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    Alice Walker is a famous civil rights activists and writer of the popular novel The Color Purple. Growing up during the era of segregation, Alice Walker portrayed a deeper view of the history of segregation in Georgia and individual experiences into all of her books and poems. Many have questioned the appropriateness of the usage of racism and sexism within her works like The Color Purple, as well as, her poems. This sparked an outrage in many libraries and schools in several states. Alice…

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    The Color Purple is an epistolary novel written in1982 by Alice Walker. She was born to sharecropper parents in Eatonton, Georgia, in 1944. She is Pulitzer Prize-winning, African-American novelist and poet most famous for authoring The Color Purple. The Color Purple novel presents three black women who have struggles on their lives, and their society forces them to live like slaves and maids .They fight to achieve independency and freedom from men domination. Moreover, the novel creates a link…

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    Alice Walker

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    I chose the quote by Alice Walker, “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” One part of the phrase, “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you…” this part of the quote told us that you should not want only other people to be happy and loving towards you. In the second part of the phrase, “Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” It tells us that you should believe in yourself and you should follow your…

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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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    little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love” (Walker). While the existence of personhood is often questioned as an individual learns about life, The Color Purple provides critical insight to the growth of African Americans in The South. Alice Walker lived during the latter half of the twentieth century, in the rural South. Their work often reflects the trials faced in her adolescent.…

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    sister Nettie. Alice Walker incorporates all three key components of a great writer in a beautifully written novel, The Color Purple. All of the three components stem from Vladimir Nabokov: storyteller, teacher and enchanter. Nabokov would greatly appreciate reading this novel because it includes all of the ideas necessary to be a great writer while keeping true to the story. Celie shows the difficulties she is faced throughout her life as she writes letters to God. Alice Walker slowly begins…

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    The Color Purple, written by Alice Walker, is an interesting, somewhat heartfelt story. It is an amazing story filled with dynamic characters. A dynamic character is a literary character who undergoes an important inner change; a change in personality or attitude. Throughout the book, you will see quite a few dynamic characters. However, the three that really stick out are the transformations of Celie, Shug Avery, and Albert. Those three people experience both inner and outer changes. Although…

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    Alice Walker goes in-depth between the stereotypes of black women with their realities and beliefs. The mama in this story is looked at like a stereotype by the ways she lives in society as a poor black farmer in the south. Walker compares how the yard as a comfort place by "It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined the tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit" (77). Her yard describes as filthy and actually…

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    The Color Purple by Alice Walker, written in 1982, is a great work of literature for many reasons. Although it has been banned from schools there are multiple writings that have been published to establish this work’s literary merit. This book has had great historical and social impacts and it contains great rhetorical strength. Walker’s book has been very impactful in the social and historical realms. The book is very graphic and it brings up gender and racism issues through the plot,…

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    career paths of ones ancestors. Heritage is valued by many cultures. To recognize and honor the past traditions of our ancestors is a tradition in itself that is passed down from generation to generation. In the short story "Everyday Use", by Alice Walker, Mama exhilarates to the importance of the family heritage and how it is respected and valued by her daughter Maggie.…

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