Alice Walker’s The Color Purple: Analysis

Alice Walkers The Color Purple From reading the extract from The Color Purple, the reader is blow out of the water almost straight away from how the fibre/narrator (who in this carapace is the author Alice Walker) is treated and brought up by her father. The way in which the explanation is told is in the form of letters and a kind of diary address to beau ideal as she is told You better not tell anybody but god itll kill your mammy. The reader tail end almost sense that this was written and was never expected to be read or seen by anyone else, it feels rattling personal and private to the two-year-old girl just between her and god.The wording she uses is appropriate in the way that you can imagine this fourteen category old black girl who is not very well educated, lecture and writing this way. Putting her bill across in a conversational manner hammers theme in a way the gravity of the young girls enlist all the more as it talks to a capacious range of readers and is u nderstandable to all. Also the syntax with the short and punchy sentences again hits home and grabs the attention of the reader right away My mama dead. She die let loose and cussing. She scream at me. She cuss at me. Im big. I cant move stiff enough.The mankind is extremely emotive and graphic with the images it invokes upon the mind of the reader. You can feel the beatings and torment she suffers on an almost daily basis. With this being a true story it feels all the more real to the reader as you can sympathise for this poor girl and the ordeals she is confronted with, it would be hard for a lot of people to empathise with her as it is an extremely harsh and august time in her life and mayhap through this hold up she has maybe helped people who are in a similar situation, which demonstrates how strong this piece is in creating the character/s.Again you can really feel for her plight throughout the extract it could be argued that writing a personal story is probably easier than that of a work of fiction, as there is no imagery required because the characters and story are already created. This said with the graphic percentage point in which the author/character/narrator puts her story across it shows a strength and humbles the reader for the way the author has opened herself to the world. This again gives the exclusively piece a sense of realness, which would be harder to convey if it were a work of purely fiction.The reader feels and cares about the characters well-being right away from the commencement ceremony three or four paragraphs as she endures being raped by her father and the beatings which followed. Alice Walker has created here an extremely emotional piece by the way she has put her own story in to words and by using her own personal experiences of suffering. She has created a very strong character/narrator, so that anyone who reads this piece can visualise and feel as if we the readers are god and she is talking solely to us.