The Color Purple In Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple, the concept of the body, reproduction, and violence shown through the novel are the most prominent and key concerns seen in this novel. Beginning with the perception of the body, The Color Purple portrays a very striking interpretation from the first pages. “She ugly. He say. But she aint no stranger to hard work. And she clean. And God done fixed her. You can …showed first 75 words of 1291 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1291 total…beaten, abused, neglected etc… just to be told to shut up and take it. This is what happens in our culture as well. Alice Walker’s portrayal of a women is not far from the reality of the modern world. The Color Purple has a breathtaking plot that follows a women’s delimas and choices through a life that is doomed from her youth, to have a portrayal of survival by going with the flow.