Top tags: fiction, african american, classic, women, historical fiction (all tags)
“This was a borrowed book from my favourite English teacher. I asked for it because I had read Alice Walker's short story 'Everyday use' & I loved it.I remember I read it at 17 in about two days. The reason I couldn't finish it in one day?? I was really shocked and amazed and thrilled and in love with it and I honestly found it necessary to take a breath!!! For days afterwards I was dreaming about it and I can't think of any other book leaving such a scar on my mind and...”
“Purple is symbolic of royalty, also closely related to violet, which , if you know anything of chakra colours has special spiritual meaning. I was just wondering why Walker chose specifically the colour purple.It's a beautiful colour. Feminists had adopted lavendar as their colour, and gays have pink. Establishement and tories have blue or navy blue, liberals and leftists have red. Politically neutral has orange. Green is an eco-colour. So I was wondering if purple is associated with anything political.”
“And what is significant about the color purple? I mean, why not red or pink or ..? Is she trying to make an allusion to race or skin colour? Or does purple signify a bruise? Help me out here..”
“excellent book by an excellent author, who also is a very decent person (see Zora Neale Hurston). also an interesting aside, Oprah was great here in the movie, unlike the disaster of Toni Morrison's Beloved.....”
“I saw an edition that had purple pages..I read it years ago and want to ask something..why is it called 'The Color Purple'? I'm sure there is a symbolic reason for the title I don't know if it ever says so in the book, if so I must have missed it.”
“Dude i wanna read this book, you keep tellin me about it!”