The Power of one's Voice

The Power of One's Voice

Book: The Color Purple

Author: Alice Walker

Theme Statement: In order to find one's voice, one must be empowered to discover their

own identity.

"They are like white people at home who didn't want colored people to learn" (Letter 62). In one of the letters Nettie wrote Celie, she discussed how Olivia observed the sexists society of the African tribe, Olinka, and compares it to that of the racists and sexists idealism in America. Even though the emancipation of slavery happened hundreds of years before the setting of this novel, many African Americans were enslaved, but no longer by their slave masters, but by their society. At that time many African Americans did not know how to read or write and since standing up against the white man resulted in serve consequences, they could not see how the consequences could