The Color Purple By Alice Walker

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A Sociological Perspective on the novel , The Color Purple

Alice Walker is the woman behind the excellent and highly critiqued work , The Color Purple . The said book is basically influenced by the historical events of Walker 's time . She drew inspiration from those occurrences in order to give life to her work . Between the period of 1960s and the 1970 's Walker was greatly affected by the events in the society . Thus , she incorporated the message of women 's struggle in a society where

discrimination and patriarchy exist . Racism was very much prevalent during her time . Walker had a terrible background in which she had a first hand experience of discrimination in the South The place of Georgia , as the setting in the novel is an epitome of slavery for the Black people . The characters , being Black , have a mindset that there is no hope of eradicating racism in the future This can be reflected in the statements of Sophia , a character in the book

I 'm sitting where I always sit , I say . That 's the problem , she say Have you even seen a white person and a colored sitting side by side in a car , when one of 'em isn 't showing the other how to drive or clean it (99

Way back in 1954 , the Civil Rights Movement was passed on in the Supreme Court . The birth of civil rights paved the path for providing equal treatment to African-American...