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    Celie In The Color Purple

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    The Development of Celie`s personality due to the Impact of other Women in the Novel The Color Purple “I`m pore‚ I`m black‚ I may be ugly and I can`t cook‚ a voice say to everything listening. But I`m here.” (p. 210) In the beginning of the book “The Color Purple”‚ the protagonist‚ Celie‚ is a ruined desperate woman. Her sole has been injured by her father`s violence‚ endless rules and orders‚ which she is forced to follow and ignorant indifferent people‚ who never show any concern for her

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    CELIE IN THE COLOR PURPLE

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    Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten Sofia Sundqvist The Emancipation of Celie: The Color Purple as a womanist Bildungsroman Engelska C-uppsats Termin: Handledare: Karlstads universitet 651 88 Karlstad Tfn 054-700 10 00 Fax 054-700 14 60 Information@kau.se www.kau.se 1(18) Vårterminen 2006 Maria Holmgren-Troy The Emancipation of Celie: The Color Purple as a womanist Bildungsroman In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple‚ the protagonist Celie undergoes a remarkable personal change. She evolves from being joyless

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    Color Purple Character Notes Pages 1-80 For each character‚ take notes and make inferences about each character. Cite textual evidence to support your inferences. Due Tuesday via Turnitin.com by 11pm Character Your Analysis (Make an inference about the character‚ support it with textual evidence). Use CERC Strategy. Celie In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple‚ the author presents the character Celie. Celie is uneducated and lives in a abusive home. Through her struggles she is very selfless in

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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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    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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    Alice Walker portrays the tough life of the main character Celie. Celie at a young age is raped by Pa then marries Mr.__ who does the same‚ he takes Nettie’s letters from her until she finds out and gets them back. She confronts him showing how far she has come to speaking up and showing courage. While married to Mr.__ she meets Shug who she soon falls in love with her. She makes her become herself and they move off to Memphis after Pa dies she inherits her the home and the dry goods store and

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    The Color Purple The story The Color Purple is about a fourteen-year-old girl name Celie who was raped repeatedly by a man whom she was lead to believe as her father majority of her life later only to find out later after her mother’s death he was not. At the time she believed that her father was her father so finding out that her father‚ Alphonso was not her father made her relieved being that she had gave birth to two children whom she believed was her brother and sister. Celie experienced rape

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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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    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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    Marisha Twillie The Color Purple The Color Purple is a story written by Alice Walker and is about the life of an African American woman named Celie who lived in the South. Celie wrote about all the horrible events that have happened in her life such as getting raped by her stepfather‚ her children being taken away and sold‚ and how she was beat by her husband Mister. This is not only a story about growing up into womanhood but about the lives and stories of African American women from the

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