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    use to convey complex deeper meanings. Symbolism is the act of representing ideas using symbols‚ like the Mockingjay in the “The Hunger Games” or the scar in Harry Potter. One such book that loves to use symbolism is the drama based play the “Raisin in The Sun” Written by Lorraine Hansberry. The story is about a poor black family struggling in South Chicago during the Great Depression. The Younger Family gets a $10‚000 dollar insurance settlement which they hope will greatly improve their lives. Unfortunately

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    Explore how Walker’s manipulation of Celie’s voice conveys attitudes towards the relationship with Shug Avery & Examine how the novel as a whole shows how these attitudes are shaped by the society in which the characters live Throughout The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker manipulates Celie’s voice in a variety of ways in order to convey the different attitudes she possesses towards Shug Avery. As the exposition of the novel progresses‚ Walker initially represents Celie as a vulnerable‚ oppressed character

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    Raising in the sun Walter I have dissected something that looked like you yesterday”(30). This statement made by Beneatha to her brother Walter was missing from the new movie. the novel A Raisin in the Sun was a story of hope‚ legacy‚ racism and dreams for individual people and how they want to achieve them. It is a book that tell you the story of African American people in the 1940’s and what little they had back then and how hard they had to work to achieve their goals.There is more than one

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    Proposal for delivery of culturally competent services "The Color Purple" Team D BSHS/422 April 23‚ 2012 Jennifer Brennan Proposal for delivery of culturally competent services "The Color Purple" The Color Purple is a story set in the 1900s about an African American Culture of people who endured hardships involving sexual and physical abuse‚ and gender related oppression‚ at a time when Black people were free yet still feared and segregated. The main characters of the story are: Celie

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    Theme #1 Alice Walker uses several different techniques in her writing to get her point across to the reader. The use of conflict in the novel‚ “The Color Purple”‚ helps the author portray how society was during this time. The main conflict brought up in “The Color Purple” is based on the society’s views of gender‚ race‚ and ageism. The American society in the south was heavily one-sided on these topics‚ as the author describes in this book. Women during this time are looked down upon and unappreciated

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    school‚ and start figuring out what we want to do for a living. College is the perfect breeding ground for this. For some people‚ I know they are just looking for partying and sex‚ but then you have the smart‚ bright mind like Beneatha. In A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Beneatha dreams of going to college and becoming a doctor. Her brother‚ Walter‚ heckles her about how she should just give up her dream and become a housewife; but Beneatha doesn’t let this affect her because she is smart

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    of put back for the greater good of the family‚ or for some outside obstacle they had to overcome. This poem shows the real meaning of the play because it showed the internal and external struggles each one of the characters had. First‚ a raisin in the sun is about the struggle through tough times and racism‚ people’s transformations‚ and following your dreams even when things are difficult. Like the poem mother to son‚ it tells of the struggles of life and how although it may not always be easy

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    He uses five similes in Harlem: “like a raisin in the sun‚ like as sore‚ does it stink like rotten meat‚ like a syrupy sweet‚ like a heavy load”. Then he uses a metaphor: “or does it explode”. All of these comparisons make me image the things he is comparing. You can visualize‚ smell‚ taste‚ and feel these things. The point of this poem is what happens to a dream deferred. Lorraine Hansberry used this one line taken from the poem “Harlem” to compare the raisin to life. There was a lot of things

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    Raisin in the Sun Essay In life‚ people feel they are not important and valued without money. Walter Younger is no exception‚ he thinks that if he has money he has everything. Walter wanted to be a provider for the family and planned on doing so by investing in a liquor store with the insurance check from his dad’s death. However‚ he can’t because the money did not belong to him but it belongs to Mama. Later on his mother decides to give him the remaining insurance money and Walter entrusts it

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    Walker’s use of language to present Celie’s impression of Shug. Examine how the manipulation of language contributes to our understanding of the significance of Shug to Celie. Shug’s significance to Celie plays a pivotal role in the novel ‘The Color Purple. Through Walker’s use of language‚ we understand the importance of this significance‚ which helps to develop Celie’s character throughout and is already prominent in letter 22. Firstly‚ we understand that Shug’s arrival excites Celie a lot and

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