English 102.013 11/13/09 The Power of a Female Relationship In the book The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker shows us different themes in the book. The one theme that stood out the most was the relationship between the sisters and friends that met along the way. Reading this book I have seen different types of relationships such as‚ motherly‚ sisterly‚ and also womanly. Walker refers to the relationship between Cecile and Nettie as a motherly relationship because when Cecile’s mother dies she feels
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Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and The Color Purple by Alice Walker prove this quote true. Throughout The Lovely Bones‚ a family struggles with the dreadful murder and rape of a family member. The book demonstrates how the family only got stronger with the passage of time. Their success in moving forward in life regardless of their encounter with such an evil act emphasizes the victory of good over evil. In addition to The Lovely Bones‚ the book The Color Purple clearly displays the brutality two sisters
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In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple‚ many emotions are evoked within the story. Many themes and character qualities are suggested through the use of symbolism. One of the most prominent symbols utilized within this story is the allegory of color. Walker uses different colors to illustrate various moods and the personality themes of certain characters. One may find it interesting to discover that these colors are sentiments about the way people in the novel are represented. In the story‚ Celie
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Purple Book Blue Life “The Color Purple” written by Alice Walker‚ and published in 1982 won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1983. It illustrates the hardships and emotional trauma that came with growing up and living as an African-American woman. It also addresses many issues within american social culture and gender roles. The novel centers upon the growth and development of a girl named Celie. She was raped at 14 by her own father and then forced into a marriage with a nefarious apathetic older
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What’s Black‚ White‚ and The Color Purple? “First he put his thing up against my hip and sort of wiggle it around. Then he grab hold my titties. Then he push his thing inside my pussy. When that hurt‚ I cry. He start to choke me‚ saying You better shut up and get used to it.”(Walker 1). If you as a parent took The Color Purple off the shelves and just opened the book you would begin by reading the quote above. As a parent who just opens the book and reads the first two pages‚ already‚ based
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Annotated Bibliography – The Color Purple by Alice Walker "Cultivating Black Lesbian Shamelessness: Alice Walker ’s The Color Purple." Literary Points of View . N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 5 Nov. 2013. . This review has great relevance to my research. It provides a detailed background into the historical aspect of this novel‚ and what the ideas‚ themes and issues this book talks about are based off of. This review talks about articulating sexuality and opposing salvation‚ but also how this
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based on what we see first‚ and most of the time an important factor is skin color. Social racism is known as the discrimination or intolerance of people of other races or skin colors. Racism occurs in many ways; however‚ it is not always obvious. Where did this type of behavior begin? Racial prejudice has many causes and effects from and on society that are inevitable. There are many ideas thrown around as to how racism began‚ though the truth lies in the historical facts. From slavery‚ to imperialism
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powerful; you just need to know how to use your power appropriately. I agree with this quote because most people that are great are not the strongest. Instead they use what they have to become great. The quote can be seen in The Color Purple by Alice Walker. In The Color Purple‚ the protagonist Celie lives through a lot of conflict. For most of her life‚ she has been beaten by her stepfather and Mr.____. Her stepfather would beat her “cause he say I winked at a boy in church.” (Walker 5) Mr.____
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Maya Kennedy 10/24/14 English AP The Color Purple by:Alice Walker Genre: ● Epistolary novel‚ confessional novel Historical Text: ● By this time in history slavery was long outlawed but its effects were still felt heavily by those African Americans still living in the southern United States. Segregation was imposed strictly‚ and entire black populations lived “isolated from white society”. They “had to sit in separate parts of movie houses‚ drink out of separate fountains‚ and could not eat at white lunch counters”
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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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