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    Violence is a critical issue which is surprisingly still developing throughout the earth today. Violence is a problem which separates everybody. In The Color Purple‚ violence is one of the active themes in the novel. One of the main characters‚ Celie‚ lives a cruel‚ disgusting life during the beginning of the novel. Although Celie is being abused and hurt every day‚ she learns to overcome it and become stronger. Once the reader discovers that Celie had been first sexually assaulted at the age of

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    Robinson English 10A December 27th‚ 2017 The Bluest Eye vs. The Color Purple In this essay I will be comparing in contrasting Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye”‚ and Alice Walker’s “ The Color Purple”. Pecola and Celie are two very similar people. These two characters were mistreated in many ways. Toni Morrison and Alice Walker really shined the light on how wrong use women were treated and they didn’t sugarcoat anything about it. These two women were abused by their fathers‚ lost their children‚ and really

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    The Liberation Of Black Women’s In Color Purple by Alice Walker On October 29st 2012‚ The Color Purple thoroughly focuses on a life of Celie‚ an African American woman who is struggling to develop her sense of selfhood. As a black woman growing up in the Deep South during the 1940s‚ Celie has gone through many difficulties before she could establish herself as an independent woman. All through the story‚ Celie is presented at the very bottom of the social hierarchy. At the same time with being

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    The Color Purple By Alice Walker‚ and the movie The Color Purple‚ directed by Steve Spielberg‚ are stories about love and the survival between two sisters. The obstacles that the sisters have to face are very life risking Primary Differences:  1. Characters: With regards to the basic turns of the plot‚ the film is pretty faithful to the novel. However‚ when it comes to the complexities of the characters‚ the film sells the novel short. The film presents things in a very black and white manner

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    English 102.013 11/13/09 The Power of a Female Relationship In the book The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker shows us different themes in the book. The one theme that stood out the most was the relationship between the sisters and friends that met along the way. Reading this book I have seen different types of relationships such as‚ motherly‚ sisterly‚ and also womanly. Walker refers to the relationship between Cecile and Nettie as a motherly relationship because when Cecile’s mother dies she feels

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    writing‚ she discovers her true nature and the woman that she was supposed to be in her own life. Alice Walker writes her story‚ The Color Purple‚ as an epistolary novel. An epistolary novel is a book that is in the form of letters‚ written by the main character. In this case‚ it is written by Celie‚ the main character who is living in Georgia in the 1930’s.

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    the narrative and structure of the novels Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and The Color Purple? Jeanette Winterson and Alice Walker show realism and the development and shape of their character throughout the novels. Through their main characters‚ they achieve this with their use of narrative and structure. Jeanette from Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and Celie from The Color Purple are two very different‚ young women who have struggled through their lives. Jeanette is a young‚ white girl from England

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    and social equality of men and women. Women’s suffrage and feminism were attempts to gain freedom‚ equality‚ and rights. From past events/history‚ evidence has proven to reveal/display that World war 2 did not truly advance women’s rights. Women gained more job positions‚ but they were temporary. They received a lower pay‚ and equal pay wasn’t solved until far after ww2. World war one was more influential‚ as well as the 20’s‚ 30’s and post ww2. Before world war 2‚ women were seen as stay at home mothers/housewives

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    In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple‚ many emotions are evoked within the story. Many themes and character qualities are suggested through the use of symbolism. One of the most prominent symbols utilized within this story is the allegory of color. Walker uses different colors to illustrate various moods and the personality themes of certain characters. One may find it interesting to discover that these colors are sentiments about the way people in the novel are represented. In the story‚ Celie

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    What’s Black‚ White‚ and The Color Purple? “First he put his thing up against my hip and sort of wiggle it around. Then he grab hold my titties. Then he push his thing inside my pussy. When that hurt‚ I cry. He start to choke me‚ saying You better shut up and get used to it.”(Walker 1). If you as a parent took The Color Purple off the shelves and just opened the book you would begin by reading the quote above. As a parent who just opens the book and reads the first two pages‚ already‚ based

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