Color Purple Essay, Research Paper

In Alice Walker?s The Color Purple Celie faces love obstacles in the beginning

of the novel. eventually, she overpowers these obstructions and truimphs. One

example of a love obstacle Celie faces that eventually ends in truimph can be

found following one of her beatings on page 23, where he writes states ?It all

I can do not to cry. I make myself wood.? This clearly conveys that Celie

lacks love in the early portion of her life. However, she truimphs when she

meets Shug Avery, who says on page 118, ? I love you Miss Celie.? These

words show how Celie makes the transition from being unloved to being loved.

Another example of a love obstacle that she truimphs is stated on page 13 where

she meets Harpo. ?He pick up a rock and laid my head open.? Obviously, due

to his vulgar actions, he has nolove for his new mother. The trimph comes later

in the novel Harpo and Celie form a bond a mother would have with her son.