Everyone Has A Little Good In Them

Everyone Has A Little Good In Them


Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple shows a wide range of personality traits and values held by black men in the early 1900s in the Southern United States. Many readers and critics have said that the book unfairly depicts men, but there is proof that Alice Walker does not have that intention, and the portrayal is historically accurate. In the novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker shows men as being abusive and evil, yet still having a heart and soul. The novel tells about an evil man, referred to only as Mr. ; it tells about an emotionally unstable man named Harpo; and it tells about a man who is thought of as perfect, as in the character named Jack. Alice Walker covers all grounds when depicting the way men were in the 1900s, although many people see her book as representing them very unfairly.

A character in the novel who is shown to be the most cruel, heartless man in the whole story is known only as Mr. ...