Thursday, February 11, 2016
How does the time period affect the characters? Samantha Shipley
A Woman of the South
The time period portrayed in The Color Purple was around the 1930s in the southern regions of America. Now, the rural south seemed to still be coping with racial tension from the Civil war, and from the unruly statements of the Jim Crow Laws. African Americans during this time were treated poorly by those who believed the white race was superior among all other. Celie was indeed an African American in the south at the time the story was narrated; however, not only was she of a different race, but she was a women. Women's suffrage had weighed in as a major issue during the early 1900s. Yes they earned their rights, but the minorities were still left out of the question. This left for the harsh treatment of all characters mentioned in the stories including the men. Not only did racial tensions affect each character, but the Great Depression played a great role in overall moral. Times were difficult even for those of the white race, each forced to become even more poverty- stricken that an African- American in that time period.
Samantha Shipley
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Normally in a story like this, you would find that it would be about women being slaves for white men like it used to be. It's actually about their husbands and even fathers having relationships with their own daughter or someone they don't really want to be with. This book is to just show how much women weren't tolerated in most cases.
ReplyDeleteBailey Druschel ^^^
ReplyDeleteIn this book the racial tension seems to be more involved between the African American men and women rather than between whites and thee African Americans. I also believe you are right about how woman's suffrage plays a role, because it really does. The women in the story still face discrimination.
ReplyDeleteJaimee Martin