How Did The Color Purple Change

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The movie The Color Purple is a great example of what life was like for African Americans men and women and what they put up with. Sofia a character from The Color Purple changed her actions many times throughout the movie. Sofia was first feisty, strong, and acted like a leader at sometimes and then she totally changed to submissive and then back a small part to what she was originally. She changes so many times because of the people around her pushing her to do different thing. Sofia also changes because of her race and people will beat and do other things to her to if she does not obey to what she is supposed to do causing her self-esteem to go down.

First, Sofia was strong, feisty, and some would say abusive. In the time period she lived in the early 1900s, African Americans especially women were not on top. African American women were normally like slaves and working for white or African American men. Sofia didn’t …show more content…

It was like somebody flipped a switch and she totally turned off. When she was punched in the face she got a nasty black eye and her eye never really recovered fully. Sofia went from mean to silent, not even mean to nice, just silent. Sofia would never talk unless she was talked to and that was only “Yes, ma’am or Yes, sir.” Sofia was sent to jail for her sassing the majors wife and she had her friend take her kids home so they did not see anything that was happening to their mother. The real reason Sofia went to jail was because her being an African American woman, and talking so rude to a white person was not accepted let alone saying that to the mayor’s wife. After she did that she went to jail and eventually ended up working for the mayor’s family. Sofia was the mayor’s family’s slave and she did what they told her to do. Sofia was completely changed to submissive, she was not her normal mean or aggressive self after all of this happened but she will turn around just a little

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