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    Alice in wonderland is a very well known story redone in many different ways. Examples of three different versions could be, the original by disney, a more modern remake by director, tim burton and lastly a production held by Grant Park High School of the play. Aspects compared between the three include story plot, Alice’s character and the reason why she is in wonderland and how she gets out. Although some revisions might share the same features, there are differences between them. Through the…

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    Have you ever read a book and then thought: "What does this even mean?" Well, the book, Alice' Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, brings up the same question. Did Carroll have a point he was trying to make, or did he write his story for pure entertainment? I believe that he wrote it for entertainment purposes. Though no one but Carroll actually knows the answer to this question. The reasons supporting my thesis are: the original story was told for the amusement of three little girls,…

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    Alice is turning a non-sense world into reality. For this reason, when your imagination takes over the real and makes believe world. It is considered to be one of the best examples of literacy nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. Alice is a sensible prepubescent girl from a wealthy English family who finds herself in a strange world ruled by…

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    Book Summary: Go Ask Alice

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    Go ask Alice is book written in diary form. The author is unknown. The main character is Alice, which is the one who write the diary. Throughout the diary, Alice talks about the challenges with she faces and how she copes with them. Alice’s dad, who is a college professor, takes an offer to teach at a different college. Alice and her family have to move to a new town at the beginning of the next year. Alice has problems fitting in at her new school, but soon makes a new friend, Beth. Alice…

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    This historical novel is written in first person points of view. The majority of the time is Celie’s voice, but Celie’s sister Nettie writes some of the letters that are in the book. The story covers thirty years of Celie’s life from childhood to her maturity as an independent woman. This story takes place during 1910 through 1940 in rural Georgia. The setting of Celie’s story is recognizable among poor blacks of the era. As a poor black woman, Celie’s bad treatment is easily ignored. Having…

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    Shig Character

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    Character: The main characters in The Color Purple are strong individuals, who have dealt with heavy hearts. Most of the characters in the novel are flat and static; for many of the characters don't go through any major changes or breakthroughs by the end of the book. Celie on the other hand, is both round and dynamic. Celie went through a total change of character by the end of the novel. She's round because her character started as a quiet, and girl who was constantly taken advantage of. She…

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    The color purple isn’t a life that I have personally lived or seen others around me live but it is a life that can be experienced by others around the globe. The connection doesn’t need to start from one being sexually abused by the father but it can be a woman finding out who she really is after the worst has happened to her. A connection to the color purple can be one that comes from the movies. In Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family reunion Lisa Breaux, one of Madea's nieces, is engaged to an…

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    1. Why did Mrs. Rabbit tell the rabbits not to go into Mr. McGregor’s garden? Mrs. Rabbit told the rabbits not to go into Mr. McGregor’s garden because it was dangerous, if Mr. McGregor find a rabbit in his garden they could finish like their father, who “had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.” 2. Why did Peter go into Mr. McGregor’s garden? Peter went into Mr. McGregor’s garden because Peter was a “very naughty” young rabbit; a warning of danger was like a spark of…

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    Color Purple Gender Roles

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    The Color Purple is a novel by Alice Walker in 1982. The principal character and narrator of the story, Celie is a fourteen year old girl who encounters emotional, psychological and physical torment on account of the men throughout her life. She is impregnated twice by her step father Alphonso and sold to a chauvinistic man named Mister, who regularly beats and sexually assaults her. Henceforth, Alice Walker expands upon a focal topic of the novel i.e. the state of women and their normative…

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    The relationships women form not only reveals the treatment behind the labels of relationships but also the role of women that society has placed upon them. The novel, The Color Purple, is written through a series of letters, often from the protagonist to God. The protagonist, Celie, is a woman who has been oppressed and hurt by men from a young age. Celie is a kind, caring woman who does everything she can to impress the people in her life disregarding the consequences. One of Celie’s…

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