Color Purple‚ by Alice Walker explores themes that irradiate the human condition: search for faith‚ the nature of human suffering‚ loss of innocence‚ and the exultation of the human spirit. The book delights the reader to a journey where the characters continually discover truth‚ love‚ beauty‚ and answers to the meaning of life. So if asked the question‚ ‘Which‚ out of all the summer reading novels‚ would you read next?’ my most truthful answer would be that I would reread The Color Purple‚ once
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The theme of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is very straightforward and simple. Like many other novels devoted to the mistreatment of blacks and black women especially‚ The Color Purple is dedicated to black women’s rights. Much of the narrative in Walker’s novel is derived from her own personal experience‚ growing up in the rural South as an uneducated and abused child. In short‚ the goal of this book and indeed all her writing is to inspire and motivate black women to stand up for their rights
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Conflict in Purple Hibiscus * In the novel‚ Purple Hibiscus‚ Adichie clearly portrays the conflicting oppression of Kambili’s patriarchal household - where she is ordered to follow a strict ‘schedule’ - to the realization of an almost ‘holiday’ like freedom she is exposed to when visiting Aunty Ifeoma and her family. * The author also intentionally expressed the Catholic upbringing of the protagonist in the novel and her brother‚ Jaja‚ as a stark contrast to their Auntie’s strong Igbo traditional
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LadarreunTaylor English 131 FEB 25 The Color Purple The Color Purple’ is the reverberation of the slavery time. The African-American thinker and writer Gloria Watkins points out that ‘The Color Purple’ is a imitation of the custom of the ‘slave narrative’ Sections written by male and female former slaves about their skills under slavery. Some slave narratives were collected among previous slaves in the 1930s by the Works Progress Direction‚
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Character Analysis of Sandra The character of Sandra in Connie Gault’s short story called “The Man Who Followed His Hand” is shaped by the life that she has; she alienates herself from her family and community‚ thus making her an outsider trapped in a life she doesn’t want for herself. Connie Gault develops Sandra’s character by her thoughts and the way she interacts with other people. The party that Sandra and his husband hosted shows her isolation from her family and community. Sandra hates the party
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From Walker’s pen strokes to Spielberg’s camera angles‚ ‘The Color Purple’ tells a hauntingly beautiful story of a woman who is chained at every limb by shackles of race‚ sex and sexuality. From sympathy to disgust‚ from resignation to faith‚ and from downright submission to transcendent triumph‚ “exploring the oppressions‚ the insanities‚ the loyalties and triumphs of black women" (O’Brien)‚ the film asks one basic question: ‘how much can you endure before you can exclaim that “I am an expression
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Dear Pulitzer Judging Board‚ The book‚ The Color Purple by Alice Walker was superior. This book should have received the Pulitzer Prize because it contains some of the best elements‚ in which this book very unique. Some of the key elements that were featured is by the book being written in letters and or diary form by the protagonist‚ Celie‚ herself. Another key element of The Color Purple was Alice Walker’s way of connecting with the audience showing strong emotions and the struggles that Celie
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“You’d bet not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy” (Walker 1). These are the first words written in the novel which embody the struggle that the main character‚ Celie‚ withholds throughout the novel in trying to differentiate her surroundings as good or evil. At this instance‚ Celie had been raped by her own father and is being told by him to never tell anyone but God‚ especially her mother. From this point on‚ Celie begins to write letters only to God‚ pouring her soul into this only
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From apathy to awaking ---A Brief Comment on the Color Purple Yang Yali The School of Foreign Languages China West Normal University A Paper for Appreciating English Movies May 2012 From apathy to awaking ---A Brief Comment on the Color Purple Abstract: The color purple is a classical black feminist novel. Celie‚ the protagonist and narrator of the novel‚ undergo the decades of social and sexual oppression but finally liberate herself from domination. Strong
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Purple Hibiscus Character Analysis Kambili is the narrator of our story; she is a shy‚ observant 15 year old girl. Kambili is constantly searching for her father’s approval. Throughout the book‚ Kambili evolves deeper into her true identity. Kambili lives in Nigeria with her wealthy family and has never known anything different than what her overprotective father has shown her‚ which consists of love through discipline and strict Christianity is the only way to live. Kambili’s older brother
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