Color

Before you can begin to understand how colors affect you psychologically, you need to understand what colors are, and how they work. Colors were first discovered by Sir Isaac Newton, he created a prism that turned sunlight into the colors that we know as “the rainbow.” Newton concluded that “white” contains all of the colors at the same time. Black, therefore, is the absence of color. Whenever Newton tested his prism, he found that red bent far less than violet (red and violet are at the…

progress’. I’ve always seen past people and their color, or where they came from. I enclosed myself in the mindset of ‘I’m not racist because I don’t look at people’s skin color or background’. After learning about color blindness, and realizing that I was apart of it, I now know that this is the wrong way to view humans. Color blindness may seem like a good idea, and the intention might be of good intent; it does more than ‘blind’ you from color. I used to look at people and think that I…

Pedophilia, racism , and terrible events , all recurring topics in both “The Bluest Eye “ and “The Color Purple” . Both movie and book cover uncomfortable , yet real topics that people of color were faced with in earlier times.Two girls specifically I am going to compare is a girl named Celie and a girl named Pecola , both had certain similar situations. A topic that I will start off with , is how in both the movie and book , a girl was raped at a young age which caused them to become pregnant.…

How Businesses use Color “Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.” – Pablo Picasso. Color can affect the emotions and behaviors of people due to what people associate with a color. Because of this, businesses utilize color in order to create a certain image, catch people’s attention, and evoke specific emotions and behaviors. The colors that I focused on in my visual essay are blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. Blue is associated with responsibility, trust, and also…

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.”…

The Color Purple was originally a novel written by Alice Walker in 1982. It was later adapted into a movie and a musical. The movie was about a fourteen year old African American girl growing up in Georgia in the 1930s. Her name was Celie and she was poor and uneducated. She conceived two children with a man named Alphonso whom Celie believed was her father. Alphonso abducted the children and gave them away. Celie and her younger sister Nettie learned that a man named Mister wanted to marry…

The Color Purple is a fictional epistolary novel written by Alice Walker. Set in the early 20th century, the narrator of the novel is Celie, a poor fourteen-year-old black girl living in rural Georgia within a male-dominated and racially prejudiced society. At a young age, Celie’s life becomes very difficult, since she is uneducated and lives with an abusive father. At 14 years old, she is raped by her own father and then sold into marriage with an older man. Celie’s new husband, Mr.____, or…

The Color Purple by Alice Walker, is a book about a protagonist named Celie were she starts at the age of 14 years old and as time passes she progresses in age. Celie came from an abusive home where she has 3 childrens with her father. After Celie’s mom died, her abusive cruel father basically forced her to marry and specific man named Albert. Albert has three kids already before even marrying Celie, and the oldest child is named Harpo. Celie didn’t like living in Harpo’s home at all until…

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,…

Friendships often evolve over time and can be tempered in the fires of conflict. This is particularly true for Sofia and Celie from The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Their friendship is put to the test when Celie advocates for Sofia to be beaten by her husband. When she and her husband fought, they accidentally wrecked a gift from Celie to Sofia: curtains. After reconciling, Celie and Sofia repurpose the curtains into a quilt. The torn curtains represent Celie’s and Sofia’s broken relationship,…