Shug Avery‚ a main character in The Color Purple‚ is a promiscuous‚ attentive‚ independent woman. None of these words‚ however‚ can describe the protagonist Celie. Shug was a role model for Celie; she taught Celie that she didn’t have to put up with being taken advantage of and that love and sex were real and could be enjoyable. All the lessons that Shug taught Celie were meant to help her new best friend see that her life was not what it should be. Celie was in an abusive relationship with
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Maya Kennedy 10/24/14 English AP The Color Purple by:Alice Walker Genre: ● Epistolary novel‚ confessional novel Historical Text: ● By this time in history slavery was long outlawed but its effects were still felt heavily by those African Americans still living in the southern United States. Segregation was imposed strictly‚ and entire black populations lived “isolated from white society”. They “had to sit in separate parts of movie houses‚ drink out of separate fountains‚ and could not eat at white lunch counters”
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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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order to achieve a sense of Self and Identity. The texts I have chosen illustrate the hazards of Western religion‚ Rape‚ Patriarchal Dominance and Colonial notions of white supremacy; an intend to show how the protagonists of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple as well as Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye‚ cope with or crumble due to these issues in their struggle to find their identities. The search for self-identity and self-knowledge is not an easy task‚ even more so when you are a black woman and considered
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the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals‚ as well as those African-American women outside. She provides the work of Black feminist thinkers‚ Angela Davis who was an American political activist‚ Alice Walker who wrote the book “The Colour Purple‚” and Audre Lorde an American writer and civil rights activist. Although the book focused on the black feminist thought of intellectuals and activists‚ the author believed‚ that those experiences and perspectives of black women would serve as a lens
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In the end Celie’s change into a talking topic who makes her personal decisions. But this article really hit‚ for Celie her lesbian drive is a normal consequence of her anxiety of males after her catastrophic rapes from her stepfather then her harsh treatment of Mr.__ which we can understand throughout the book and indeed Celie develops who she is because of Shug. Slomski‚ Genevieve. "The Color Purple." Masterplots‚ Fourth Edition (2010): 1-3. Literary Reference Center. Web. 29 Feb. 2016. Some
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What’s Black‚ White‚ and The Color Purple? “First he put his thing up against my hip and sort of wiggle it around. Then he grab hold my titties. Then he push his thing inside my pussy. When that hurt‚ I cry. He start to choke me‚ saying You better shut up and get used to it.”(Walker 1). If you as a parent took The Color Purple off the shelves and just opened the book you would begin by reading the quote above. As a parent who just opens the book and reads the first two pages‚ already‚ based
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THE COLOR PURPLE ALICE WALKER First published in 1982. To the Spirit: Without whose assistance Neither this book Nor I Would have been Written. Show me how to do like you Show me how to do it. Stevie Wonder You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy. Dear God‚ I am fourteen years old. I-aa I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me. Last spring after little Lucious come I heard them fussing. He was pulling on her arm. She
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always seems to be events or details that are changed to fit the film. From the way the characters develop‚ to what the symbols stand for‚ Alice Walker’s novel‚ “The Color Purple‚” and Steven Spielberg’s make of the movie‚ “The Color Purple‚” show signs of similarity and a few details that make them unique. First‚ the 295 page book about a girl growing up being abused and not having a say in how she wants to live her life‚ was published in 1982. Steven Spielberg then directed a movie to take after the
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The Color Purple- The color purple is a symbol for all good things. In the book Shug says to Celie “Look around how many things do you see that are the color purple. Not much I said. Thats why when we see the color purple its rare just like you.” This text from the passage supports the color purple means good things cause later Shug and Celie compare things such as them selves to the color. They even compare lavender which is purple as a good thing. Elephant - Thought the Book Shug has Elephants
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