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Celie’s letters to God actually is invalid, because they are “undeliverable, in accessible and thus unreadable to the addressee”.(Kai-ling ，70) Celie is confined to “an epistolary enclosure ”.(Kai-ling ，70) The switch of the addressee from God to Nettie indicates an important moment in Celie’s development. Celie changes from enclosure to expansion, accomplishing her awakening progress. Oral Mode As Perry says, “epistolary structure dwells on responses to events rather than on the events themselves.”(68) Then, it is often that epistolary novels are “obsessed with its oral mode.”(Altman, 135) Black dialect “Finally he leave her alone.”(P1) “My mama dead.”(P3) “She ast me about the first whose it is?”(P3) “Sometime he still be looking at Nettie, but I always git in his light.”(P6) “Her use of these features of black speech not only identifies the race and class of the protagonist but also illustrates the extent to which both racism and sexism characterize or are a part of language used by Afro-Americans and , therefore, shape their cultural and social perspectives.”(Johnson ，58) Bibliography Altman, Janet Gurkin. Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1992. Campbell, Elizabeth. “Re-visions, Re-flections, Re-creations: Epistolarity in Novels by Contemporary Women”. Twentieth Century Literature. Fall(v41 n3), 1995. Johnson, Cheryl Lynn. A Womenist Way of Speaking: an analysis of language use in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple”, Toni Morrison’s “Tar Baby” and Gloria Naylor’s “The Women of Breuster Place”. Michigan: The University of Michigan. 1988. Kai-ling, Liu. The Unsent Unanswered Letter in Epistolary Fiction by Modern Women Writers of Color. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University. 1994 Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York: Pocket Books. 1985 Wall, Wendy. Lettered Bodies and Corporeal Texts in “The Color Purple”. 1988 Zhou, Ping. Focalization Theory and the Epistolary Novel: A Narrative Analysis of The Color Purple. Netherlands: