Literary Analysis 3.

1. The novel, "The Color Purple" it begins with a young girl named Celie describing her life situations. She begins by explaining how her father is raping her and she has his children, but he kills them and steals them. Soon comes a man named Mr. ____ who in hopes of marrying Nettie who is Celie's sister. Their father forbids Nettie to marry him and instead arranges Celie to marry him without her desire to. Throughout the story she explains how she is continuously abused and unhappy. Shug Avery becomes one of Celie's closest friends who was also Mr. ____'s lover. Nettie soon leaves and Celie does not hear from her in a long time that she believes Nettie is dead. Soon she finds letters from Nettie that Mr. ____ has been hiding from her.

2. The theme of this novel is to have freedom. There are many things that are going to have people trapped, but it is up to them to get out of those horrible situations because there is a way out.

3. The tone of this novel is very somber. In describing the different types of situations such as Celie being raped, her having to marry Mr. ____, and her having to stand up for herself. These situations how serious the problems in her life are and how they are impacting her tremendously.

4. Different literary elements which helped me understand the theme and the tone of this novel is style (her writing in the way of a letter), diction (her misspelling shows how little knowledge she has of things), and symbols (her writing to God shows her faith in gaining her freedom).