In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, she portrays all the women with different characteristics. Célie is shy and timid at first, believing herself to be ugly, but in the end she overcomes her fears and gains confidence. Sofia is a strong-willed woman, who doesn't let anything bother her or get the better of her. Shug Avery is confident in herself and although she may seem indifferent, she is underneath a kind person. Throughout her life, Alice Walker has experienced so much and her way of dealing with these things is to write about them. In The Color Purple, Alice Walker invested facets of her life in the main female characters. At the age of eight, Alice Walker began writing and said: "With my family, I had to hide things and I had to remember a lot of things. my mind. Later that same year, Alice was shot in the eye with a BB gun bullet which blinded her, scarring and blinding that same eye. Because of her eye, she felt ugly, became shy, and often reacted to statements that were not meant to be insulting. I feel like Alice Walker based the character of Celie on this period of her life. In the book, Celie is repeatedly told that she is ugly and that she is not good enough. Celie is afraid of the cruelty that others have imposed on her and she is shy and avoids conflict. Alice Walker once said, “What the mind does not understand, it either worships or fears.” » Celie doesn't understand why others treat her harshly, so she is always afraid of them. It seems that once we understand what brings us down, it only empowers us. In the conclusion of the book, Célie finally overcomes her fears and announces to Albert that she is leaving him. Just like Celie, Alice Walker eventually overcame...... middle of paper... nothing? The ability to have someone to tell your story to is very important. He said: “I was here. Maybe I'll be sold tomorrow. But you know I was there.' » With each story she tells, Alice Walker inserts a little piece of herself into the fabric of the story. That's one of the things about Alice Walker that makes her work so important, because her stories don't sound like something someone just made up. She writes her books so you understand what life was like for her, which makes her stories even more relatable. -times-if-the-river-is-dry-can-you-be-all-wet.html http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/story.html http://www.brainyquote.com /quotes/quotes/a/alicewalke146802.html http://www.poemhunter.com/alice-walker/biography/ http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alicewalke382390.html