Alice Walker, The Color Purple- How optimistic do you find the Color Purple?

How Optimistic do you Find the Color Purple?
<Tab/>This novel is about the growing pains of a young girl who is raped from a young age and sold to the highest bidder. The novel also tackles the way women are used as objects for making babies and looking after and raising the children.
<Tab/>The story is set in the American south where the white man rules and the blacks brought over from Africa, their free homeland, as slaves. Here they are beaten and oppressed by the whites to do their bidding and lead a truly terrible life. The story follows a girl named Celie…