Talk:The Color Purple
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The Color Purple is a story of a woman named Celie who has been oppressed. She had low self- esteem because she wasn't her husband's idea of beautiful. Her father raped her and from this, 2 children were born and taken away from her. The only person that loved her was her sister and she was taken away. Then she meets Shug Avery, the famous singer woman that her husband was in love with and the woman who taught her to stand up for herself and to have pride. They create a lesbian affair and a love that gradually allows her to separate from her husband and live her own life. Shug Avery, a beautiful woman, changes Celie's life forever baby, forever. This is a great story because it gives a real look at life for a black woman in that particular time in history.
(REAL? So some 80% to 90% of black men were rapists, pedophiles, and child abusers? When they weren't hanging at the juke joint they were busy beating their wives and molesting their daughters?
Fucking distorted view.)
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[edit] Book bans
What about the controversy this book creates in classrooms? It's been banned quite a few times in the past 20 years since it was first published, isn't anyone going to mention that? I'd do it myself but I'm not familiar with the Wikipedia formatting system, I just fix little things
Kathar , a self-described Wikignome
- Yes, it would be interesting, but I don't know anything about it. Why don't you write it on the talk page and someone can put it in the main article if you're not that comfortable? The JPS 10:59, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
the Color Purple is the coolest book EVER!!
[edit] musical of the same name
There is a current Broadway musical of the same name. Is it the same story line? If so, shouldn't we create a disambigun page for the three works (book, film , musical)? arctic 04:38, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I think there's a good chance it is the same. I haven't read the book, but the musical soundtrack seems to follow the plotline described here. arctic 04:41, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Okay so anybody can edit this and what if someone changes something
if someone changes something, then that's too bad. i'm tellin ya, this is an online encyclopidia that's FREE. although it's nice and handy, it shouldn't be relied totally and should be cross-referenced with something else because anyone can put anything on this!!!!!!!
[edit] Title?
What's the significance of the title? Mike Schiraldi 16:45, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
What a load of rot. How on Earth is purple the color of Celie's skin? The fact is Celie longs to wear purple, a color she associates with royalty and with vibrant women such as Shug, and a color she thinks God may have created in order to receive love. In the novel’s conclusion, she surrounds herself with purple. I am very very surprised you didn't catch that and that you thought Celie was some purple alien person!!!!!!
What a load of rot. how on Earth is purple the color that Celie longs to wear? She longs to wear the color RED, but Mr. _____ wouldn't buy it for her so she decided to stick with the colors Navy Blue and Black. God did not create the color to receive love, and Celie doesn't believe that either. In the novel's conclusion, she lives in the barn that she inherits and spends the rest of her life making pants. I am very very very surprised that you didn't catch that and you thought Celie was obsessed with the color purple!
Jeez, I can't believe you!
Red = menstral flow.
What the heck does menstrUal flow have to do with anything? You guys are a bunch of losers who suck at interpreting books. I'm not going to post anything anymore; argue about the stupid novel if you want, but I'm out of here.
S.T: The color purple has nothing to do with celie. it is the metaphor shug avery uses 2 describe how people take things for granted.
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- 'The color purple' is the color of flowers in the field. I don't have the book with me but I always understood that the flowering field became 'god' for Celie when she could no longer believe in the God from the church that couldn't/wouldn't answer her letters and allowed her to have such a miserable life.
Tell me where Shug describes people like this.
SR:
The color purple in the book is shorthand for for the emotions and spiritual associations in this book, it represents freedom, beauty and it is part of a philosophical argument on the nature of God
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it" Shug to Celie
(see Transformations of The Color Purple, in Reynolds, Novel Women 1993 for further discussion)
Also lavender represents female to female sexuality in some cultures. ure all idiots —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.38.57.216 (talk) 18:55, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Undeniable Misandry?
Has anyone else noticed the blatant racism, if not outright hatred for men and whites found in this book?
Virtually every male in the book is some form of rapist, wife beater, or worse.
Virtually every white person is at least borderline evil.
No, I'm not kidding.
The book opens with the main character getting raped and repeatedly impregnated by her degenerate "father", only to be given to another pedophile along with a cow.
Virtually every black male in the book beats their wife, and virtually every black female is subject to abuse.
The vast majority of white characters in the book are petty, mewling, weak, vindictive, ignorant, or... whatever.
I'll be the first to say the book is an engaging read... but to NOT comment on its inherent racism and misandry is wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.247.100.121 (talk) 02:58, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
