The Color Purple Book Pages. The Color purple addresses a lot of sensitive topics that Walker definitely does not shy away from. We assign a color and icon like this one to each theme making it easy to track which themes apply to each quote below.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1982 - FICTION - 294 pages. A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. I need not have worried.
But I dont never git used to it.
Note that the novels title is alluded to in Letter 12 when Celie associates the color purple with royalty and longs for a purple dress. However its also about strong Black women and I immediately was like this is a brilliant book for feminists. All page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Pocket Books edition of The Color Purple published in 1985. Summary Read a Plot Overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter Summary and Analysis.
