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    Human Dignity 16 October 2017 Human Dignity Essay 2 Setting: Deke and Bailey are new to their high school and decided to become more engaged in their school by joining the book club. During their first gathering‚ Deke and Bailey hit it off and decided that for now on they will discuss the book via email before going to their club meetings. They meet every week on Tuesdays at 7:00 P.M.‚ and their newest book is called “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker. To: Bailey From: Deke Subject: Violence

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    In the novel‚ The Color Purple by Alice Walker‚ identity is fluid among the female characters namely Celie‚ Shug‚ Sofia and Squeak. Their identity is influenced by a lot of factors such as their own thoughts‚ culture‚ personalities‚ and other people. Likewise‚ in a real setting‚ people are influenced by several factors too. People affect one another and it is inevitable. At some point‚ people find their true identities through other things and not by the self. This article explores on the female

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    In the novel‚ The Color Purple‚ there are three main characters who demonstrate meaningful traits of women. Celie‚ the main character‚ is the most important of the three. She is influenced by other characters in the novel and is inspired to let herself seek their virtues. Celie’s two friends‚ Shug and Sofia‚ are both strong women who teach Celie how to achieve the happiness she desires. Sofia is a woman with authority in her life. Her life has been a constant struggle and can no longer endure

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    The first movie‚ “The Color Purple”‚ is based on the novel written by Alice Walker that carries the same name. The movie presents the hardship and domestic violence of African-American women at the beginning of the 20th century when racism‚ injustice‚ oppression‚ and African-American’ rights were still noticed in America at that time. Its main character is a young African-American girl‚ Celie‚ who is repeatedly sexually molested by her stepfather who later is forced to marry Albert‚ a widower with

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    "Over my dead body Celie is coming with you to memphis. What’s wrong witchu" You’re nothing but a piece oh shit on the bottom of my shoe‚ thats whats wrong. I’m leaving with Shug and getting away from you. Your’e a dirty rat and your dead body is just the welcome I need to leave you. You might have been a half way decent man if your father raised you right. You know that Nettie was all I had and the only one that loved me and you took her away from me. Your’e nothing but trash for doing that to

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    Could an event lead to traumatized a person by making her/him insecure about their body and everything else about themselves? In the novel‚ the writer later explains and informs the reader that Melinda was raped by a guy named Andy during a summer party. After she was raped‚ Melinda got traumatized by the event that she wasn’t able to be confident with herself‚ saying that she was ugly‚ and she wasn’t able to speak. Melinda’s feeling about her body changes as she sees herself in the mirrors or just

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    I used to hate the image staring back at me in the mirror. The figure that stood in front of me had skin as black as night. Skin that remind her peers of slavery and always was the butt of the jokes. I was just a little girl when I learned how to be ashamed of myself. It started at home when my uncle‚ who was as dark as me‚ would compare me to his lighter children. He would go on for hours about how dark my skin was. He wouldn’t stop until someone around him said that it was enough. The thing was

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    I remember everything so vividly. Too vividly it hurts my head. How did I end up in this position? How did I end up watching my sister die? Blood was spilling from her mouth. She was struggling‚ and I grabbed my silver dagger and stabbed her in the heart. No pity. It was gonna happen sooner or later. I just made it happen sooner. There’s a system in our village called the Trials where we fight. Fight until only one person is selected‚ and the winner is left with the Royal Family’s money. You don’t

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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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    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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