The Fairytale of Alice Walkers Color Purple Essay -- Color Purple Ess

The Fairytale of The Color Purple   It is important for one to disunite between the real outcome of economic achievement as described in The Color Purple by the lynching of Celies father, and its alternative economic take care presented at the end of the novel depicting Celies happiness and entrepreneurial success.  To distinguish between these outcomes it is necessary to relate the novel to two Models (Historical and Empirical Data, Manners and Customs) of facsimile in the real and alternative worlds of The Color Purple.   By focusing on the letters describing the lynching of Celies father, and the letter describing Celies economic stability and happiness (found in at long closing curtain letter), we will have established a clear distinction between the real and alternative worlds in relation to the economic situations presented throughout the novel.   Manners and custom duty in the real generally work to maintain order, decorum, and stability.  Wit hin the novel the reality was that blacks had to work for whites on whatever terms were available.  When using manners and customs to depict the real world of the novel, it is evident we are examining an external world based in a society where the white oppressor governs the oppressed black populace.  The economic realities of white land ownership, near-monopoly of technical and business skills and control of financial institutions was in fact the accepted norm (Sowell 48).   When presenting the term fact  - we must account for the insertion of a second model, historical and empirical data in representing the real world of The Color Purple.   As illustrated in the pages of American history books, it is evide... ...ntity with which the novel leaves us uses fairytale explanations of social relations to represent an alternative world.  This fairy tale embraces America for providing the black nation with the right and the opportunity to own land, to participate in the free market, and to profit from it.   Indeed The Color Purple is a fairytale a world in which sexual exploitation can easily be overcome and a world of unlimited access to material well-being (Hooks 223). By emphasizing on the letter dealing with the lynching of Celies father and the last letter of the novel establishing Celies economic independence we have illustrated the real and alternative worlds in relation to the economic prosperity of the black individual.  Thus creating an illusionary imagine world by combining or mediating between the novels social realism and its alternative.