Cruelty plays a pivotal role in main characters as they progress and mature throughout the plot and development of the story. In the epistolary classic‚ The Color Purple‚ author Alice Walker documents Celie’s experience from cruelty by her Georgia neighborhood‚ the people most closest to her‚ and the societal structure that impacts each of the characters. After being sent to marital consent by her stepfather‚ Alphonso‚ without her will‚ the fragile protagonist engages in friendships with powerful-minded
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Three Messages in The Color Purple: Standing Up‚ Helping Others and Taking Charge The novel‚ The Color Purple is so important. It is all about growth‚ and change‚ and making a difference. Sofia‚ Shug‚ and Celie are all making a difference in the world‚ even though they don’t know it. These courageous women are standing up for each other‚ taking control and trying to make the world a better place. Sofia stands up for herself‚ no matter what‚ Shug Avery helps out someone in desperate need‚ and Celie
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wildly important because African Americans were not treated the same as the white race‚ much less women. Celie is able to overcome all the race stereotypes that were a part of the society and environment in which she lived in. Love is a theme in The Color Purple as well. In the story‚ love is not only romantic but also familial. Celie feels love towards her sisterhood (Gupta‚ 2010) Nettie‚ who she protects and looks over all the time. Both her Pa and Mr.___ show no love towards Celie‚ but she experiences
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Set during the early 20th century in the rural south‚ the novel‚ The Color Purple by Alice Walker‚ portrays the life of a poor African American woman named Celie. Since being published in 1982‚ this novel was won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for Fiction‚ but is also considered highly controversial because of the references to sexual abuse and female empowerment. Throughout the book‚ the reader learns from the unexpected events that accumulate Celie’s journey to self-awareness
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Background History and Context of ‘The Color Purple’ “The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife‚ -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood‚ to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American...” (W.E.B. Du Bois) The African-Americans or the ‘Black Americans’ are members of those ethnic groups in the United States that
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In the book “the color purple” by Alice walker she uses ironic devices to show that celie was abused mentally and physically. While she had endure the abuse it becomes worse as time passed and she felt hopeless in trying to protect herself. As shown in the book the main protagonist tells her story in a diary. In the Color Purple many ironic devices are used to show the true meaning of the book.The ironic that the author used are situational irony and symbolism. The situational irony plays a big part
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I believe to express one’s thoughts and feelings is hard to developing a sense of self‚ Celie took so much abuse and couldn’t do nothing about it makes her so strong. They would do celie so wrong so many times was horrible‚ I can’t believe her own step father abused her and raped her. The abuse to women is horrible and their needs to be a big change or a very bad consequences. Girls who are raped or abused really have no chance to stop it they can’t fight against a grown man he is too
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"classics" for books that are treasured by those who have read and loved them; but they are treasured no less by those who have the luck to read them for the first time in the best conditions to enjoy them‚" stated Italo Calvino. The novel "The Color Purple" written by Alice Walker is suggested to be a classic book‚ for it’s reflect on the social conflicts‚ its writing structure and the complexity of the plot. Celie being the protagonist and narrator is face with many struggles from being rape and
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Purple America America was in its prime in the 1920’s. A time of many drastic changes‚ 1920’s Americans enjoyed a booming economy‚ a prosperous and wealthy upper-class society‚ and general international and national peace. For African Americans; however‚ the 1920’s meant facing economic struggle‚ racial prejudices‚ and gender stereotypes. In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple‚ the main character Celie experiences many boundaries within the workforce‚ domestics‚ and society of the 1920’s. Through many
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the abuse patriarchy make a person reshape through the Silent of their Voice The Color Purple by Alice Walker portrays a black woman who starts off in the narrative as a powerless object and who later on becomes a woman with a strong identity. In setting of the novel is in the early 1900‚ Jim Crow is the time. Black women were treated poorly by whites and by the black men within their community. In The Color Purple‚ Walker demonstrates the woman as an object treated badly by whites’ society and
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