Literary Technique in "The Color Purple"

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This paper reviews the literary proficiency that Alice Walker employs in her book "The Color Purple". The author of the paper examines the use of this technique in building the character of the story and how it conveys to readers how Alice Walker uses her main character's command of the English language to convey her sense of self confidence and ego development.

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"Alice Walker depicts these important female bonds as being established through language - i.e., the exchanging of confidences and ideas, the giving and receiving of advice and comfort; other positive, ego-affirming verbal exchanges. Here then, the use of language for deepening friendships, mutual understandings, and self-understanding in particular nourishes Celie and helps her finally know and articulate not just how she has felt and feels now, but who she is and wants to be."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York: Pocket, 1982.

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