The Parable of the Color PurpleAccording to Scholl's article, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, is a parable. In classifying a story as a parable, Scholl establishes that a parable must be a “movement through a realistically improbable sequence of narrative reversals toward a conclusion that defies realistic expectations.” (Scholl, 255) These inversions are very evident throughout the novel and make the conclusion unrealistic. In almost every character there is an ironic inversion of what should happen and what happens. With the protagonist, Celie, he overcomes the difficulties of childhood and marriage to achieve complete happiness. Her childhood is characterized by a father who rapes her and gives away her children. He also gives it to a man known as Mr. ___. He also beats her and doesn't allow her to see her sister Nettie. Celie falls in love with another woman who allows her to start her life over. Shug Avery takes her away from her husband, Mr. ___, and allows her to start her own financially independent life as a pants maker. The only thing Celie lacks to be able to act...