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The Color Purple: The Fight From Domination To Self- Freedom

But I don't know how to fight all I know how to do is stay alive.' (Walker, 18) This quote taken from Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple opens the idea of struggle and fight throughout the story. Similar to many black women writers in the past twenty years, Walker is intrigued by examining black women's lives and writing about their hardships for self-determination. The Color Purple tells a story about a black woman who is sexually and physically abused, as well as verbally dominated for close the three decades. Walker has risked exploring subjects and talk about issues which are generally unacceptable to many readers. She seems to have no qualms about exposing any problems which stand in the way of people's freedoms including sexism and racism.(Jamison-Hall, 2) Walker sees and portrays a world from inside out and uses the main character, Celie to do so. This surname-less abused woman records her experiences in letters to God as well as her younger sister Nettie. This story......


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