... Grande Jatte, Seurat's blending techniques are easier to visualize in the use of shadows; he would play with the color by defining which color he would use next depending on the color that he already used and how he could either complement it or contrast it. We can appreciate his technique in the thick skirts of the women which Seurat made to cast a yellowish-like shadow before ... transitioning to the next color, along with all the folds in them that were a mix of blue, purple and ... were rigid toy soldiers. Another good example of this are the people close to the river and the ones ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Color Purple is a contemporary, epistolary novel, set in the harsh, segregated world of the Deep South between the wars. Walker's use of letters or 'epistles' exchanged between characters, speaking to each other in an informal colloquial vocabulary, brings them to life and allows them to speak to each other directly. The author's irregular spelling contributes to this belief by emphasizing the characters' unique speech patterns, "Fonso, I ain't well...Naw I ain ... African American heritage. Walker's writings, she admits, came from her own sense of herself as 'ugly, deformed and unlovable...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate