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A 7 page paper which discusses the novel and film The Color Purple. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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seen in a film in the same way they are perceived in a book. As such the intent, the message, or the ultimate perception of the story will change in
some way as it moves from the written format to the big screen. This is the case with the novel/film The Color Purple. It is a novel written by Alice
Walker and a film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg. The following paper examines critical responses to both, combined and otherwise, and discusses how the novel and film compare and
contrast. The essay ultimately claims that although the two are different in important ways they are equally as powerful, both getting primarily the same message across. The Color
Purple: Novel and Film One of the most crucial elements of the novel that cannot really be presented, and is not presented to any great extent in the film, involves
Celies writing to God and her telling of her tale through such letters to God. And, as the story develops Celie writes to her sister Nettie. Throughout the novel Celie
is a writer, conveying her fears and emotions and dire reality through writing. In the novel this writing to God primarily takes place because her (assumed) father, when he raped
her, told her, "You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy (1)" which resulted in her writing letters that "are cast with a fearful hue" (Hankinson
320). It is perhaps the only way she can express herself. But, in the film this is not really the case, as noted in the following critical analysis: "As the
medium of film wouldn?t allow someone to write all the time Alice Walker developed a visionary version of Celie?s conversation with God. As Ms. Walker remarks: Though it hurt to
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