I chose the movie The Color Purple because the story is centered on the life of African-American women‚ who experienced issues with family bonding. This young lady was faced with many hardship and struggles that began in the home with her family. The storyline behind how this young girl was sexually and mentally abused by her father. The abuse continued later on when she was forced to marry an older man with young children of his own. Throughout her struggles with self-worth and her own identity
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Alice Walker’s The Color Purple chronicles the lives of African-American women living in the deep American South during the 1930s. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia‚ the novel addresses the many issues that plague black women‚ especially their exceptionally low status in the social culture. Walker cleverly tells the story of two sisters‚ Celie and Nettie‚ through a series of letters and diary entries. Celie‚ a poor‚ uneducated young woman‚ has been sexually abused by the man she believed was
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In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple‚ the reader follows Celie‚ a young African American girl‚ as she reveals the hardships of her life through her written testimonies to god. Celie’s ability to move beyond the abuse of Pa and Mr.______‚ into a life created by her relationships and ambitions highlights how it takes courage to change one’s identity because of the past. Celie‚ a 14 year old girl‚ is demeaned by her father‚ Pa‚ from the beginning of the novel; either by rape‚ or stripping her of her
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reader with historical information and relevance to ones life while using interesting language and original literary devices. If a book entails these qualities‚ I believe that it is worthy enough to be taught within schools. The epistolary The Color Purple is worthy of Literary Merit. It illustrates real life situations that have
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In the novel‚ The Color Purple by Alice Walker‚ identity is fluid among the female characters namely Celie‚ Shug‚ Sofia and Squeak. Their identity is influenced by a lot of factors such as their own thoughts‚ culture‚ personalities‚ and other people. Likewise‚ in a real setting‚ people are influenced by several factors too. People affect one another and it is inevitable. At some point‚ people find their true identities through other things and not by the self. This article explores on the female
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In the novel‚ The Color Purple‚ there are three main characters who demonstrate meaningful traits of women. Celie‚ the main character‚ is the most important of the three. She is influenced by other characters in the novel and is inspired to let herself seek their virtues. Celie’s two friends‚ Shug and Sofia‚ are both strong women who teach Celie how to achieve the happiness she desires. Sofia is a woman with authority in her life. Her life has been a constant struggle and can no longer endure
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Queering Black Patriarchy The Color Purple by Steven Spielberg is a film and the main plot is a black man that beats and abused his wife‚ Celie. Celie was happy at first to get out of her house because of her abusive father that took her kids away from her but at the same time distraught of leaving her sister. The movie had originated from a book written by Alice Walker. Alice walker was accused of favoring white feminists while at the same time being very bitter to the black males. After the movie
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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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"The Color Purple" is a very powerful film that tells the story of Celie‚ a poor black woman living in the old south. The film begins at her childhood and follows her up to old age. She was raped and abused by her father as a young woman and was sent to marry and equally abusive man‚ Albert. The various people in Celie’s household may seem strange in their actions to an outsider. However‚ if one examines the actions of the characters‚ their behabiors can be explained‚ and sometimes justified‚ by
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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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