the movement, not in being a star." This is truly words of encouragement and if one person can feel this way, there are probably many others that feel the same. Alice Walker is a humanitarian, and even though everyone is entitled to their own opinion, most of what is said about Alice is incomprehensible. How can a racist woman have such a deep passion for the civil rights movement is what I would say. She also attended a predominantly black college. As I stated before, Alice Walker was the valedictorian of her class and that pretty much means she has the choice to go to a variety of top notch accredited programs across the nation but she chose to attend a college that she could learn a lot more about her roots and where she came
The novel The Color Purple, by Alice Walker is a story about the struggle and the transformation of the protagonist Celie from a shy little girl that never stood up for herself who later on in her life developed into a strong confident and independent woman. Her awakening is due in large parts to the many female figures she met throughout her life. These figures are her sister Nettie, Mr.____'s sister Kate, Harpo's wife Sofia, and the singer Shug Avery. The setting of the story is in the early 1900's in a small town in Georgia. The story is told in a first person narrative by the main character Celie. Celie starts out as a quiet character that lets everyone around her run all over her without standing up for her self. The story starts off as Celie being a young fourteen …show more content…
One of the people that Alice inspired is Cornell Womack which is a Doctoral student at the University of Pittsburg. Womack can be quoted as saying "Alice has left an important legacy for young people in that she remains a simple, unpretentious woman who's interested in adding her wisdom and commitment to the movement, not in being a star." This is truly words of encouragement and if one person can feel this way, there are probably many others that feel the same. Alice Walker is a humanitarian, and even though everyone is entitled to their own opinion, most of what is said about Alice is incomprehensible. How can a racist woman have such a deep passion for the civil rights movement is what I would say. She also attended a predominantly black college. As I stated before, Alice Walker was the valedictorian of her class and that pretty much means she has the choice to go to a variety of top notch accredited programs across the nation but she chose to attend a college that she could learn a lot more about her roots and where she came