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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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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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 Kite Runner is the book I recommend more than The Color Purple by Alice Walker for incoming 9th Grade Honors students.The Kite Runner shows very emotional story of friendship‚ family‚ mistakes‚ and love. It was a very interesting book which caught my attention and drew me in. Although The Color Purple was a book about a less fortunate‚ uneducated‚ African-American fourteen-year-old girl who comes across struggles in her life so‚ began to writes letters to God to help and guide her. I don’t recommend
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the story “The Bluest Eye” & the movie “The Color Purple”. In the story “The Bluest Eye” was mostly about A girl name Pecola Breedlove. Pecola was the daughter of Mrs. Pauline Breedlove‚ and Cholly Breedlove‚ also the sister of Sammy her 14 year old brother who ran away. In The Movie it was about the main character‚ Ms. Celie‚ she was Common law wife of Albert. They had 2 kids‚ named (Olivia & Adam). Introducing the other characters in The Color Purple… Shug Avery‚ A Juke Joint Singer. Harpo‚ Albert’s
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south often mirror the gender roles in her sister Nettie’s African culture. In both worlds‚ women are considered inferior and therefore are subservient to the males surrounding them. This custom was prevalent throughout the world at the time of The Color Purple’s setting (circa 1930). Beside the hierarchy of male dominance‚ many other similarities between the sexism of Nettie’s African surroundings and the sexism of Celie’s American society exist. In both cultures‚ women were the primary caretakers
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present is a made thing‚ not something born. (Chapter 12 line 25)” Here Offred talks about totally disregarding herself by play the role of a handmaid to avoid the consequences of disobedience. Just like Celie and most of the female characters in The Color Purple‚ Offred and the reds in The Handmaids Tale are not treated as individuals with independent selves‚ but as tools to benefit the male’s need for power and control. In both Novels the authors choose to group the women into different social
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Celie Being a black female in the south during the early 1900’s‚ at a time when white and blacks were socially segregated and women were absolutely inferior to men‚ was one of the many challenges Celie would be faced with in her lifetime. Born in 1895‚ Celie was raised on a farm in a small town in Georgia where formal education took a back seat to physical labor and household maintenance‚ and the Church was the main focal point of socialization among local town members. We are first introduced
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on Liam and his everyday battle between himself and who he really wants to be. Regan’s life orbits around Luna. In The Color Purple‚ Nettie motivates Celie to speak up for herself while in The Lost Weekend‚ Wick fails at an attempt to help Don end his alcoholism streak. All three novels displays‚ behind a frail gay character‚ is a strong heterosexual sibling. In The Color Purple‚ Celie were used and abused by her step-children and husband. Celie were ready to give
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Black female characters in this book tend to be victims of violence by men‚ who tend to play the dominant role in this particular society.Men also commit sexual violence against women‚ raping them as a result of sexual desire or simply to make women feel like they are a lower class. The way female characters react to violence varies dramatically. Some suffer repeated violence and are very submissive‚ but some prove their strength in the face of violence‚ after suffering abuse many women prove that
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