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A review by rosie_reads_x
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
4.0
The Color Purple is about two sisters, Celie and Nettie, growing up in rural Georgia in the US, in the early twentieth century. It’s written in a really interesting format by way of letters, initially between Celie and God, and then between the two girls.
The letters describe their lives as they are each sent off in a different direction. Whilst Celie gives birth to two children, is forced to give them up and is then married off to a local man, who’s pretty much only ever referred to in the whole book as Mister ____, Nettie becomes a missionary and travels to Africa to help a tribal community.
Neither of their lives are easy, there’s lots of abuse, racial segregation, and violence. But what is apparent is the hope that they continue to have throughout, despite all the hardship.
There’s lots of colourful characters which I really enjoyed. And lots of interesting story lines with each of them. If I have one criticism it’s that I lost interest a bit in the second half of the book. I think the story slowed down a lot when Nettie started writing back because the writing style in her chapters was very different and I wasn’t invested in the characters on her side as much.
Overall though it was a good read. And apparently there was a film made of it which was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg! Has anyone seen it? I’m intrigued as to how they told the story in a film when the whole book was written in letters!
The letters describe their lives as they are each sent off in a different direction. Whilst Celie gives birth to two children, is forced to give them up and is then married off to a local man, who’s pretty much only ever referred to in the whole book as Mister ____, Nettie becomes a missionary and travels to Africa to help a tribal community.
Neither of their lives are easy, there’s lots of abuse, racial segregation, and violence. But what is apparent is the hope that they continue to have throughout, despite all the hardship.
There’s lots of colourful characters which I really enjoyed. And lots of interesting story lines with each of them. If I have one criticism it’s that I lost interest a bit in the second half of the book. I think the story slowed down a lot when Nettie started writing back because the writing style in her chapters was very different and I wasn’t invested in the characters on her side as much.
Overall though it was a good read. And apparently there was a film made of it which was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg! Has anyone seen it? I’m intrigued as to how they told the story in a film when the whole book was written in letters!