How do The Bluest Eye and The Color Purple relate to the postmodernist era in which they were written? Postmodern writings, like any other period of literature, have some characteristics that make them unique. Just as romanticism loves nature and death, postmodernism also has things it appreciates, such as parody and dark humor. From World War II to the present, postmodern literature has dominated the world. Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye are both postmodern texts and are defined by the way they play with diction and parody, change narrative elements, and create a divide in social culture. The characters portrayed in Alice Walker's The Color Purple are mostly ignorant and use distorted language that is unique to the characters portrayed; in other words, Walker plays with language. When the narrator's stepson asks for advice on how to make his wife listen to him, he is told, "Well, how are you going to decide? Wives are like children. You have to let them know who's got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sounding beat” (Walker 42). The words used when Mr. ___ speaks are uneducated, and postmodernist writers liked to manipulate the words spoken by their characters to enhance the character's personality. In this case, because he is a black man, he is stupid and ignorant in the eyes of society and that is how his words like "spectre" portray him. On another occasion, Shrug, who is Celie's husband's lover, is trying to apologize for how she acted when she first met Celie. For example, he uses terrible grammar such as "I treated you so badly. As if you were a servant[...]" (Walker 117). From this way of speaking Shrug is seen as an uneducated black woman like most of the characters. His speech pattern in writing gives the reader an image in his head that he cannot