How Optimistic do you Find the Color Purple? <Tab/>This novel is about the growing pains of a young girl who is raped from a young age and sold to the highest bidder. The novel also tackles the way women are used as objects for making babies and looking after and raising the children. <Tab/>The story is set in the American south where the white man …showed first 75 words of 1131 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1131 total…confidence as a result. <Tab/>In conclusion this book can be regarded as both positive and negative due to most points having two faces, but I believe is mainly a positive book due to the ending of Nettie meeting with her sister and her owners family round the table of peace as depicted by the late Martin L. King, a very optimistic time for all the black people in the world.