Zachary Bramers
McCloud
Gate 3-4
5 August 2015
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
June 27, 2015 This week I started reading The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The sentences change from long and short all the time. And the sentences have a lot of slang in them. This is because Celie the main character who is also telling the story is uneducated. I know this because she says this “He set there by the bed holding her hand cryin, talking bout don’t leave me, don’t go”(24). This book is very different to what I am used to reading. It doesn’t have any chapters, instead every few pages it will say “Dear…..” . I think Alice walker writes the book like this to make it seem like the reader is reading letters. This story begins with 14 year old Celie …show more content…
The sentences are long and have some slang in them and also have words that were difficult and I didn’t understand. In this sentence, “The pawnbroker ignored me as I went back and forth to the car”(413). I did not understand the word powerbroker in this sentence. Like The Color Purple by Alice Walker this book does not have any chapters called chapters. instead of chapters it has very big chapters with kind of like their own titles. An example of that is like this chapter title “Citizenship in the home”(219). I believe that Tobias Wolff writes the story like this because every big chapter focuses on what the title of the chapter is saying. Like in the chapter “Citizenship in the home” the story tells the reader about Toby the main character trying to find his own place in his home and being in his room. I know this because of this Quote “ I was sitting up in bed, eating a sandwich, when Dwight came to my room”(418). The story begins with Toby and his mom, Rosemary on a road trip to escape Toby’s abusive father Roy. Toby and his mom are trying to get to Salt Lake City to start a new life together. Since Toby and his mother are starting a new life, Toby decides to change his name to Jack, after his favorite author Jack London. For the time Toby is living in salt lake city he attends a catholic school. After living in salt lake city for a while Roy follows Jack, (Toby) to the
McCloud
Gate 3-4
5 August 2015
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
June 27, 2015 This week I started reading The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The sentences change from long and short all the time. And the sentences have a lot of slang in them. This is because Celie the main character who is also telling the story is uneducated. I know this because she says this “He set there by the bed holding her hand cryin, talking bout don’t leave me, don’t go”(24). This book is very different to what I am used to reading. It doesn’t have any chapters, instead every few pages it will say “Dear…..” . I think Alice walker writes the book like this to make it seem like the reader is reading letters. This story begins with 14 year old Celie …show more content…
The sentences are long and have some slang in them and also have words that were difficult and I didn’t understand. In this sentence, “The pawnbroker ignored me as I went back and forth to the car”(413). I did not understand the word powerbroker in this sentence. Like The Color Purple by Alice Walker this book does not have any chapters called chapters. instead of chapters it has very big chapters with kind of like their own titles. An example of that is like this chapter title “Citizenship in the home”(219). I believe that Tobias Wolff writes the story like this because every big chapter focuses on what the title of the chapter is saying. Like in the chapter “Citizenship in the home” the story tells the reader about Toby the main character trying to find his own place in his home and being in his room. I know this because of this Quote “ I was sitting up in bed, eating a sandwich, when Dwight came to my room”(418). The story begins with Toby and his mom, Rosemary on a road trip to escape Toby’s abusive father Roy. Toby and his mom are trying to get to Salt Lake City to start a new life together. Since Toby and his mother are starting a new life, Toby decides to change his name to Jack, after his favorite author Jack London. For the time Toby is living in salt lake city he attends a catholic school. After living in salt lake city for a while Roy follows Jack, (Toby) to the