THE COLOR PURPLE Alice Walker wrote this novel from her own personal experience, growing up in the rural South as an uneducated and abused child. ... In the novel Celie, the main character has to fight for her rights. ... In the novel she also uses color. The color purple is the color of royalty, which exemplifies the endless possibilities available to Celie and other black women if they stand up for their own rights. The Color Purple is a historical novel; it never refers to any factual events. ...

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The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a book about a young girl named Celie whose character undergoes a huge transformation in attitude from a passive and quite girl to a strong and courageously confident woman (Color 1). ... Throughout her life Walker went on to write many more books and win lots of awards, especially for her most famous book, The Color Purple. The Color Purple is said by many professionals to be Alice Walker's best piece of work. ... Peter Prescott comments in a Newsweek review that; "The Color Purple is an American novel of permanent importance, that rare sort of...

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The Color Purple Essay One of the most widely known and false stereotypes is that women belong in the kitchen, and men are suppose to make the money. In The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, there are some main characters that prove this stereotype wrong. ... "I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it. " I believe a woman being inferior to a man is our society's color purple. ...

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Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple to capture and illuminate the hardship and bitterness African American women had to face in the early 1900s. ... The Color Purple, was published in 1982. ... In The Color Purple, as in her other writings, Walker focuses on the theme of double repression of black women in the American experience. ... The primary theme of The Color Purple, though, reflects Walker's desire to project a positive outcome in life, even under the harshest conditions. ... In the screen translation of The Color Purple, Spielberg creates not only a faithful, but also a succes...

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The Women of Brewster Place and The Color Purple The Color Purple, is an epic tale of a woman's struggle to find equality, stability and freedom in a male dominated existence. ... Both "The Women of Brewster Place- and "The Color Purple- depict the battle of black women against the perils of society; these come in the form of abuse, discrimination, and poverty. In "The Color Purple-, Celie's development from innocence to awareness is a common theme. ... In "The Color Purple-, Cellie and Nettie both achieve their lifelong goals of togetherness and happiness. ... The central charac...

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The Colour Purple Chapter 1 The first few pages begin Walker's narrative of the life of Celie, a fourteen-year-old black girl who lives with her dying mother and her sister, Nettie. Her stepfather, Alfonso, is portrayed as the villain of the narrative, first demanding sex from Celie's sick mo...

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In Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The Color Purple," by , the main character Celie, is raised in a home where there has been a cycle of abuse for many generations. ... This is an example of just how powerful the Character Celie is in the novel, it shows that she started her life off in a cycle of abuse and then through hardships turned her life into something positive where she could help others. ... The character, Celie in "The Color Purple," shows how truly powerful women can be. Celie's character is so powerful by the way she has the ability to forgive the ones th...

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Assignment Revenge is the primary motivation in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple," and Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights." ... In Alice Walker's, "The Color Purple," protagonist Celie, takes revenge on a patriarchal society that has suppressed her by proving that she has the skill and independence to start her own business. ... Revenge is more subtle in "The Color Purple," than the blatant presentation of it found in Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," but the outcome seems more successful as the motive is less selfish. Bronte shows throughout her novel that revenge is not th...

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Celie developed a lot during the course of the book, The Color Purple. In the beginning of the novel Celie's character was subservient, almost unable to function in everyday life. ... At the end of The Color Purple Celie says, "I"m poor, I"m black, I may be ugly and I can't cook but I"m here"(214). ...

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Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" ... Written in the backdrop of the 20th century American patriarchal society is the epistolary novel 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker. ... The reason behind choosing The Color Purple is that it can be seen as both a feminist and a postcolonial novel and also because of how the protagonist, Celie meets through few of the aspects mentioned before. ... Alice Walker's The Color Purple touches on the triple problem of racism, ...

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So why would I choose the book, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, to illustrate my views on the "feminist approach" to literary theory? I believe The Color Purple to be the most complex, real and truthful novel I have ever read. ... Walker paints colourful characters in The Color Purple, each of them undergoing a series of changes. ... Walker managed to captivate me from the very first line in the book, and as I read on I found myself thinking The Color Purple to be a perfect way to illustrate feminism in literary criticism. ... I am interested to read more works by Walker, as I am sure she sh...

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Alice Walker takes on a feminist tone in The Color Purple, a novel about the struggles between salvation and independence in which she discusses the oppression of black women. ... Harpo realizes that Sofia's strong character will not fade and they separate. Her character eventually leads her to jail when she disrespects the mayor's wife. ... One of the themes of The Color Purple is love redeems, hate kills and for Walker, redemptive love requires female bonding. ... The only way for a male character to become a positive good is to practically become a woman. ...

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There are several consequences of 'The Color Purple' being written in epistolary style. ... Shug Avery is an important character in Celie's life as is evident from her letters. ... Another consequence of 'The Color Purple' being written in epistolary form is that it opens up the potential for interaction. ... "An important juncture in Alice Walker's 'The Colour Purple' is reached when Celie first recovers the missing letters from her long-lost sister Nettie. ... In conclusion, the epistolary form of the novel shows how Celie's character has...

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What is Color? ... Is the color you are on the outside, the color you are on the inside? ... But it's unfortunate that people even today are judged by the color of their skin and not the content of their character as Martin Luther King Jr. has said. ... Not black or white, green, or even yellow with purple polka dots, color is a disguise of a person's character, which is the one true thing on this earth that is very much under appreciated. So what color are you? ...

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Salvation in Unexpected Ways Three novels that stand out because of their main character's contributions to others are "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker, "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey, and "Sula" by Toni Morrison. The main characters Celie, R.P. ... In Alice Walker's novel, "The Color Purple", the main character Celie acts as a human shield to protect her younger sister Nettie from abuse. ... The three novels "The Color Purple", "Sula" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" all have something in common. They all contain a character that in some way affect...

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Is Alice Walker the Symbolism Behind The Color Purple? ... The title, The Color Purple has a very big significance in the book. ... Celie is the main character of the novel, The Color Purple. ... Alice Walker is the symbolism behind the title The Color Purple. Everything needs to be noticed, even the color purple. ...

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The characters of Celie, Shug Avery, and Sofia reflect these aspects in different ways in the novel. ... Acquiescence and subversion are two important subjects exhibit in African Americans, and in the novel "The Color Purple," by Alice Walker these subjects are portrayed by three different female characters: Celie, Shug Avery, and Sofia. ... She is an African American woman who shows a vulnerable character and has almost no right to say any word due to her race and the way she has been raised. ... The character of Shug Avery and the subject of subversion are exposed when she demonstrates h...

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In Island of la 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 some green. This use of color was still very untraditional. His use of light goes hand in hand...

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It is interesting to note that all the toys and all the boxes showed only white characters. ... Color in toys for example is one way to easily identify weather a toy is meant for a boy or a girl. ... This section as you well know is inundated with the colors pink and purple. ... For example the two Power Wheels Jeeps are completely identical except for the color the one perceived as the Boys is blue with black wheels and where as the one perceived as the Girls is pink with purple tires. Pink and Purple are perceived as feminine colors and therefore are placed on the boxes and items that are ...

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They were accredited with making glass from coastal sand, and for extracting a widely admired purple dye called "Tyrian Purple" from a tiny sea snail. This color became their trademark, and eventually became the favorite color of royalty. ... With 550 characters, the cumbersome cuneiform alphabet was to tedious to deal with. ...

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In this paper I approached types and forms of makeup that are very diverse, both for lips and eyes and as well for the complexion and I wrote about the myriad of makeup types adapted to different women with different characters and with different inclinations.   ... Blue, purple and green are known as cold colors, they inspire calm and relaxation, but can still arouse feelings of anger or indifference. ... In hospitals, medical clothing is white, the bridal dress on the wedding day is all white, a white dove represents a happy marriage and a prosperous business, a white fence is a symbol of ...

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Henry Selick, the director, went through countless variations of Coraline in order to find what body shape, hair color, etc. would fit best with the character. ... They are used to contrast the real world, which is made up of dull colors, such as pale blue, grey, and white, with the "other" world, which is composed (at least at first) of smooth textures and vivid colors, including orange, deep blue, pink, or purple. Moreover, the changing textures of the tunnel connecting the two worlds (at first, bright purple, then, full of dust and bumps) also add to the dramatic aspect of the f...

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Being that this was stated in the ad, the main character of our advertisement had an enormous fear of using tampons, possibly because foreign objects in small places can be intruding and painful. ... An interesting fact came to mind while examining this ad, focus not so much on what's on display but what color. Purple, from previous knowledge of my art classes in high school, is a color that signifies wealth. ... I think that the advertisers added this color to the ad itself so we do look at it, even though most people do not know the back round on the color purple, they do notice a contr...

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The Color Purple and The Joy Luck Club portray a similar theme, because female main characters experience personal misfortunes and male/female relationships which ultimately lead to the discovery of their true identity. One of the main characters, Celie, in The Color Purple experiences many personal misfortunes which eventually lead to the discovery of her true identity. ... The Joy Luck Club is a compilation of many different life stories narrated by a variety of eight main characters. ... A second example of a personal misfortune a main character has to experience is within the story, ...

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Characterization is a significant quality or feature given to a character in a story. ... The seventh room, which no guest would dare enter, was decorated in black, but the windows were a deep blood color. ... This symbolizes the rising and setting sun, which rises in the East and sets in the West Each room's color symbolizes something. ... The purple room stands for innocence. ...

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