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The Color Purple: Movie, Novel Comparison Essay

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The book The Color Purple by Alice Walker and the movie The Color Purple directed by Steven Spielberg share the same story line and characters. The novel and the movie have more similarities than differences yet they still explain the theme of womanhood. The similarities that are shared are really important and have to do mainly with the plot. For example, Celie's stepfather raped her, she had two children because of that, and they were given to Samuel and Corrine. Another similarity is that some of the dialogue is in letter form like the book. The movie has a regular script like any other movie, but when Celie speaks in the background there are addressed as "Dear God".

Differences are harder to find than similar actions and obstacles. The writing of the letters in the film were a little different than in the novel. Celie always wrote to god and received letter from Nettie, but she never wrote back to Nettie. Spielberg decided to totally leave this out and skip over the conversations between Celie and Nettie when Nettie is in Africa. In the novel, Shug asked how Celie pictured her God and the movie doesn't even mention God. I think that God is a big part of the story line because Celie write to God but in the movie she only has faith in God that she will survive.

On a personal note, I really enjoyed both the novel and film. The film was able to give me an idea on what everything looked like. All of the little details and scenes were different that what my mind imagined when I was reading the book. I liked how the movie included scenes that didn't go along with the book because it gave me a bigger outlook on what problems occurred with blacks and women and really kept me interested.

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