Rewrite the first two letters of 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker as a third person narrative, then write a commentary on your piece.

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Task: Rewrite the first two letters of ‘The Color Purple’ by Alice Walker as a third person narrative, then write a commentary on your piece.

The newborn baby lay on a simple rug spread upon the long carpet of grass. With him were his many sisters and brothers, on for each year of his mothers and fathers marriage and two extra. The frail spring evening sun shone down on them as if peeking over the horizon to see this new face they called ‘Lucious’ one last time before retiring from its position. But the two parental bodies that occupied the house that resided behind the group of youngsters were not, at this time, at all interested in the new born.

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        “Please” said Fonso tugging on the mothers hand

        “Naw” said the mother as if in a half drunken haze “I ain’t gonna. Can’t you see I’m already half dead, an all of these children.”

        The sun eventually left its post and sank into the horizon; the group had also left the scene returning to the house from which they descended earlier that afternoon.

A week later the mother had left the house, she went to Macon to visit her sister’s doctor. In her place as the woman of the house, in charge of preparing the meals, the cleaning and ...

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