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    The gender role of African Americans has been discussed by a number of historians and investigated through different approaches to analyze their experiences. The gender role in the African American literature has been explored in a way to the role of women viewed by the African American men and women. The study of gender role shows that the women’s participation in the works outside the home increased dramatically during the 1940s. The gender role for women began to shift right during the World War

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    Alice Walker’s The Color Purple From reading the extract from The Color Purple‚ the reader is shocked almost straight away from how the character/narrator (who in this case is the author Alice Walker) is treated and brought up by her father. The way in which the story is told is in the form of letters and a kind of diary addressed to god as she is told "You better not tell anybody but god it’ll kill your mammy". The reader can almost sense that this was written and was never expected to be

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    Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and The Color Purple by Alice Walker prove this quote true. Throughout The Lovely Bones‚ a family struggles with the dreadful murder and rape of a family member. The book demonstrates how the family only got stronger with the passage of time. Their success in moving forward in life regardless of their encounter with such an evil act emphasizes the victory of good over evil. In addition to The Lovely Bones‚ the book The Color Purple clearly displays the brutality two sisters

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    powerful; you just need to know how to use your power appropriately. I agree with this quote because most people that are great are not the strongest. Instead they use what they have to become great. The quote can be seen in The Color Purple by Alice Walker. In The Color Purple‚ the protagonist Celie lives through a lot of conflict. For most of her life‚ she has been beaten by her stepfather and Mr.____. Her stepfather would beat her “cause he say I winked at a boy in church.” (Walker 5) Mr.____

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    Throughout Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple the character Albert experiences the most change in moral development. The change that Albert experiences is caused by other characters. Albert undergoes change through change occurring to Celie in her views of herself. Celie tells Shug Avery that she is beaten by Albert "for being me and not you"(Walker 75). Albert treats her badly for being a women and not thinking more highly of herself. Whenever she’s called ugly she just listens to it

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    misery‚ become apart of life whether you’re willing to accept it or not. For those who have accepted such troubles‚ have also learned to cope with it one way or another. Antoinette’s character in "Wide Sargasso Sea" and Celie’s character in "The Color Purple" have both experienced problems with depression‚ loneliness‚ violence‚ inferiority‚ racism‚ and self-identity. It is important for such characters as Antoinette and Celie to express their emotions and have a method of working out there issues.

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    There is nothing left of the skull‚ all of the humanity has been ripped out of the skull. Nothing lays there except for bone. Not only does Sheers hint at death but also the idea of life. When we think of birds and eggs we think of life and nurturing. Once the soldiers go to battle this is taken away from them‚ they’re never going to be able to have their own children. The possibilities to new life are gone. Not only did the men die as a country‚ but as a team too. All of the soldiers are ‘all mimicked

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    Maya Kennedy  10/24/14  English AP      The Color Purple   by:Alice Walker    Genre:   ● Epistolary novel‚ confessional novel  Historical Text:   ● By this time in history slavery was long outlawed but its effects were still felt  heavily by those African Americans still living in the southern United States.  Segregation was imposed strictly‚ and entire black populations lived “isolated  from white society”. They “had to sit in separate parts of movie houses‚ drink out  of separate fountains‚ and could not eat at white lunch counters”

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    I chose the movie The Color Purple because the story is centered on the life of African-American women‚ who experienced issues with family bonding. This young lady was faced with many hardship and struggles that began in the home with her family. The storyline behind how this young girl was sexually and mentally abused by her father. The abuse continued later on when she was forced to marry an older man with young children of his own. Throughout her struggles with self-worth and her own identity

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    Shug Avery‚ a main character in The Color Purple‚ is a promiscuous‚ attentive‚ independent woman. None of these words‚ however‚ can describe the protagonist Celie. Shug was a role model for Celie; she taught Celie that she didn’t have to put up with being taken advantage of and that love and sex were real and could be enjoyable. All the lessons that Shug taught Celie were meant to help her new best friend see that her life was not what it should be. Celie was in an abusive relationship with

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