Shannon O'Connor Theme: The Color Purple

The theme in the Color Purple was is to stand up for yourself and that its okay to ask for help and opinions. In the beginning of the book Celie would just take the abuse from almost everyone and the only "person" she told was her diary to God. It was a very powerful message and was made clear in certain scenes, but it was not extremely obvious throughout the book. This theme and is a good thing to know throughout your life, if you are in a situation that you don't like, don't take it, fight back. “I don’t say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don’t fight, I stay where I’m told. But I’m alive.” (22) “You ast yourself one question, it lead to fifteen. I start to wonder why us need love. Why us suffer. Why us black. Why us men and women. Where do children really come from. It didn’t take long to realize I didn’t hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don’t mean nothing if you don’t ast why you here, period.” (289-290)