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    Language in Color Purple

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    How does Walker use language in the book "The Color Purple"?​ The book "The Color Purple" was written by Alice Walker and it is an epistolary novel. It narrates a story about a black female life back in the 1930s in the southern United States. The Color Purple is composed of letters written to God and it briefly summarize the story and hardship of the main character Celie. Alice Walker used very different styles of language for different characters in the book‚ which are Celie and Nettie. The

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    journey takes place when an individual experiences events or is involved in relationships which prompt them to review 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

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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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    The Color Purple (1985) Quotes Celie: [on leaving the farm in Shug’s car‚ shouting to Albert] I’m poor‚ black‚ I might even be ugly‚ but dear God‚ I’m here. I’m here. Celie: [lunging towards Albert with a knife] I curse you. Until you do right by me everything you think about is gonna crumble! Sofia: Don’t do it Mrs. Celie. Don’t trade places with what I been through. Shug: Come on‚ Celie‚ let’s go to the car. Sofia: He ain’t worth it‚ he ain’t worth it. Albert: Who you think you is? You can

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    Color Purple Psychology

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    The Color Purple movie‚ depicted from a novel of the same title by Alice Walker‚ is a strong and encouraging movie set in 1930s in the countryside of Georgia. The movie centers around a young teenage girl named Celie. Celie is an uneducated African-American girl‚ who out of despair began writing letters to God after she was physically abused and raped by her father. She then becomes pregnant‚ but her father takes her babies away from her and then coerced into marrying an abusive man‚ Albert‚ whom

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    The Color Purple Analysis

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    Throughout The Color Purple‚ and Memoirs of a Geisha‚ Alice Walker and Arthur Golden respectively present the struggle individuals face to establish self-empowerment within oppressive societies. Both authors explore the degrading effects that marital relationships have on individuals by setting their texts in a society where mostly everyone conforms to the presented social expectations that women cannot depend on themselves. It is also made apparent by Walker and Golden that due to gender stereotypes

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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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    Celie In The Color Purple

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    The Development of Celie`s personality due to the Impact of other Women in the Novel The Color Purple “I`m pore‚ I`m black‚ I may be ugly and I can`t cook‚ a voice say to everything listening. But I`m here.” (p. 210) In the beginning of the book “The Color Purple”‚ the protagonist‚ Celie‚ is a ruined desperate woman. Her sole has been injured by her father`s violence‚ endless rules and orders‚ which she is forced to follow and ignorant indifferent people‚ who never show any concern for her

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    Color Purple Patriarchy

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    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 the beginning‚ Celie’s thoughts and actions perpetuate this oppression‚ but as she grows emotionally and sexually she

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    Color Purple Relationships

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    Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is a heart-wrenching novel that portrays a young girl‚ Celie‚ as a child wife living in the South struggling with the ability and knowledge of standing up for herself‚ mental and physical abuse‚ and the pain of not being loved and cared for. This story takes place during the early 20th Century in rural Georgia. During this time period‚ women were told only to serve others‚ to fulfill the interests of men rather than their own‚ given limited opportunities‚ and seen

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