"The Color Purple": How is the development of Celie by Frieda Meyer

By Frieda Meyer

Seminar paper from the 12 months 2012 within the topic American reports - Literature, college of Hamburg, direction: African- American Literature, language: English, summary: First released in 1983, the tale of Alice Walker's the colour red is determined in rural
Georgia within the 1930's. it really is narrated in the course of the letters of Celie, the protagonist, who
begins to put in writing to God with the intention to inform him approximately her lifestyles, on account that her step-father sexually
abused her and informed her to by no means inform a person yet God approximately it. whilst Celie begins to
write, she is 14 years outdated. in the course of the epistolary sort of the unconventional, the reader earnings a
good, extra own and subjective influence of Celies psychological and actual condition,
and additionally of the placement she is becoming up in, as she writes down every little thing she will be able to not
tell an individual else. additionally, the truth that Celie writes as she speaks intensifies the impression
that the reader is in a talk together with her. She isn't really attempting to provoke a person with
what she writes down, yet to house what occurred to her.
In the process the radical, the reader is brought to the characters that play a job in
her existence, in addition to the relationships she has with them. curiously, she by no means gives
away the names of male people like her step-father or husband, yet calls them „He“ or
„Pa“ or „Mr___“. The names of men which are more youthful than her are mentioned.
Celie is uncovered to present process an incredible switch in her character and state of affairs, that in
the finish bring about her monetary, emotional and non secular independence and freedom.
In this examination paper, i need to target the indicators that be sure that Celie to
develop her character in such many instructions, and that i are looking to take a look at what or
who may perhaps bar her from doing so. consequently i'm first going to examine the relationships
between Celie and the characters which are very important for this subject and moment have a
look on the symbols and symptoms which are utilized by the writer in the course of the novel in
order to teach swap goes on.
After exhibiting this, i need to attract a end from it, sum up my findings and give
a brief analyzing response.

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