Alice B. Toklas

The Color Purple could really have 10 different themes but the one that made most sense was the power of love and Alice Walker really nailed it. The book is centered around Celie, the main character whom at the beginning of the story is 14 years old. At the beginning love isn't a thing for her especially with her father Alphonso who rapes her and disregards her. As the story comes along Celie begins to build a relationship with Shug Avery and her sister Nettie which leads her to learn the true…

To begin with, the book ‘The Color Purple’ is composed by Alice Walker set between the 1960s or early 1970s, a confused time period when African Americans were coping with defining and grabbing control of their social, cultural, and political identity in American society. The book tells a story about a tangled of woman linked by their strong affection for each other, men with corruption, and the children they have responsibility for. In the beginning of the letters, Celie confessed to God about…

The novel, The Color Purple, was set in a time period when African Americans and women struggled. African Americans were the inferior race and women were looked at as the inferior gender. The main character, Celie, just so happened to be both and suffered a great deal of problems. Her story had a bad start and it just spiraled from there. Celie was raped by her “Pa” and it took a toll on her whole life. She wrote letters to God to express her feelings and used the letters as a “safe haven.”…

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is about a young girl named Susie Salmon in Pennsylvania who is raped and murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey on December 6, 1973 and watches her family and friends cope with her untimely death. Susie has a family of five, her included. Abigail, Jack, Lindsey, and Buckley. One day as she is walking home on her own, Mr. Harvey convinces her to come inside a hole he made in a cornfield. “It’s dark Susie,” he said. (3) When she is in the hole he says, “‘Take your…

Period of Grief The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold follows the life of Susie Salmon, who is the victim of a brutal rape and murder at the hands of her neighbor Mr. Harvey. Once dead, Salmon and her family both struggle with accepting her death. Susie specifically struggles with letting go of life and those she loves back on Earth. For this reason, she and her family remain stuck in the In-Between, which is her own version of Heaven. With her case remaining unsolved for years, her family is…

Ever fallen deep into a place of the unknown? Ever wanted to ? The alice in wonderland poster makes me want to fall deep into this place where everything is backwards and nothing is right. The alice in wonderland poster provided by imp shows lots of characters such as the white rabbit, the evil queen of hearts, mad hatter , blue caterpillar, Cheshire cat, White queen, tweedledee and tweedledum, and of course alice herself. The white rabbit is pointing at a pocket watch he’s holding in his…

physically growing and shrinking. This is shown whithin chapter two “The Pool of Tears”. Alice is faced with the obstical of being too large from drinking a bottle of liquid, this presents a problem for her as she desperately tries to get into the garden ‘lying down on her side, to look through into the garden with one eye’ (17) This gives the reader more of a understanding about how large she has become, the imagery of Alice lying down but not being able to do anything else other than peep…

Alice in wonderland is a children’s novel that has entire worlds of meaning to different people. The story is told in a very childish matter and begins with the tale of our young friend Alice who upon seeing a white rabbit running, she begins to chase the white rabbit and falls down the rabbit’s hole and winds up finding herself in a very peculiar world. Right away as Alice explores the rabbit hole she stumbles across many things that don’t belong such as cupboards and dressers and she quickly…

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." (Sebold 1). The Novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a story of a young fourteen-year-old girl named Susie. In this novel, Susie is raped and murdered leading to a great amount of grief for her and the people around her. Similarly, whenever Sebold was a young woman in college, she was raped leading to traumatic experiences along with being told she was “lucky to be alive” since…

The Color Purple is one of the most beloved novels of the twenty-first century. In it, author Alice Walker introduces her readers to a community of women, specifically protagonist, Celie and her sister Nettie, who suffer in the hands of men. The women are dehumanized by the misogynistic men in their lives, but eventually, they rise above the challenges the men throw at them and find themselves to be stronger and more beautiful than they ever were before. When the reader first meets Celie,…