Realism is often represented by writers like Alice Walker. Her poems, essays, short stories, and novels portray her views on feminism and civil rights while providing a realist approach that has provoked readers for many years. Her horrific and brutally honest writing style made the world see a different view of minority women and allowed her to receive the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple ("Alice Walker"). She lived a life of poverty and racial discrimination, which led her to become an opinionated feminist. Walker's realistic writing style portrays her dark upbringing and feminist views; in her work The Color Purple, she shows aspects of growing up as a minority woman and the frequency of racial discrimination. Walker's direct and honest writings allow her to be classified as a realist writer. Realism originated in 19th century France and extended into the early 20th century. It is characterized by writing in which "life is described without any idealization or romantic subjectivity" (History of Writers). Instead of romanticizing, as many other authors have done, this type of writing is intended to portray things as they truly are; sometimes this includes: intense images, offensive speech, and morally unjust topics. Walker used this form of writing to show audiences what life was like in the South, which makes many readers feel remorse for the nation's unjust past. In his novel, The Color Purple, Walker makes readers question everything in their lives; uses the incestuous relationships between the protagonist, Celie, and her father to scare readers and open their eyes to what has happened in American history. Incestuous relationships between father and daughter were common in the early 1900s. In...... middle of paper......wareness-color-viola-alice-walker/>.Bobo, Jacqueline. “JUMP CUTA CONTEMPORARY MEDIA REVIEW.” Black women's responses to Jacqueline Bobo's "The Color Purple." Np, 28 February 1988. Web. 30 Apr.2014. Fiori, R. Barri. Sex crimes, predators, perpetrators, prostitutes, and victims: An examination of sexual crime and victimization. Springfield, Illinois: CC Thomas, 2001. Print.Walker, Alice. The Color Purple: A Novel. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Print. Whitted, Qiana. "Alice Walker (born 1944)." New Encyclopedia of Georgia. 26 November 2013. Web. 02 May "History of writers". History of writers. Np, nd Web. May 6 2014. .