The Color Purple

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The paper presents a short literary analysis of the book "The Color Purple", written by Alice Walker. The paper explores the story, the meaning and the themes that run through the book and argues that the book presents an argument about the cyclic nature of racism and sexism.

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" Throughout history many authors have used their works to convey a message or idea to the reader. Sometimes this is a purposeful act of writing and other times it simply conveys such things as a by product of telling the story. Such is the case with Alice Walker's The Color Purple. As she tells the story of several Black women in one family setting as the story unfolds the reader can easily trace the themes of sexism and racism and the cyclic nature of them both in society."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Walker, Alice, The Color Purple. Pocket; Reissue edition (April 1, 1990)

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