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    Raydeen Cruz - Pathos Lucrezia della Pietra - Ethos Lissette Izaguirre – Logos (Lead) Dr. Leiby English 1A – 6422 14 March 2018 TITLE: TO BE DECIDED Alice Walker is an African American woman whose artistic abilities are showcased through her published novels, essays, and poems. One of Walker’s essays written in 1974, exemplifies her search for the origin of her creativity as well as the struggle for freedom of expression that women of color have experienced throughout history. In Alice…

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    Alice Walker, in full Alice Malsenior Walker was born on 9th February 1944 in Eatonton Georgia U.S. and is now one of the country’s best-selling writers of literary fiction. Alice walker’s life was life of any African American in 1940s. She was deprived of all the basic amenities and discrimination was rampant all around, which Alice later started expressing through her short stories, novel, poems etc. More than ten million copies of her books are in print." Walker has now become a focal…

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    In the track “God Help the Outcasts,” Esmerelda sings a song of prayer, asking God for help. It shows us how helpless and desperate Esmerelda is, how hopelessly trapped she was in the cathedral and how hopeless the situation of the gypsies seems like. The composers made this song into a prayer, metaphorically describing how no one on earth will have helped them. The part of the song where the other characters in the cathedral sing shows how genuine Esmerelda’s prayer is. The others ask for…

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    pursue a freedom of her own. Sofia also takes a “looking glass” (Walker, 67). Mirrors are very important when it comes to hoodoo and conjure. Mirrors can protect one from spells and may be used to reverse spells and hexes that one has been placed under. This mention of a mirror may symbolize and foreshadow the protection Sofia may need in the future. Also in this chapter, Sofia’s sisters are described to be “big strong healthy girls” (Walker, 67). And these girls deliver Sofia to her new found…

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    Alice Walker Feminist

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    Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, and Zora Neale Hurston are prominent black women authors in contemporary American literature. These three women share their experiences living in the South during a time of racism. Each of them has a distinct writing style. All include an insight into experiences similar to ones they have gone through and the impact it makes on black women in society. “Feminism’s second wave in the United States—initially a reflection of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and…

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    Walker presents various aspects of her characters to establish how they develop throughout the story. Maggie, for example, can be classified as a developing character because of her personality/behavior change that is noticed as the story progresses. At…

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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote her book, Purple Hibiscus, through the eyes of a teenage girl, Kambili. Papa’s two children, Jaja and Kambili start out as extremely sheltered and structured children. As the novel progresses the two of them go to live with their aunty Ifeoma for a couple of weeks. As soon as they arrive, they begin to change drastically as they both begin to find themselves. Both Jaja and Kambili start to become more independent because their aunty Ifeoma allows them to have…

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    Color Purple Shug Quotes

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    Shug Avery is a pivotal character in Alice Walker's the color purple due to the affect she has on Celie and Albert. Shug helps Celie define who she is as a person and change her outlook upon life and the current situations that she's facing. She also has a very special relationship with Albert spanning back many years into both their youths. Shug is used in the book as a character designed to further move the plot and show the mentality changes in Celie and Albert over the course of the book.She…

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    Throughout history there have been many depictions of the struggles that black women face and how those struggles are overcome. Alice Walker’s novel “The Color Purple” showcases Celie’s journey of self-discovery and the struggles that must be overcome in order to find one’s self. Celie has many different relationships with the minor characters, such as Mr._, who shows Celie that people can change, Sofia & Harpo, who reverse gender roles and show Celie the error in her ways, Nettie & Shug who…

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    The younger generations may not know what a wonderful person Paul Newman is but this is the reason for writing this paper about his life and established career. He is a local who shot to stardom and became a household name in both acting and business. I am here to tell you about his early life, his acting career, and the race car driver whom he lived to be. Who would have known that someone from Ohio could be so successful. Paul Leonard Newman, the second son, was born in Shaker…

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