It can be argued that Walker’s purpose for writing her novel is to bring a personal perspective to sexual oppression. The characters are two young African-American sisters. The book delivers its messages through letters written by two characters-Celie and Nettie. The writer rejects the demands of a society marked by indifference to problems of black women. According to Udoette (2014), Walker’s desire to improve the female experience initiated a writing approach that “seeks to foster unity, peace, and progress in the black community in America” (p. By giving a voice to female consciousness in The Color Purple, the writer tries to make women more visible, thereby promoting a dialogue that can serve as an avenue for resolving some of the most important gender issues. Walker is a black female writer who is interested in battling the cultural stereotypes of black women. The writer is especially concerned with African-American women’s self-expression and how it is affected by violence, racism, and gender discrimination in the rural South (Udoette, 2014). Being an important member of the Civil Rights Movement, Walker tries to draw attention to second class citizenship in the United States by bringing the Civil Rights perspective into her book. The author is driven by the desire to combine “the struggle for Black citizens’ civil rights and the struggle for women’s rights in African-American community and family” (Udoette, 2014, p. The book beautifully depicts the realities of life of African-American women living in the southern United States in an era of internalized racism. The Color Purple is an epistolary novel written by a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, Alice Walker, in 1982 (Stanisoara, 2016). Moreover, the paper will explore the organization of the novel, its style, arrangement, and Walker’s purpose for writing it.

It will include the author’s use of rhetorical tools such as ethos, logos, and pathos.

This paper aims to present a rhetorical analysis of The Color Purple. Walker effectively employs the rhetorical appeals of pathos and ethos, making her attempt to convince her audience that the patriarchal system of oppression has to be dismantled extremely successfully. The Color Purple is concerned with the issue of self-expression of African-American women and how it is influenced by suffocating social norms imposed on them and discrimination that was endemic in the rural South (Udoette, 2014). Alice Walker convincingly uses her step-grandmother’s and her own experiences of living in the African-American community to show her readers the ills of the society, which is still rife with violence, racism, and gender discrimination.

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