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    The Color Purple written by Alice Walker is a series of private letters between Celie and God, also later a few between her and her sister Nettie. Celie was a poor, ugly and uneducated African-America fourteen-year old girl. In Celie’s first letter we learn that she was beat and raped repeatedly by father, Alphonso. Her father impregnated her twice with a son and a daughter which he then put up for adoption. Celie’s father continued to abuse her and pulled her out of school. and then her…

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    In one of Lewis Carroll’s books “Alice in Wonderland” a character in his book says,“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. This quote means each time you make a choice you are going down a path and it’s your choice on which path you want to take. You decide how much you want to grow from now. This quote relates to the novel “outsiders” because the people in outsiders made their own choices, they decided…

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    “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker is a very radical movie of the twentieth century. While not only showing the abuse of women in a new light, it also shows the growing independence of women as well. The story is set in the Deep South in America after the Civil War. It shows a young woman, Celie and her struggles as a young girl grow into deeper struggles as a middle aged woman. As the story progresses, many important women come in and out of her life, and ultimately help her with the hardships…

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    Alice Walker is a very influential Pulitzer Prize winning writer, African-American novelist, and social activist who is most notably famous for her authoring of “The Color Purple.” She was born in 1944, just about decade before the civil rights movement, in Eatonton, Georgia to sharecropper parents and is the youngest of eight children. In 1973, during part of a period of discovery where she embarked on exploring writing in all its forms, Walker published the short story collection In Love and…

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    her 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…

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    Sisters have similar and different characteristics. In the short story, “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, Maggie and Dee are very different. Being raised in the house does not make them alike. Their ideas, hopes, and lifestyles are not similar. Although living together for their childhood, Maggie’s and Dee’s personality have become their own. First, Maggie is the youngest daughter. When she was little she was in a house fire. The fire left scars on her arms. Although beautiful, Maggie is shy and…

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    The essay “What is Real,” Alice Munro discusses a question that she hears frequently from people in her hometown who believe that they seem real elements of the world that they recognize in her fictional stories, and are bothered by how those real elements seem bastardized or perverted by her seemingly intentional misrepresentation of them. She hopes that in answering this question, she might be able to help people understand what fiction is, how it works, and where it comes from. Firstly, Munro…

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    4. Discuss the contrast/battle between good and evil in Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. [Ensure that your focus is on filmic elements] Alice in Wonderland heavily weighs up the idea of good and evil, this contrast is brought under the spotlight by the White Queen and the Queen of Hearts and their areas of dominance. This battle between good and evil employs a wide category of film techniques to show this struggle such as; setting, costume, soundscape, actors’ ensemble and performance, and camera…

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    “How much of life is a matter of perspective” (Walker). Alice Walker is a very well- known short story writer, novelist, poetic, second-wave feminist, civil rights activist and children’s book author. One of her most influential novels was the Color Purple, which turned into a motion picture in the early 1980’s. She is the only African American women to win the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Alice Malsenior Walker was the youngest of eight children, born in 1944 to sharecroppers in…

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    Alice Malsenior Walker, a Georgia native, is a widely known American author. Not only is she an author but she is also a Civil Rights activist. She fought for equality for all African Americans in the South. Her career took flight when her most famous novel, The Color Purple, was published. A year later after the novel was published, Walker received The Pulitzer Award. The novel also made her the most distinguished woman in America. ”Everyday Use” is one of her most famous short stories. The…

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