A Comparison of the Depiction of Celies Struggle in...

A Comparison of the Depiction of Celies Struggle in Steven Spieldburgs The Color Purple and the Novel Innocence and naivety is portrayed instantly as the initial theme for â€Å"The Color Purple†, in both respects. Spielburg opens with the positive scene of the heroine, Celie, playing wistfully in the fields with her sister, Nettie. Similarly, the novel commences with the words, â€Å"I am fourteen years old. I have always been a good girl†. In both cases, the brief curiosity of youth is quickly driven out, as the reader and the audience are forced to realise†¦show more content†¦The novel elaborates on such events as the death of Celie’s mother, and the continuing abuse from her father. The reader also learns much more of the young girl’s naivety, influenced by explicit vocabulary of her developing pregnancy, and afterbirth with such statements like, â€Å"I got breasts full of milk running down myself†. Such detailed references were not supported in the film production of â€Å"The Color Purple†. Celie talks of her condition in a way by which the reader knows it is all first-hand experience, showing again her age and ingenuousness. Spielburg introduces the necessity and warmth of Celie’s relationship with her sister, Nettie in the opening scene, as the pair play carelessly in the sun. This initial showing of the sister’s closeness differs entirely from the novel’s interpretation. In the novel, the evident bond between the two is emphasised in an entirely sinister approach, â€Å"I see him looking at my little sister. She scared. But I say I’ll take care of you.† Walker and Spielburg have therefore instantly both aimed for very different approaches, when considering the introductory development of the relationship