The Color Purple

The Color Purple written by Alice Walker is an outstanding novel. It has many life lessons that you can learn from. It it very detailed and explains every situation so you could not be lost. I love the way Celie began to stand up for herself and stepped out of the general women role. This showed that Celie  is a very strong women. I would choose the book over the movie because you wouldn’t get the same excitement and specific details as if you just watched the movie. This is a classic and one of the best African American literature known to man.

The Color Purple

There are many differences between the book and the novel of The Color Purple written by Alice Walker. In the book Celie and Shug have a very intimate relationship but as in the movie it is very dormant which would make the person that is watching think there was nothing between them. The movie is more emotional but does not go into detail which the novel does. Also the novel is strictly letters to God which in the movie she doesn’t at all. In the book Shug Avery was described as a very dark woman but in the movie she is brown skin . Also in the movie it lacked to the show the transformation of Mister but in the book he changed to be another type of man . The movie is lacking key details and scenes that the book has that helps the reader get a better understanding of the situation.

With all the differences between the book and the novel they have a couple similarities. A similarity in the book and movie is that Celie’s father raped her. She had two kids and they are given away to a family that couldn’t have kids.  Womanhood is also in the novel and the movie and it showed through   Celie. In both the novel and the movie the viewer could gain many lessons from it . I feel as if the novel was better because it provided more details than the movie .