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    The Color Purple by Alice Walker Before the movie‚ The Color Purple was picked up by director Steven Spielberg‚ first

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    Men feel the need to incite a sense of dominance over submissive women. Alice Walker utilises Albert and Harpo to depict abusive and indecisive qualities displayed by men in her highly acclaimed novel‚ The Color Purple. Albert is initially introduced as this mysterious man who has taken interest in the protagonist Celie’s‚ little sister Nettie. He is initially referred to as “Mr ___” (4) throughout most of the novel to symbolise Celie’s indifference towards him and her refusal to accept their marriage

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    10 Nov. 2012 Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Final In each novel there are characters that have to accomplish quests in order to reach self realization and to show the development of this particular character. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Zora Neale Hurston makes good uses of literary devices like personification‚ figurative language‚ and tone to help enhance the development of Janie’s character to reach self realization. In Their Eyes Were Watching God it took a while for Janie

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    Walker’s use of language to present Celie’s impression of Shug. Examine how the manipulation of language contributes to our understanding of the significance of Shug to Celie. Shug’s significance to Celie plays a pivotal role in the novel ‘The Color Purple. Through Walker’s use of language‚ we understand the importance of this significance‚ which helps to develop Celie’s character throughout and is already prominent in letter 22. Firstly‚ we understand that Shug’s arrival excites Celie a lot and

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    their growth and development. The journey results in a different perspective‚ or changes values and attitudes. The powerful film‚ ‘The Color Purple’ (1985) directed by Steven Spielberg explores these concepts and shapes the viewer’s understanding of the inner journey as a process of change. These ideas are also deplicted in Ian Mudie’s poem “My Father Began as a God”‚ and in the narrative titled “Evolution” by Kathy Helidoniotis. It is clear through these texts that an inner journey can be fraught

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    The Color Purple‚ written by Alice Walker‚ is a novel that challenges the roles made for women in a patriarchal society. Throughout Walker’s novel‚ the strong-willed female characters create a bond to protest male dominance. Ultimately‚ they become independent and powerful without the baneful men that degrade them. Through this bond of sisterhood‚ these female characters challenge social norms‚ and stand strong against violent male paramount. When these characters bend and break social norms and

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    high gear working to improve the lives of women- white gender normative straight women that is. Women who did not fit that mode were ignored because the movement did not work towards reshaping our country to remove the patriarchal oppression but toward elevating the above mentioned women toward a level of privilege much like men’s. In Alice Walker’s book‚ The Color Purple‚ Celie does not belong in the group of privileged women‚ but society’s ingrained bigotry has become internalized within her. In

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    Hurston was proud of her culture and upbringing and wanted to glorify it. As to where Wright only remembered the negative aspects of his upbringing and wanted to showcase the negative aspects. This caused a problem when Hurston wrote‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ because Wright believed that it was written to please the white audience rather than telling the truth behind the racism that occurred. While this may be true‚ there is a good reason as to why she decided not to write in the negative manner

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    True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way‚ even the workforce‚ regardless of race‚ gender‚ faith‚ ethnicity - or political ideology.In Their Eyes Were Watching G-d‚ by Zora Neale Hurston‚ Janie marries three men. The first marriage is with Logan‚ a man her nana predetermined for her to marry. Her second marriage is with a man named Jody‚ or Joe Sparks‚ who she thinks is on his way to a “richer life‚” yet‚ instead it becomes a union where she is deprived of her “voice.” Both

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    Proposal for delivery of culturally competent services "The Color Purple" Team D BSHS/422 April 23‚ 2012 Jennifer Brennan Proposal for delivery of culturally competent services "The Color Purple" The Color Purple is a story set in the 1900s about an African American Culture of people who endured hardships involving sexual and physical abuse‚ and gender related oppression‚ at a time when Black people were free yet still feared and segregated. The main characters of the story are: Celie

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