The Color Purple In the novel “The Color purple” the dynamic characters are Albert‚ and Celie. Albert is one of the character that married Celie and always beat her. His way of treating people change when Celie left the house with Shug Avery. He started to treat people better than he use to and when Celie come back from her tripe he was really nice to her and treat her with kindness. Celie is the main character that was rape by her step-father at a young age‚ she was separated from her younger
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Motivations: The reason Celie is quiet‚ tries to be invisible and does not stand up for herself is because the way she is treated. Celie is constantly told she is ugly‚ worthless and was abused by her stepfather Alphonso and then by her husband Mr. (Albert). “But I can let you have Celie… She ugly. He say. But she ain’t no stranger to hard work. And she clean. And God done fixed her. You can do everything just like you want to and she ain’t gonna make you feed it or clothe it (Walker 7-8).” “He beat
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Alice Walker an award winning womanist‚americanist‚and civil rights activist has accomplished overnight success with “The Color Purple” and “Women.” Both reflecting black females rights and Alice Walker’s southern childhood struggles. “The Color Purple” takes place in the segregated harsh south between 1910 and 1940. Walker remakes the humiliating and devastating discriminatory laws outcomes and uses americanism to achieve white and black interaction across the united states. Born in Eatonton Georgia
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A life of abuse‚ sexual exploitation‚ and social exploitation is what young uneducated Celie encounters in Alice Walker’s ¨The Color Purple¨. Without knowing her true genealogy poor vulnerable Celie is left to write letters in her idiosyncratic english to her god who she feels is the only person that might heed to her plight for help. Though all the mistreatment Celie still yearns to find love to heal and strengthen the broken community of which the story takes place. Though the growth that Celie
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Walker’s Purple is Not Just a Color Alice Walker’s epistolary novel The Color Purple demonstrates how the mistreatment of a woman cannot prevent her from fulfilling her destiny. The protagonist and narrator of the novel‚ Celie‚ is a young‚ uneducated black girl who is verbally and sexually abused by her supposed father‚ Alphonso. He fathers two children with her‚ kidnapping both and presumably killing one‚ if not both. Because of the unwarranted trauma‚ she struggles for the rest of her life
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Professor Brown History 106 25 April 2011 The Color Purple Film Critique The Color Purple is a 1985 drama film directed by Steven Spielberge that centers around the story of a poor southern‚ Black woman‚ Cellie Harris who overcomes years of racism‚ sexism‚ and physical/verbal abuse from the men in her life like her own father and husband. As she lives her life as a slave to her husband‚ she meets two strong black women along the way that gives her the comfort and self empowerment
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Literary Analysis Outline Title: Violence is Not the Remedy Introduction In Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple she uses violence to illustrate the main character Celie’s transition from being a weak character to a strong one. In the beginning of the novel Celie is abused physically and psychologically. Her father rapes and beats his children. Her father took her out of school at a very young age‚ due to pregnancy‚ which is why Celie has very poor english skills and is ignorant to the world
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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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As one of the more important characters in Alice Walker’s captivating novel‚ The Color Purple‚ Shug Avery as an individual‚ is probably the most interesting characters of them all. Her character captivates all of the reader’s attention and holds onto it. There are many things about Shug that we‚ as readers of the novel‚ aren’t sure about. Things that we wonder about‚ make assumptions and theories about‚ but will never quite know the answer. Many a things she says and does that makes us wonder. One
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today. 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
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