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    The Color Purple

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    Ingrid Rosas Professor Pablo Villa Seminario de la especialidad I 30 August 2013 Expression as a way of emancipation: Black women finding their voice through writing and singing in The Color Purple In The Color Purple‚ black women struggle to have their own place in the community. They suffer from psychological and physical violence such as sexual abuse‚ beatings and insults. They are constantly diminished by white people and their black male peers as well. However‚ in the novel‚ Celie and Shug

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    The Color Purple

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    Full Synopsis Cast & CrewAwardsRelated MoviesBased on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker‚ The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949‚ relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg)‚ a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband‚ sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her innermost thoughts in letter form to her sister Nettie (Akousa Busia)‚ but Albert has been hiding the letters Nettie writes back‚ allowing Celie to assume that

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    in the extremely racially divided south‚ she managed to graduate as the valedictorian of her high school class. She later grew up and became a huge civil rights activist and a phenomenal writer. Zora Neale Hurston wrote a book called “Their Eyes Were Watching God”; it included a variety of different postcolonial aspects. This novel didn’t discuss any of the men’s problems; rather it specifically focused on the women’s desire to be free and genuinely happy within. The main character Janie is mixed‚

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    The Color Purple

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    novel‚ The Color Purple‚ by Alice Walker explores themes that irradiate the human condition: search for faith‚ the nature of human suffering‚ loss of innocence‚ and the exultation of the human spirit. The book delights the reader to a journey where the characters continually discover truth‚ love‚ beauty‚ and answers to the meaning of life. So if asked the question‚ ‘Which‚ out of all the summer reading novels‚ would you read next?’ my most truthful answer would be that I would reread The Color Purple

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    never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy‚” Celie is told by her Pa. So that’s what she does in The Color Purple‚ she writes to God‚ in letters. She does this‚ not only because of the command‚ but also because she is unsure of how to deal with being the subject of rape and abuse. She doesn’t clearly know how to express herself‚ and her letters to God is the only thing that would listen to her anyway. As Celie grows older‚ she gains outside listeners that help her actualize God and herself. And by

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    “You’d bet not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy” (Walker 1). These are the first words written in the novel which embody the struggle that the main character‚ Celie‚ withholds throughout the novel in trying to differentiate her surroundings as good or evil. At this instance‚ Celie had been raped by her own father and is being told by him to never tell anyone but God‚ especially her mother. From this point on‚ Celie begins to write letters only to God‚ pouring her soul into this only form

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    In the story “Their Eyes Were Watching God” Janie developed a friendship with Mrs. Turner a women of color who was very much in love her light skin complexion and features. Mrs. Turner is racist against dark complexion black folks and doesn’t want to look anything like one and only seeks out a friendship with Janie because of her light skinned complexion. One day while speaking in Janie house‚ she shares her beliefs with Janie as she tells her that "Ah can’t stand black niggers.” (141) Mrs. Turner

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    and that it is in a small town. The book begins in an omniscient‚ third-person narrator’s voice‚ and one that is decidedly literary and intellectual‚ full of metaphors‚ figurative language‚ and other poetic devices. Hurston splits the narrative between this voice and long passages of dialogue uninterrupted by any comment from the narrator. These passages are marked by their highly colloquial language‚ colorful folksy aphorisms (“Unless you see de fur‚ a mink skin ain’t no different from a coon hide”)

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    Her first relationship with Logan Killicks helps her realize that she should not settle for him‚ even though he is rich and can support her financially. She learns that she has to fall in love with someone out of her own free will‚ not because her grandma chooses him for her. After the first few months of leaving her alone‚ Logan starts to demand manual labor from Janie and stops treating her with respect: "If Ah kin haul de wood heah and chop it fuh yuh‚ look lak you oughta be able tuh tote it inside

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    unique. But combine one flavor with another and something new is created.” This idea can apply to pieces of literature as well. By interlacing two works‚ their similarities and differences can strengthen the overall takeaway from both novels. At first glance‚ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston couldn’t be more different. Yet‚ after properly dissecting the novels‚ is it apparent that they actually share many thematic

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