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    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 soon makes a small business making pants. At the end of the novel she finally meets her children and Nettie after so many long years. Celie becomes more independent because of Shug’s support and thoughts. In the end Celie’s change into a talking topic who makes her personal decisions. But this article really hit

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    Throughout Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple the character Albert experiences the most change in moral development. The change that Albert experiences is caused by other characters. Albert undergoes change through change occurring to Celie in her views of herself. Celie tells Shug Avery that she is beaten by Albert "for being me and not you"(Walker 75). Albert treats her badly for being a women and not thinking more highly of herself. Whenever she’s called ugly she just listens to it

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    I chose the movie The Color Purple because the story is centered on the life of African-American women‚ who experienced issues with family bonding. This young lady was faced with many hardship and struggles that began in the home with her family. The storyline behind how this young girl was sexually and mentally abused by her father. The abuse continued later on when she was forced to marry an older man with young children of his own. Throughout her struggles with self-worth and her own identity

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    she then viewed men as anything other than human. Because of men‚ she has greatly suffered‚ which is why Celie is happier with women in her life than men. “I don’t even look at mens. That’s the truth. I look at women‚ tho‚ cause I’m not scared of them” (7). “They have made three babies together but he squeamish bout giving her a bath. Maybe he figure he start thinking about things he shouldn’t. But what bout me? First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples

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    There is nothing left of the skull‚ all of the humanity has been ripped out of the skull. Nothing lays there except for bone. Not only does Sheers hint at death but also the idea of life. When we think of birds and eggs we think of life and nurturing. Once the soldiers go to battle this is taken away from them‚ they’re never going to be able to have their own children. The possibilities to new life are gone. Not only did the men die as a country‚ but as a team too. All of the soldiers are ‘all mimicked

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    reader with historical information and relevance to ones life while using interesting language and original literary devices. If a book entails these qualities‚ I believe that it is worthy enough to be taught within schools. The epistolary The Color Purple is worthy of Literary Merit. It illustrates real life situations that have

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    The color purple demonstrates the feminist struggle one woman over comes. Limitations placed for not only being a woman but being an African American woman enhance the severity of Celie’s battles against society. Celine faces multiple demeaning challenges that cause her to become very passive around others. She was raped at least twice by her own father‚ and had two children which were stripped from her arms and sold at a very youthful age. Celine later is raped again by her husband who her father

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    Kaitlyn Queen AP English IV Mrs. Conner In the two novels‚ The Color Purple and The Bluest Eye‚ the authors Alice Walker and Toni Morrison similarly observe the negative life effects caused by physical‚ sexual‚ and verbal abuse that can be destructive to the human mind and produce a shame within oneself as well as shaming from others. Both novels are set in the 1900s‚ presenting a racist and sexist environment that contributes to the dehumanization/ degeneration of a human being. In addition‚ love

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    Alice Walker’s The Color Purple From reading the extract from The Color Purple‚ the reader is shocked almost straight away from how the character/narrator (who in this case is the author Alice Walker) is treated and brought up by her father. The way in which the story is told is in the form of letters and a kind of diary addressed to god as she is told "You better not tell anybody but god it’ll kill your mammy". The reader can almost sense that this was written and was never expected to be

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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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