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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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    Similes In Purple Hibiscus

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    Adichie uses the purple hibiscus as a symbol to show the development of the characters and they begin to gain more freedom from their controlling father. The author uses literary techniques to show the internal conflict the characters face within the story and how they learn they can be who they want to be. The memoir Purple Hibiscus show the oppression their father causes and how other people come and help guide their way towards freedom to express themselves. The author uses the purple hibiscus to represent

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    The Color Purple Analysis

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    Analysis of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple “No one is exempt from the possibility of a conscious connection to All That Is.” Alice Walker explores this quote through the story of Celie. Just like the color purple‚ the truth‚ no one is exempt from. No one can run away from the truth. It is inevitably inescapable. Starting off in a rather harsh setting‚ Celie starts off her story at the time she is raped for the first time by her own father. Rather straight forward‚ Walker captures her reader’s

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    Theme #1 Alice Walker uses several different techniques in her writing to get her point across to the reader. The use of conflict in the novel‚ “The Color Purple”‚ helps the author portray how society was during this time. The main conflict brought up in “The Color Purple” is based on the society’s views of gender‚ race‚ and ageism. The American society in the south was heavily one-sided on these topics‚ as the author describes in this book. Women during this time are looked down upon and unappreciated

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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 comes

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    Proposal for delivery of culturally competent services "The Color Purple" Team D BSHS/422 April 23‚ 2012 Jennifer Brennan Proposal for delivery of culturally competent services "The Color Purple" The Color Purple is a story set in the 1900s about an African American Culture of people who endured hardships involving sexual and physical abuse‚ and gender related oppression‚ at a time when Black people were free yet still feared and segregated. The main characters of the story are: Celie

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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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    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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    The characters in The Color Purple are beautifully crafted with unique personalities and backgrounds. Some are detestable‚ while others are lovely‚ but all go through a period of self-reflection and development. Celie As an adolescent‚ Celie is a victim of rape and abuse by her father‚ Alphonso. This is evident when she says “He [Alphonso] beat me today cause he say I winked at a boy in church. I may have got somethin in my eye but I didn’t wink. I don’t even look at mens. (A. Walker‚ 5)” Her father

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    Explore how Walker’s manipulation of Celie’s voice conveys attitudes towards the relationship with Shug Avery & Examine how the novel as a whole shows how these attitudes are shaped by the society in which the characters live Throughout The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker manipulates Celie’s voice in a variety of ways in order to convey the different attitudes she possesses towards Shug Avery. As the exposition of the novel progresses‚ Walker initially represents Celie as a vulnerable‚ oppressed character

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