The Color Purple - More Than Meets the Eye The bitter legacy of American race relations - birthed by slavery, worsened by segregation and institutionalized by culture - is not without hope, a radiant sense that, within the collective rage of an entire group's forced servitude, there is also the strength - the heroism and personal triumph, if you will - to stand squarely upon the soil and proclaim, "No more!" Alice Walker, a gifted …showed first 75 words of 797 total…

…showed last 75 words of 797 total…can achieve this type of momentum. Spielberg aspires for this sense of greatness; Walker achieves it. WORK CITED The Color Purple. Dir. Steven Spielberg. With Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, and Rae Chong. Warner Bros., 1985. Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York: Harcourt, 1982. Samway, Patrick. "The Color Purple" Suntimes. 75.3 (1985): 3 p. EBSCO. Sprague Library, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL < http://www.suntimes.com/samway/samway_reviews/1985/12/33300.html>