IB English A1

The Color Purple shocked me – at first. What with all the vulgarity from the get-go, the language put me off balance, making it uncomfortable to read (especially with Mr. Macknight narrating for the class). Also, the grammar/vocabulary was exceptionally terrible. I understood that it was attempt at embodying a less-educated, black woman [...]

The Colour Purple was a refreshing break to our streak of novels based on well-off, beautiful ladies with charming husbands and an affinity for suicide. It was also a huge shock, opening the book to its first page and going “holy wow, this book is going to be intense”.

First of all, The Colour [...]

The Color Purple is a very good novel indeed. Although the beginning is a little disturbing, the story turns out to be great! It is a very vivid novel that tells of something almost everyone is aware of now: the prejudices that existed (and to a certain extent, still exists) in the US. After reading [...]

When I began The Color Purple I didn’t like it because of the language. I thought difficult language was essential for an English A1 Higher work. But I soon realised that the story, and the questions raised by the story, was the important part. As the language played a vital role in conveying Celie’s [...]

My first impression of this book was pretty bad. The opening was simply disturbing and I didn’t want to read it. But, as we all know, books we read in the IB are not like that from beginning to end. In fact, there was only a small portion which I could not bear. It [...]

The colo(u)r purple was one of the more interesting books we read this year. At first I found it to be quite obscene because of all of the profanity, especially when Pa rapes Celie near the start of the book, but after more abuse and harassment was repeated I got used to it, I [...]

I’ll be quick although this was the best book I have read so far in class. What makes this book so remarkable is not only its epistolary style but the story itself and what it confesses about its characters and the environment in which they interact.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Using letters, Walker was able to depict the [...]

I recognized the book instantly when I laid my eyes on it, for it was the one that my sister had read three years ago. This gave me great hopes as I remember her praising the book, saying what a great read it was. It was with great enthusiasm that I read the first [...]

Someone asked me what I thought about The Color Purple a while back. And I admit, it was hard for me to answer. I figured that the most logical place to start was with the way it was written; that the epistolary form in this case brings so much power. The truth that Celie [...]