One of the main purposes proposed by Walker in her passionate novel The Color Purple is the idea of suppressed women, specifically African American, in the rural south during the early 1900s gaining an opinion of their own and a voice to state it. Sexism and gender issues still exist in modern day society with many traditional citizens against the idea of women participating heavily in politics. During the 2008 presidential election, one candidate stood among the rest as a woman rising from behind the shadows of the dominance of men in the political realm. Hilary Clinton posed policies and promises of her own to set herself apart from Barack Obama and John McCain in the election for our new leader just as Celie, the strong young woman in the novel, opposed her father and the preeminence of the men in her life to gain her civil and social freedoms and rights that she knew she deserved. By relating Alice Walker’s female empowering story to that of modern controversy with sexism helps readers understand the author’s true intentions and purpose in writing.
Your point is very true. Walker's story not only narrates the self-redemption of female main character Celie, but also brings voice to the women in this world who are struggling to overcome oppression. Further expanding your text-to-world connection, women in the Middle Eastern countries find themselves voiceless and shut out from the male-dominated society daily, just as Celie was constantly trying to find the courage and words that could help her break the tight chain of oppression.
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