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    Life in Southern America as we know wasn’s the easiest in the past‚ where the patriarchy ruled and women found themselves under appreciated. kind of left at the mercy of men. Some chose to fight back and stand for themselves‚ but most ended up lost as slaves to their husbands. Celie clearly belonged to the second group. In such tough life‚ she always was a follower‚ she never stood up for herself. A total opposite of that‚ belonging to the 1st group‚ was Shug. Celie first came across to know Shug

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    The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Color Purple‚ by Alice Walker‚ is a very intense book to read. By intense‚ I mean it is a book touching very difficult and hard aspects of life of a poor‚ black oppressed woman in the early twentieth century. Walker does social criticism in her novel‚ mostly criticizing the way black women were treated in the early twentieth century. Walker uses the life experiences of Celie to illustrate her social criticism. The Color Purple is not written in the style

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    the system of oppression that whites created through colonialism and the fanatical need to maintain a system of capitalism at the expense of black bodies. Contrastingly‚ the black cloud signifies the resistance and constant struggles that people of color have endured historically in their attempts to be identified as humans in a place that they built. The complexities of this particular scene in this final stage are what makes Kara Walker’s work brilliant. Her ability to contextualize the past and

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    The Color Purple is a novel written by Alice Walker. Walker is an essayist and poet who played a part in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. She had written two novels before The Color Purple‚ but most of her success came from the publishing of this book. Walker had suffered a terrible eye injury in her youth and her self-confidence decreased‚ which led her to find comfort in writing poetry. Her first experience with writing a story took place in 1965 when she graduated from college. From then

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    Most commonly known for her work‚ The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker has been a prominent figure in both the African American and American community. Born on February 9‚ 1933 in Putnam County‚ Georgia‚ Walker‚ in many of her pieces‚ covers the telling experience during the Jim Crow Era. As the youngest of eight‚ family had been a major factor in her life. Her parents‚ Minnie Tallulah Grant and Willie Lee Walker were very hardworking people who tried their best to provide their children with a sense

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    Overcoming Prejudices for Self Acceptance Throughout Alice Walker’s novel‚ The Color Purple‚ the main character‚ Celie‚ reveals all of the hardships she has endured during her life. Celie confides in her younger sister‚ Nettie‚ and God to express the way she feels in certain situations. As the story progresses‚ Celie eventually finds her voice and breaks away from all the men who oppressed her during her life. For the duration of the novel‚ prejudice becomes a reoccurring theme. Not only does

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    the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals‚ as well as those African-American women outside. She provides the work of Black feminist thinkers‚ Angela Davis who was an American political activist‚ Alice Walker who wrote the book “The Colour Purple‚” and Audre Lorde an American writer and civil rights activist. Although the book focused on the black feminist thought of intellectuals and activists‚ the author believed‚ that those experiences and perspectives of black women would serve as a lens

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    Gender Representations: The Colour Purple and The Yellow Wallpaper Culturally throughout the world gender has been significant in forming social constructions‚ for years men and women have complied with the concept of women being the weaker sex. Alice Walker’s rites of passage novel The Colour Purple1 and Charlotte Gilman’s epistolary novella The Yellow Wallpaper2 represent gender in a similar way‚ and demonstrate the influence of the male roles within the lives of the two protagonists; physically

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    In the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker the reader is immediately introduced to the harsh reality of Celie’s life‚ with the very first sentence being‚ “You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy.” From that point onwards the narrative follows young Celie from she raped and abused by the man she believes to be her father to becoming the wife of Mr._____ ‚ with his decision being almost solely based on the fact that their consummation agreement includes both her and a cow

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    Alice Walker states that ‘The Colour Purple’ remains for her the "theological work examining the journey from the religious back to the spiritual". How successful is she in revealing her purpose to the reader? <br> <br>In the preface to ‘the Colour Purple’ Walker identifies her religious development as the inspiration for her novel and labels religion and spirituality as the principle themes in the book. There are a number of principle characters who complete this journey however in many instances

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