On the very first page of The Color Purple‚ the reader encounters strong words and difficult concepts. The book unfolds into a series of letters from Celie to her sister Nettie‚ as well as some diary entries. The book talks mostly about Celie’s life. We learn that in the beginning of the novel Celie is raped by her father. Another thing we learn is that Celie’s mother is ill and therefor is unable to care for her family. Celie‚ the narrator‚ is a poor and uneducated‚ 14 year-old African American
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The Color Purple The story The Color Purple is about a fourteen-year-old girl name Celie who was raped repeatedly by a man whom she was lead to believe as her father majority of her life later only to find out later after her mother’s death he was not. At the time she believed that her father was her father so finding out that her father‚ Alphonso was not her father made her relieved being that she had gave birth to two children whom she believed was her brother and sister. Celie experienced rape
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Throughout The Color Purple‚ Walker realistic shows the many strong connections and loyalties the characters have with one another. One strong bond that is shown throughout the book is between Celie and her sister Nettie. They always had a strong bond‚ even when Celie feared that Nettie was dead because they did not hear from each other for a long period of time. In one of Nettie’s letters to Celie‚ she wrote “But God‚ I miss you‚ Celie. I think about the time you laid yourself down for me. I love
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1 Professor Rhonda Rodriguez English 209 17 March 2014 Alice Walker As a writer‚ Alice Walker deals with many issues‚ most of which concern historical and modern race problems in America. Through this she brings to national attention the cruelty and inhumane abuse that African Americans have endured. This general topic can be broken down into many areas that she feels are important for people to know and to learn from. Alice walker was born on the ninth of February in 1944‚ In Eatonton Georgia
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I’m alive" (Walker‚ 29). These desperate words of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple display Celie’s disconsolateness in her life and her submission towards those around her. Nettie‚ Celie’s sister is a fighter‚ refusing to allow any man or women to diminish her spirits‚ hopes‚ and dreams‚ at any cost. Whereas Celie‚ too weak and fearful to defy anyone who demands more than what she desires to offer‚ suffers through these trials‚ unable to find her voice. In The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker analyzes the
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Purple Book Blue Life “The Color Purple” written by Alice Walker‚ and published in 1982 won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1983. It illustrates the hardships and emotional trauma that came with growing up and living as an African-American woman. It also addresses many issues within american social culture and gender roles. The novel centers upon the growth and development of a girl named Celie. She was raped at 14 by her own father and then forced into a marriage with a nefarious apathetic older
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female growing up in a prejudiced time period‚ Alice Walker lived through cruelty and isolation. After finding her voice and standing up for herself‚ Walker was able to confront the challenges life presented. Her experiences led to accomplishing extraordinary things like becoming an author. In one of her novels‚ The Color Purple‚ Walker creates Celie‚ the main character‚ to demonstrate her beliefs in women’s rights and equality for all. Alice Walker uses characterization and point of view to illustrate
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Alice Walker’s historical novel‚ Meridian‚ explores sexual and racial discrimination through the perspectives of both the oppressors and oppressed. The almost purely negative portrayals of sex challenge the warped power dynamics under a patriarchal rule and emphasize the connection between personal experience of the oppressed and socio-political setting. Distinct perspective’s moral ambivalence underscore Walker’s implied argument about sexual politics via symbolism and irony. The 1950s-conservative
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Alice Walker February 9th 1944 in Eatonton Georgia a great author was born‚ who is Known by the name Alice Walker . Alice Walker Is a African American who is the eighth and youngest child of Minnie Talulah and Willie Lee. In Alice years of being a child she became blind in her right eye from being scarred with a BB gun by her brother Bill. Getting teased by her classmates and the misunderstood from her family made Alice Shy. Six years later Alice got her scar removed and this helped
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In the year 1973 Alice Walker published a collection of short stories titled “In Love and Trouble” which includes one of the most widely studied pieces of work till this day titled “Everyday use”. In this short story the author Alice Walker incorporates the struggle and stereotypical beliefs that circulated among the lives of rural black American women during the time and did this by demonstrating the numerous adversities a rural family has surpassed by assimilating it through the tension between
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