Alice Walker is an American author and poet. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She was the youngest of eight children‚ born in 1944 in Eatonton‚ Georgia‚ in the Deep South of the United States. When she eight‚ she was wounded in the eye by a shot from a BB gun fired by one of her brothers. This accident blinded her in one eye. As a result‚ she became more shy‚ thoughtful and studious; this is when
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In the book “the color purple” by Alice walker she uses ironic devices to show that celie was abused mentally and physically. While she had endure the abuse it becomes worse as time passed and she felt hopeless in trying to protect herself. As shown in the book the main protagonist tells her story in a diary. In the Color Purple many ironic devices are used to show the true meaning of the book.The ironic that the author used are situational irony and symbolism. The situational irony plays a big part
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People classify almost anything everyone. Three musicals that I feel show social classification are Hamilton‚ Hedwig‚ The Color purple. In Hamilton Lin Maranda‚ the director and face of Hamilton had a vison that was different from the normal Caribbean immigrant story. Hedwig is a musical on German male that is trying find his place in society threw his music. Color purple is a musical and a movie‚ it’s about 2 sisters that been through hell and back. All these musicals have the same value they made
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Dave Bartleby Joe Nelson History of Rock 2 December 2012 Musical Structure Analysis Jimi Hendrix “Purple Haze” The three piece band that is the Jimi Hendrix Experience packed an explosive musical punch with “Purple Haze”‚ a track that is notable for its profound musical improvisation. Yet at the same time‚ the song does retain many supportive qualities that accompany the improvisation‚ such as a consistent bass groove‚ and a drum part which closely follows a pattern of cyclicity as it progresses
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The history of the purple heart goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. Although it wasn’t called the purple heart‚ George Washington had established the badge of military merit‚ then established by the commander-in-chief of the continental army by the order from Newburgh‚ New York headquarters on august 7‚1782. Although the badge of military merit was only awarded to three revolutionary war soldiers it was never abolished but it was not proposed again until October 10‚1927. Army chief of
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“The Street Of Purple Cloth” By Karen Conally. This poem is about a woman that went on a journey ‚ and found herself in the process . In the first couple of stanzas is where she starts her journey and gets lost but then she finds herself and that she found out where home is‚ home is where you make it. In the saying of “She has lost her way in the street”‚ means that she is lost‚ then this saying “For the first time‚ She understands the words means that she found herself and home. There are
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Feminist Analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker In Alice Walkers The Color Purple‚ we have the narrator‚ Celie‚ writing letters to God talking to Him about what is going on in her life. The setting of the story takes place in the state of Georgia where Celie‚ the main character‚ plays the role of a typical feminine stereotype throughout the novel. Celie is dominated by the male role and does everything they tell her to do. The bullying starts right inside her home so she feels like it is normal
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has to learn and find out oneself. In the novel The House On Mango Street‚ written by Sandra Cisneros‚ it shows an internal struggle with the main character trying to discover what identifies her. Throughout this novel‚ the main character‚ Esperanza‚ substantiates that she has no real home since she migrates a lot. Incidentally‚ this leads to several experiences in one home‚ to where she constantly aggravates to know how she identifies (Cisneros). For instance‚ one of the extensive actions that
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Esperanza: the Person Behind the Print In The House on Mango Street‚ by Sandra Cisneros‚ a little girl from a Latino heritage is given birth to. Not literally‚ but in the sense of characterization. Esperanza is a fictional character made up by Cisneros to bring about sensitive‚ alert‚ and rich literature. She is the protagonist in the novel and is used to depict a female’s life growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Cisneros creates the illusion that Esperanza is a real human being to communicate
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“The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros is series of vignettes put together to create one remarkable novel. The story unfolds from the perspective of Esperanza Cordero‚ a young Latina girl growing up in inner-city Chicago. The plot is loosely based on the author’s childhood. The setting of the novel‚ Mango Street‚ is important to the work’s themes of social classes‚ self-identity‚ and gender roles. Social class is very important to the narrator. Esperanza is ashamed of where she lives and
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