Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and the two letters in The Color Purple

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and the two letters in The blazon PurpleThe Chapter Joshua in Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and the twoletters in The Color Purple, where Sofia returns and later getsbrutally punished for her confrontation, twain explore fundamentalissues that characterize a lot of the essence of both novels as awhole. At the heart of both of these two sections is the idea of fight for the justness and facing the consequences. Although Orangesare non the Only Fruit is written in a retrospective light and TheColor Purple in informal and consecutively in chronological order,there are similarities within the two styles, they use similartechniques in getting across certain issues. The novels use the massaround Jeanette and Celie to convey oppression and hope.Janets church people and mother have found out about her unnaturalpassions for Melanie. To them their opinion at its wrongs andsinfulness is not opinion but fact. Thus for Janets own benefitthey lock her up with no food or light, inflicting an exorcism on her.They believe she is demon feature and deficiency to rid her of the evil.In this period of confinement, Jeanette questions her sexuality andits wrongs. She states Can cheat really belong to the demon. Sherealizes that her feelings are not from external influences, butrather from herself. - If they want to get at my demon theyll haveto get me. She is controlled with the idea of the church, and at thesame time the naturalness she feels with the feelings Demons areevil, arent they? She then goes on to say scarce in the Bible youkeep getting driven out. - Dont believe all you read. This initself is addressing the idea of oppression from the chu... ...d this givesway to the proceedings in the novel as a whole. In The Color Purple,we are left with Celie caring for Sofia who has been so brutally tothe ground. Sofia was imprisoned and left to face the circumstancesfor standing up for what is right. She is thus a heroine in her ownright an d is an example for Celie. Jeanette was imprisoned (exorcism)and came out of it knowing that she was going to put up a fight forher own truth and to face the circumstances.In Oranges are Not the Only Fruit as a whole, the Joshua sectionstands for truth and Jeanette decides to fight and this indicates thefuture progression of the novel. In The Color Purple, Celie sees truthbeing fought for and the result of this fight. These gives herdetermination and if can fight like that, she can at least fightagainst male patriarchal Oppression and her love for Slug.