Alice Walker creates an ambience of hardship and self discovery in the book The Color Purple, and she does it through the descriptive journal entries of a young girl named Celie who is trying to find herself as she begins growing into a young woman. ... Alice Walker faced the same hardships, She was married to a Jewish civil rights lawyer. He demonstrated several acts of male dominance over Alice. ... (Walker 125). ... Alice Walker once questioned why God kept on letting bad things happen to her when she was accidentally shot in the eye by a bb gun when she was younger by her brother. ...

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Is Alice Walker the Symbolism Behind The Color Purple? Alice Walker's novel, The Color Purple is a reflection of Walker's own personal struggles in life. ... 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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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. ... Alice Walker sold the rights to her story because she felt it was important for those who wouldn't ...

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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. ... Another major theme in Walker's novel is the power of strong female relationships. ... 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 There is much controversy about weather or not the book, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, is an appropriate reading material for the high school classrooms. ... Additionally, it was not uncomfortable discussing any of the content of The Color Purple aloud in class. ... In conclusion, I consider Alice Walker's The Color Purple, to be a suitable novel for a high school classroom to read. ...

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The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, is a fictional story that took place in the South during the early to mid 1900's. ... In The Color Purple, Alice Walker leads protagonist Celie on a journey of self-discovery where she has to overcome different obstacles because of her gender, race, and class. ... The women in The Color Purple are all expected to abide by certain standards that differ from the men. ... " (Walker 97). ... The Color Purple, by Alice Walker paints a descriptive picture of a colored person during the Jim Crow and Reconstruction Era. ...

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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). ... Alice Walker was born on February 9th, 1944 to Willie Lee and Minnie Grant Walker in Eatonton, Georgia. ... 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. ... Throughout the book The...

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Alice Walker does not like to be called a feminist. ... 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. ... I am interested to read more works by Walker, as I am sure she shall tackle the issues as she has done so effectively in The Color Purple. ...

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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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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. ... However, Walker shows that Celie's act of reven...

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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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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. Alice Walker likes to call herself a 'womanist'3 writer, which as described by her is a 'feminist of color or a black feminist'. ... The term 'womanist' was coined and was first used by the poet and author Alice Walker. ... Alice Walker's The Color Purple ...

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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. ... Celie Writes to Nettie in letter at the end of the novel "Here us is, I thought, two old fools left over from love, keeping each other company under the stars"" (Walker, 238), Celie believes that even though Mr._ has done her wrong he is still a person that makes mistakes and learns from them. ... In the novel, Celie writes to Nettie saying that she is starting to forgive Mr._: "After all the evil he done, I...

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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. Through the relationship between black men and black women, Walker portrays the prejudice that black women have to face. ... One of the themes of The Color Purple is love redeems, hate kills and for Walker, redemptive love requires female bonding. ... Alice Walker contrasts the ugliness of men with the healthy bondage of women to discuss the frustration of black women's struggle for independence. ...

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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. ... 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. ... He beat me for dressing trampy but he do it to me anyway" (Walker 8). ... The three novels "The Color Purple", "Sula" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" all have something in common. ...

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There are several consequences of 'The Color Purple' being written in epistolary style. ... It'd kill your mammy" (Walker, A., 1982). ... 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. ... " (Walker, A., 1982). ...

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Schmidt Honors English II 17 September 2002 The Color Purple, by Alice Walker is a historical novel showing how an uneducated, fourteen-year-old black girl living in rural Georgia between 1910 through 1940 can overcome years of abuse and betrayal, and become an independent, confident woman. ... The Color Purple is set in Rural Georgia during 1910 through 1940. ... Miz Millie says to Sofia, "Have you ever seen a white person and a colored sitting side by side in car, when one of "em wasn't showing the other one how to drive it or clean it" (Walker 109). ... She enjoys and appreciate...

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In comparison, the novels "Indian Horse," by Richard Wagamese and "The Color Purple," by Alice Walker, display how the protagonists overcome obstacles of abuse through the connection between them and their loved ones. ... The sexual assault affects her physically as her body begins to transform: "When I start to hurt and then my stomach start moving and then that little baby come out of my pussy chewing on its fist, you could have knock me over with a feather I got breasts full of milk running down myself" (Walker 12). ... " (Walker 79) Albert and Celie's sex life is not l...

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For example, from Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, Alice writes about the pain and experiences that she has faced or has witnessed. Alice writes, "Your daddy didn't know how to git along, he say. ... Both Alice and Quincy relate to literacy from there own lives and experiences. ... When reading from the book The Color Purple, what one gains from the text can be different then what many others may gain from this kind of text. Alice Walker uses exclusionary language. ...

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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. ...

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These specific pieces of work became a great influence on well-known writers such as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gayle Jones, Alice Walker and Toni Cade Bambara. Alice Walker claimed that if Their Eyes are Watching God was never published, her award winning novel, The Color Purple, would have never been created. ... If it was not for Walker resurrecting Hurston's literature, it would have never gotten to be appreciated in today's world (Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston's Transforming Visions). ... The writer who had made such a statement during her lifetime was buried in an...

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Despite the odds, women can overcome all obstacles. In the past, women have desperately struggled because men belittled them. They were thought of as ignorant beings that only knew how to manage housework. In The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, several women were extremely mistreated by men....

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Comparatively, the death of her mother for Celie in 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker is void of any sort of emotional attachment. Walker employs short sentences and avoids any extensive displays of adjective language to convey death as normality for Celie – something she is desensitized to, even in regard of her own mother. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate