Extra Credit

Watch the movie The Color Purple and answer the following questions.

1. Women are not treated well in The Color Purple. Is their treatment a gender or an ethnic identity issue or both?
2. Is Alice Walker sexist because the men in her story are almost universally mean? Should she have placed more emphasis on race rather than gender?
3. Is it important that Nettie’s exile took place in Africa?
4. Does it add or detract from the story that Celie – an uneducated woman writes sporadically and narrates the novel?