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Celie’s Final Letter
In Alice Walker’s, The Color Purple, the presence of letters to an empty contact is seen throughout the entire novel. These letters, being the most basic and preliminary use of communication, relay information back and forth between two sisters, both of whom are living during the 1900’s, a time when African American women faced many problems. For Celie, a young black girl growing up in an abusive household during the reconstruction of the South, these hardships included poverty, racial discrimination, sexual abuse, as well as sexual discrimination as viewed in Walker’s novel. Celie eventually is separated from the only person whom she truly cares for, her sister, and although the pair promises to write one another, neither one gains the security that someone cares for them on the other end for the transactions are never completed. Upon seeing this failure in communication, as well as the partial success gained from the attempts, this paradoxical......

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