Epistolary novel

In the book the color purple, Alice Walker creates the character through self discovery and love through the descriptive journal entries of Celie growing up into a woman. This story is narrated by Celie, a character unsure of who she is truly and who she can trust. In the beginning, Celie is a controlled young girl at the age of fourteen crippled by the weight of the world on her shoulders. After her mother dies she is even more afraid and has even bigger responsibilities. Celie is afraid of…

Just to be clear, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is definitely not an action-packed mystery novel. But it also possessed a certain quality that will grab your attention and not let it go. Charlie’s sincere, simple, and touching way of writing will tug at your heartstrings while he navigates the scary, sad, and amazing parts of being a high schooler…

Directed by Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple, is a tale following a poor, young, black girl named Celie throughout the journey of her life filled with violence, and recovery. The film begins with Celie giving birth to a boy; she was raped and impregnated by her own father, whom takes the baby away from her. Celie's life centered mainly around her sister Nettie, her husband called Mister, and Shug Avery: who had three children with her husband. Experiences of grief, and violence, along with…

In the movie, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie is a freshman in high school struggling with the stages of adolescence. Charlie fails to identify his own social identity and personality because he always wanted to be good enough, to be accepted, and to please. These actions also represent his strengths because Charlie has a big heart, is accepting of others, and is smart. These traits are challenged during his adolescent struggle to find his own sense of belonging and his own niche.…

In Frankenstein, Nature and science have brought a significant impact onto the characters. The progression of science combined with nature leads to a debacle. With this, there are various effects and roles shown through nature and science. Mary Shelley expresses her message about this. In her times, she was part of the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romanticist age and this led her to composing a story with nature and science competing against each other. From the struggles between the…

are mistreated not only by members of other races, but by members of their own as well. Sisterhood in The Color Purple is one of the driving forces for good in this novel. It is through sisterhood and the solidarity between each woman that gives strength to each character involved. Through the bond of sisterhood, the women in this novel experience…

In the Book The color purple by Alice Walker the main character Celie is a very shy and timid women throughout the book, she has learned to never speak her mind and has always let men control everything about who she is. In a passage in the book, For the first time Celie demonstrates that standing up to those who once scared you or harmed you will give you an amazing strength to be confident in who you are and what you can do. The passage has a tone of strength and confidence on Celie’s part,…

Avery getting married and no longer having feelings for her husband Grady as she once had (pg. 122). Celie can relate to it because she doesn’t have feelings for Albert due to the way she has been treated / neglected. Celie changes throughout the novel by having a voice in the beginning of the book she never talked back to any of the people that hurt her and towards the end she shows you all the anger she had deep down inside after she finds all the letter that albert was hiding from her. Shug…

The not so good perks of sexual abuse In Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, a child named Charlie is struggling socially, and basically through life. Drugs, family, intimacy, and other factors interfere with his day to day life...he is basically the poster-boy for being awkward. Charlie is unable to be sexually intimate with sam because, unconsciously, he correlates his love for Aunt Helen with his love for Sam, and Charlie’s grief is mixed with unprocessed sexual trauma.…

When I found out we were going to be reading “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” in class I was excited. For many years, I considered Perks to be my favorite book, and I had reread it during different stages in my life. Every time I reread the book I somehow always ended up feeling like I related to Charlie more and more. Rereading the book also brought back a lot of memories to me, the first time I read the book was in 7th grade and at the time I was a bit of a loner, I didn’t talk much and I…