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The Color Purple  --By Alice Walker Introduction Main Characters Symbolism Epistolary Writing Style The Female Bonding Alice Walker is an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Alice Walker‘s creative vision is rooted in the economic hardship, racial terrorism, and folk wisdom of African American life and culture, particularly in the rural South. Her writing explores multidimensional(多面的)kinship among women, among men and women, among humans and animals, and embraces the redemptive(救赎的）power of social, spiritual and political revolution. Introduction Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, the youngest of eight children. Her father, who was, in her words, wonderful at math but a terrible farmer, earned only $300 a year from sharecropping and dairy farming, while her mother supplemented the family income by working as a maid. Living under Jim Crow Laws, Walkers mother had struggled with landlords who expected the children of black sharecroppers to work in the fields at a young age. When she was four years old, Alice was enrolled in the first grade, a year ahead of schedule. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted (颁布)between 1876 and 1965. They mandated（批准）de jure（根据法律的） racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly separate but equal status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. In 1952, Walker was accidentally wounded in the right eye by a shot from a BB gun fired by one of her brothers. Then she was permanently blind in that eye, felt like an outcast and she turned for solace [s?l?s] to reading and writing poetry. She subsequently became valedictorian（作告别演说者）and was voted most-popular girl, as well as queen of her senior class, sh