Comparison Essay : The Bluest Eye And The Color Purple

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I’m comparing the book the bluest eye and the movie the color purple by comparing the lives of both main characters celia (the color purple) and pecola (the bluest eye). I will compare how pecola and celia got raped, i will also compare how they have both been mistreated by men in that age and i will include more about how they grew up and the struggles they went through being women in that time period, including how they both are trying to archive something and there are many obstacles in the way. The men in the story are very dominant. They both emerge in a lustful desire to hurt their loved’ ones. In the color purple celie's mother is raped constantly by her husband, sadly she dies to illness. this causes celie’s father to start raping her and she has starts to picture that her own father killed her mother. Soon after her mother dies he gets another wife and wants celie to leave. This is what lead her to albert johnson her husband. This is where more abuse started. Mr.johnson only married her because he wanted someone to serve him and his two children.he believes that the best way to keep a woman in place is to beat her and that way of thinking influenced his whole life. This related to cholly in the bluest eye because cholly in general is very violent. He never had a father or a mother and he was raised by his aunt jimmy. He always had a strong hatred for women. The first time he had sex with a women some white police officers found him and made it

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