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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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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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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historical moments serve as a good purpose to allow such a novel to be included in the high school curriculum. As a novel as timeless and beautiful as The Color Purple‚ it may not be suitable for the high school level. Due to its sexual content‚ and themes of abuse‚ this novel does not belong in the high school curriculum. Throughout the novel The Color Purple‚ sexual assault is a main focus in which the novel gives graphic detail. In the beginning of the novel‚ main protagonist Celie is raped by her father
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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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Criticism and Reflection of the Color Purple by Alice Walker Criticized as a novel containing graphic violence‚ sexuality‚ sexism‚ and racism‚ The Color Purple was banned in several schools across the United States. Crude language and explicit detail chronicle the life of Celie‚ a young black woman subjected to society’s cruelties. Although immoral‚ the events and issues discussed in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple are prominent in today’s society‚ and must be public and conversed rather
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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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In the movie The Village it had a bunch of different symbols through out the whole movie but the main one was the color red. In the beginning it showed two girls dancing and sweeping and just having fun while doing both at the same time‚ but one of them suddenly stopped because of what she saw‚ it was a little bush of red berries or maybe a red flower but she and the other girl rushed over there and pulled it out of the ground and buried it then went back to sweeping. The little village that was
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The Power of Sisterhood: A Feminist Reading of The Color Purple In The Color Purple‚ there is clearly a Feminist Criticism approach displayed. In the opening pages‚ Alice Walker‚ examines the injustice and abuse felt by the main characters through descriptions of the events in which they suffer though. These actions interestingly follow along with the meanings of feminist Criticism. “Feminist criticism examines the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine
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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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