Liu Yang Educ 322 Instructor: Dr. Jeanette Hoffman Jan 21‚ 2013 Theories of Development Reflection Paper Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse In the text of Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse‚ Lily is in the stage of Pre-operational. According to Jean Piaget‚ in the pre-operational stage‚ children develop semiotic function which is an ability to represent an object or action with signs and symbols‚ such as language‚ imagery‚ drawing symbolic games and deferred imitation. At first‚ Lily likes her teacher
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Over the Summer‚ I read the book “The Color Purple” Written by Alice Walker. This book is written in the form of letters‚ which is also referred to as an epistolary. The series of letters are written by the main character Celie‚ and all of her letters are addressed to God. The story of the Color Purple is primarily about Celie’s life‚ which starts out extremely rough. She is raped and abused by her Pa‚ her mother dies‚ and there is also a man instructed in marrying her sister. But‚ her Pa refuses
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prevalent and reoccurring theme in black literature. African-American novelists in the early 20th century offered a predominantly white audience an insight into black culture and vocalized the injustice had by their hands. Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye both incorporate controversial female protagonists facing the challenge of mental oppression by both personal and societal belief‚ and physical abuse at the hands of their aggressors. Whilst each arguably feminist
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The color purple demonstrates the feminist struggle one woman over comes. Limitations placed for not only being a woman but being an African American woman enhance the severity of Celie’s battles against society. Celine faces multiple demeaning challenges that cause her to become very passive around others. She was raped at least twice by her own father‚ and had two children which were stripped from her arms and sold at a very youthful age. Celine later is raped again by her husband who her father
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healing power of writing a series of letters‚ addressed to God first‚ and then her sister. Through her 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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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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What was also interesting was the fact that “enslaved black men were strupped of the patriarchal status that had characterized their social situation in Africa but they were not stripped of their masculinity” (Hooks 21). The black male slave were primarily exploited as a laborer in the fields‚ but the black female was exploited as a laborer in the fields‚ a worker in the domestic household‚ a breeder‚ and as an object of white male sexual assault. We can write millions of stories on the struggles
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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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The purple rose of cairo takes place in New Jersey around the 1930’s during the depression. Cecelia is a waitress in her town‚ unfortunately that doesn’t last long. Feeling sad about losing her job Cecelia gos to the local movie theater to watch “the purple rose of cairo” to find some happiness in her somewhat drab life. Tom Baxter is a secondary character in the movie‚ although to Cecelia’s surprise he walkes of the screen into her life. He declared she leave her husband and explore the world with
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Take this test: you’re driving along and notice a chestnut dairy animals‚ how would you react? Presently assume the dairy animals is purple‚ will your reaction vary? Odds are that seeing a purple bovine will make you sit up and pay heed. Seth Godin utilizes the purple-bovine representation to underline the significance of seeing things in an unexpected way. It’s not really new that‚ while a few individuals see fate and unhappiness‚ others see blue skies and opportunities proliferating. A whole
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