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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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    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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    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

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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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    Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is a heart-wrenching novel that portrays a young girl‚ Celie‚ as a child wife living in the South struggling with the ability and knowledge of standing up for herself‚ mental and physical abuse‚ and the pain of not being loved and cared for. This story takes place during the early 20th Century in rural Georgia. During this time period‚ women were told only to serve others‚ to fulfill the interests of men rather than their own‚ given limited opportunities‚ and seen

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    Due to the mistreatment‚ the women often are forced to find different ways to deal and cope with the oppression. Alice Walker examines these layers of abuse in marital and family relationships on a young African American woman forced into an abusive marriage in her book The Color Purple. It is through this abusive marriage that Celie comes to the realization that she must fight back against the oppression if she ever

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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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    police immediately arrest the fireman. How do they know they’ve got the right man?” Mr. Purple asks with enthusiasm. Picture 2- “I think that they knew it was the right man because the carpenter‚ truck driver‚ and mechanic were all girls‚” Timothy said with excitement. All the other students looked at him with anger as he stood up. Timothy was the smart alec of the class and was always answering

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    Walker’s use of language to present Celie’s impression of Shug. Examine how the manipulation of language contributes to our understanding of the significance of Shug to Celie. Shug’s significance to Celie plays a pivotal role in the novel ‘The Color Purple. Through Walker’s use of language‚ we understand the importance of this significance‚ which helps to develop Celie’s character throughout and is already prominent in letter 22. Firstly‚ we understand that Shug’s arrival excites Celie a lot and

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