Kid reviews for The Color Purple

Alice Walker's *The Color Purple*, despite its strong descriptions of rape and violence, is a powerful novel showing the empowerment of black women, namely Celie, in the southern United States. Various themes centering around racism, patriarchy, sexuality, and independence are meaningfully developed. It's important to know that the descriptions of rape and violence, however strong, are NOT gratuitous; they are meaningful within the context of the story which, without these aspects, would be a lesser novel.

The Colour Purple is a very good but graphic and intense book about the hardships of being a black woman in America's south, it is interesting and well written but goes into a lot of detail about sex. It touches on very important topics such as rape, sexual abuse, domestic violence, sexism and racism. The main character Celie has been raped and impregnated by her father, and is sexually abused by Mr_____. This makes it difficult to read and a little sickening at my age. Celie also talks about her strong sexual feelings toward another woman and also her masturbation. This makes it a bit inappropriate But--- It is very good as it includes a lesbian relationship and strong female characters............ All in all, it is a challenging but vital and important book.

I read The Colour Purple as a part of work for my A-Levels. I believe it is a highly educational novel, as it involves sensitive topics such as religion, abuse,rape,feminism, politics. In today's society some of these topics can be looked over, and I feel that The colour Purple allows people to see an insight of what these topics can do to effect the way people lived in the past today, and how they still relate to today's society. I would recommend this book to everyone, and I think it is one of Alice Walkers best novels.

While the book was well written, the themes of rape, sexual identity, and violence all led me to dislike this book. The author went into too much detail about rape and self pleasure as well as a lesbian relationship. The book is not one that I would recommend for children or adults with sensitive eyes and ears. The words "t--ties", "p---y", "my little button", and "his thing" are all used to describe the horrible sexual accounts of the book. The main character's step father rapes her and impregnates her twice. Her husband sexually and physically abuses her. Multiple characters have multiple sexual relationships outside of marriage. The reader is submerged in the civil inequalities of blacks, especially women, in Southern Georgia. The reader is also subjected to religious questions that involved a broader, nature filled God. This book, although it has an interesting set up with letters, is highly inappropriate for children.

I had to read this book for a banned book unit in class. There is definitely a reason why this book has been challenged and banned. From rape violence and incest to self pleasure and questioning sexual identities, this book is definitely not meant for children or teens for that matter.

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.” ― Alice Walker, The Color Purple First I should mention first that this book has a lot of strong language, some sentences are not proper english and some words aren't spelled correctly. (on purpose of course). Also some things said and done in the book might be really upsetting to some considering how young the main character is but if you can get past that then you would be good to go. The color purple is an inspirational book that involves a lot of sensitive topics on religion, race, abuse, neglect, rape, and many more but its main focus is the main character celie a 14 year old girl that's trying to finding her voice. Protagonist Celie documents her life by writing letters to god. Since a young age Celile been enduring abuse by both her own father and Mr which also includes her father impregnating her twice ending in one murder and one sold daughter, also a random man, Mr who has 3 kids that ends up becoming Celie husband so as you can see both Celie father and Mr are both the antagonist. But Celie has one light in her life; her sister Nettie. Nettie lives in africa after being kicked out of Mr’s house for refusing his advances. She writes letters to Celie to let her know she’s alive and tell her about all her adventures she goes on. Mr’s oldest son Harpo falls in love with this women named Sophie who is strong willed and doesn't let anyone disrespect her and I mean anyone just ask harpo when he got bad advice to put his hands on her. Lets just say he ended up with more bruises. Conflicts start to arise when Celie is introduced to a couple of strong women such as sophie and shug because she ends up finding her voice which allows her to figure out that she is loved and cared about and she doesn't have to endure/put up with the pain his man has caused her. Celie leaves Mr and he has to go through life seeing how it it is to go without a woman that attends to your every need. By reading my review would you read the book? Please comment and let me know! "I maybe black, I may be poor, I may be a woman, and I may even be ugly! But thank God I'm here" The Color Purple, by Alice Walker