Alice Walker The Color Purple and Jeanette Winterson Oranges are not the Only Fruit comparing religion in both novels. Celie and Jeanette.

This essay concentrates on the theme of religion in two Novels. "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" is a semi-autobiographical novel by Jeanette Winterson, set in the North of England. "The Color Purple" is an epistolary novel by Alice Walker, set in the deep south of America. The epistolary form used by Walker gives us the idea that Celie and Nettie aren't characters but real people. By choosing this literary form, Walker chooses the best …

…believes will have an actual effect on her existence. This could perhaps be because Celie is not able to express her deepest thoughts to anybody who is around her. Also, Celie's letters addressed directly to her sister end with a quite significant word, "Amen", a fact which would seem unimportant on first sight, but that has a complete meaning in its own. Celie has not dismissed her faith by not addressing her letters to God.