Tolog Review: The Color Purple

The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
reviewed by Meiqing Gao

This great book which is not only describe a dark world, but also give people a newest, challenging and some different points of views. “The Color Purple” describe a black woman Celie who is not beautiful, intelligent, no characteristics and cowardly with a totally different world with us. Celie writes the letters to the God everyday about her daily through her lifetime. Through this process, she knows some new people and new qualifications; she is changing, she become a greatly, confidently and hopefully person, she get lover, friends, kinship and something she even cannot imagine before. I’m going to talk about some plots about her changes next.

Celie was the poorest woman in this world; she lost her self-esteem, her children and her sister Nettie because of her gutless. The first time she got the new thought is from Sophia. Sophia was an impulsive person, she knows how to reject things and speak it out, she has her own mind; however, Celie is afraid of refuse the things she doesn’t want and resist people. Sophia gave her a big influence because that’s an amazing thing she did not contacted before. Sophia has so much different with Celie. she hit back her husband and leaves him with fearless. She made a new point of view for Celie.

Shug Avery gave the second impact of her worldview, which is the most important part of the book. The author described Shug as a brave, critical and creative form. Celie and Shug fall in love and with a huge courage that regardless of the secular view. Celie learned a lot from this lovely woman, her views, her personalities, and also some feelings she ever felt before. Shug is a proud, beautiful woman for her. The last thing happened make Celie waked up with a powerful energy, she started to resist her fate; she leaved with S from Albert. Celie got her new beginning. She worked hard and got her happiness. The God is fair, she met her sister Nettie again and hade more friends, the property from her father got back and gained her lover. Almost everyone in this book realized the problems for themselves and changed in a good way.

At the ending of the story, they got happiness undoubted, readers felt relax and feel really delighted, for people in this story. This tory main theme is that feminist awaking and revolt, also tell as repressive and intolerant is everywhere, genders are not a problem for love as well.