Alice Walker

The writer of the book "The Color Purple", Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in the small rural town of Eatonton, Georgia. She was the daughter of Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Tallulah Grant, two sharecroppers. She had seven older siblings. Her parents’ experiences with the oppressive sharecropping system and the racism of the American South were the inspiration for her writing. Later in Atlanta, she became active in the African-American civil rights movement. Walker herself is an example of someone that tries to improve the situation for black people. She struggled trough out her life with depression and she was a subject to racism. But by binding together with other women that wanted to change the situation for black people in America she made a change. She wrote books and inspired more than thousand people across the world. In her book she tries to create a character, Celie, that is in many ways similar to herself. They both struggled in the beginning with their feelings and expressing them, they wanted to make a change but didn't know how until they both were surrounded by the right people that inspired them. They could change their situation by binding together.