Finding Your Voice: An Analysis of The Color Purple “Who do you think you is? he say... Look at you. You black‚ you pore‚ you ugly‚ you a woman. Goddam‚ he say‚ you nothing at all.” (187) Alice Walker‚ the author of The Color Purple‚ focuses on the struggles of a poor and uneducated African American girl‚ who is verbally‚ physically and sexually abused by several men in her life. She feels worthless and becomes completely submissive. Her only way to express her feelings is through private
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story and have many similarities. However‚ there 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
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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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Character Relationships with Celie-from “The Color Purple” Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” is a riveting‚ controversial novel about a woman named Celie‚ other African-Americans and the relationships between them that are either tested or brought closer together. Celie‚ a former slave‚ narrates this novel through her writing of letters to a person she loves and trusts the most‚ God. In these letters: Nettie‚ Albert and Shug are three dominant characters that surround and transform Celie’s life
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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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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- 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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The Color Purple‚ by Alice Walker‚ was so impactful it was awarded the Pulitzer prize. Alice Walker does an incredible job of creating a realness living in the south during a segregated time and the hardship of being a black woman in the early 1900’s. A few years later a movie was made and was directed by Steven Spielberg‚ who brought the movie to life‚ Whoopi Goldberg is transformed as she plays Celie and lives in the south during the early 1900’s. The Hollywood’s perception of the Color Purple
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historical moments serve as a good purpose to allow such a novel to be included in the high school curriculum. As a novel as timeless and beautiful as The Color Purple‚ it may not be suitable for the high school level. Due to its sexual content‚ and themes of abuse‚ this novel does not belong in the high school curriculum. Throughout the novel The Color Purple‚ sexual assault is a main focus in which the novel gives graphic detail. In the beginning of the novel‚ main protagonist Celie is raped by her father
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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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