the abuse patriarchy make a person reshape through the Silent of their Voice The Color Purple by Alice Walker portrays a black woman who starts off in the narrative as a powerless object and who later on becomes a woman with a strong identity. In setting of the novel is in the early 1900‚ Jim Crow is the time. Black women were treated poorly by whites and by the black men within their community. In The Color Purple‚ Walker demonstrates the woman as an object treated badly by whites’ society and
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Set during the early 20th century in the rural south‚ the novel‚ The Color Purple by Alice Walker‚ portrays the life of a poor African American woman named Celie. Since being published in 1982‚ this novel was won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for Fiction‚ but is also considered highly controversial because of the references to sexual abuse and female empowerment. Throughout the book‚ the reader learns from the unexpected events that accumulate Celie’s journey to self-awareness
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run away and tell them want such horrible things they are doing to me!Alphonso always told celie that she better not ever tell‚ that the only person she could tell is God. Celie believed that the best thing for her was to stay silent and try to be invisible. God is the only one who knew the pain celie was growing through‚ because God was the only she could talk to and pour her story too. She is a very tough women and I have so much respect and care for the pain she has been through and not to say
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32 year old chef. Her hair the color of red maple leafs that layer the dew covered ground in fall. Loose day old curls fall to her shoulders‚ pulled back and held up with a yellow ribbon secured with a bow. Smells of light jasmine and fresh linen came from her navy blue and white floral knee length dress that permeates the space around her. Around her neck hangs a loose necklace which holds a round shiny silver pendant engraved with a single initial. Hazel eyes with a misty shade of blue that
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African-American men. Why do you think this is? How might you defend Walker’s treatment of masculinity in TheColor Purple? In Walkers novel ’The Color Purple’ she discusses the issues of racism‚ domestic abuse‚ sexuality‚ tradition‚ gender roles‚ family‚ love and spirituality in the 20th century African American culture‚ drawing on personal experience from her own life and understanding. Through the eyes of Celie‚ a poor‚ barely educated‚ 14 year old black girl‚ we are introduced to this past community and
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As one of the more important characters in Alice Walker’s captivating novel‚ The Color Purple‚ Shug Avery as an individual‚ is probably the most interesting characters of them all. Her character captivates all of the reader’s attention and holds onto it. There are many things about Shug that we‚ as readers of the novel‚ aren’t sure about. Things that we wonder about‚ make assumptions and theories about‚ but will never quite know the answer. Many a things she says and does that makes us wonder. One
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The Color Purple is organized into letters towards God and focuses on the life of the oppressed‚ abused Celie. Celie feels she cannot talk to anyone but God about the events occurring in her life. This is her way of expressing herself when she is unable to speak to anyone about it. c. Tone- I feel the author’s tone towards The Color Purple is dark and gradually becomes more positive when Celie decides to change. In the beginning‚ the author expresses this depressing and dark tone by describing Celie’s
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‘letters of God’. Her personality‚ at least in the beginning‚ is not able to be fully expressed since she is almost like a slave when it comes to her father and her family. But then at the middle and end of the novel‚ she begins to show her personality more as she is not as persecuted and held back. Celie has more of a caring‚ kind‚ and a bit fierce personality. Celie also has a loving personality towards Shug‚ since Shug was one of the people that helped Celie express herself more. In The Color Purple
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No words were able to come out of my mouth. Instead‚ there was a series of questions that came from her. She wanted to know why I was cutting myself;why I hadn’t come to her; and how long had it been going on. I told her that I was unhappy and ashamed of my skin
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Explore the theme of communication between letters 61-70 of ‘The Color Purple’ Throughout the novel‚ Walker emphasizes the ability to express one’s thoughts and feelings through different forms of communication. From the beginning‚ there is an educational barrier between the audience and Celie due to her lack of education. This is increased when Nettie’s letters are introduced‚ as her style of writing. Walker uses the novel’s epistolary (letter-writing) form to emphasize the power of communication
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