Three Messages in The Color Purple: Standing Up‚ Helping Others and Taking Charge The novel‚ The Color Purple is so important. It is all about growth‚ and change‚ and making a difference. Sofia‚ Shug‚ and Celie are all making a difference in the world‚ even though they don’t know it. These courageous women are standing up for each other‚ taking control and trying to make the world a better place. Sofia stands up for herself‚ no matter what‚ Shug Avery helps out someone in desperate need‚ and Celie
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Examples of journeys from the novel “The Color Purple” and the song “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” portray the protagonists making certain choices when they encounter hardships in their journey through life. “The Color Purple” is an epistolary novel by Alice Walker exploring the life of Celie through letters to God and her sister Nettie. Celie’s first challenge in the story is enduring a very tough childhood in the form of rape and abuse from her stepfather‚ Pa. She writes to God that “He never had
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Miguel Hernandez @le310jay Period 1 4/22/13 Green Angel This past March I read an amazing book entitled Green Angel. The author of Green Angel is Alice Hoffman. She is a really good writer by the way. This is a fictional novel. The genre is a mixture of adventure‚ romance and drama. I started reading this book in the beginning of March and finished it on March 23rd. This book was trully an amazing novel. So you as the reader may have a feel of what the book is about‚ I will now give you
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while Alice is walking in the forest he explains to her that everyone in wonderland is mad even Alice‚ which is why she is there. Alice did not agree with the Cheshire-Cat but continued on her way to see the March Hare anyways. Being mad or crazy does not always make a person bad. In fact the Cheshire-Cat was right‚ all the people in Wonderland were indeed mad and they were all there for that reason. In every classic story there are good characters versus bad characters. In the book‚ Alice in Wonderland
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The Lovely Bones Review Dear Mr. English Department Chair‚ It has been brought to my attention that the “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold has been put on the Banned/Challenged list of books 2013 in certain libraries. If you aren’t familiar with this text‚ it is about a 14 year old girl‚ Susie Salmon‚ living in Pennsylvania who is asked by her serial killer neighbor to check out his underground cove where he makes doll houses. The fact that he is a serial killer is unbeknownst to her so she agrees
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A comparison of the ways that the dead affect the living in the novels Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. In the novels that I have chosen to study‚ several themes are prominent in both. Both novels deal with a brutal murder of a young female‚ and the impact surrounding her death. They also deal with the idea of the dead‚ directly or indirectly communicating with the living. The novels address the theory that ‘ghosts’ cannot move onto the next life until they have resolved
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Healing and liberation through bonding and sisterhood Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is about African-American women in America during the early twentieth century. During this time‚ gender stereotypes were prevalent‚ women were not only oppressed by white males‚ but by black males too. At the end of the book‚ women stand up for themselves‚ fighting against all odds to break free of the yoke of oppression. Walker narrates how Celie grew up being sexually abused by her stepfather‚ Alphonso. As an
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There is a lesson that can be learned about differentiating between fantasy and reality from the two short stories "Everyday Use‚" written by Alice Walker‚ and "Miss Brill‚" written by Katherine Mansfield. Dee and Miss Brill both lived in a fantasy world. In the story‚ "Everyday Use‚" Mama was a big-boned woman with work-worn hands. Mama’s extra weight would help insulate her during the winter months. Maggie‚ her daughter‚ was rather plain and simple. She had burn scars all over her body and walked
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Report and Review Psychology Introduction Go Ask Alice is a 1971 book about the life of a troubled teenage girl. The book continues its claim to be the actual diary of an anonymous teenage girl who became addicted to drugs. Beatrice Sparks is listed as the author of the book by the U.S. Copyright Office. The novel‚ whose title was taken from a line in the Grace Slick‚ penned Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit"‚ "go ask Alice/when she’s ten feet tall"‚ is presented as an anti-drug testimonial
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Hard Road of Adolescence Reading through the novel‚ Go Ask Alice‚ finding out all of the unbelievable‚ yet true‚ experiences and feelings of Alice is quite shocking. No matter how shocking they may seem‚ you can very easily relate those experiences and feelings to those of a typical day-in and day-out teenager. Those characteristics being loneliness‚ a generation gap‚ and defiance. At the beginning of the novel‚ Alice finds herself to be very lonely. As like other teenagers‚ she goes
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