Purple Crayon

In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Celie has three important characteristics, strength, innocence, and kindhearted. In the book there are several examples on why she can be labeled as strong to start it off, on when her father right molests her as a child (pg. 1). This can also be labeled as innocence because she is just a child that is innocent. Then on the next few pages Celie gets beat by her father “Pa” because he thinks she was winking at a boy when in fact she was just rubbing her eye…

Dynamic Character essay In the book-to-movie adaption by Alice Walker, The Color Purple shows us many dynamic characters throughout her story. Dynamic characters are people who show an inner change by events that take place. Throughout the story, characters like Celie, Albert, and Sofia have to face very impactful situations that change who they are as people. Some characters’ have a positive impact from their hardships while others attract a more secluded result. Sofia’s character is very…

When readers first hear the name Alice Walker, the first thing that will probably come to mind is one of her most popular works, The Color Purple. Well, besides receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National book award for The Color Purple, Walker has written several other pieces, such as seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children's books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her work continues to reach out to people, especially African American women who she writes about…

Equality and freedom for black women in the early 1900s wasn't concepts they were quite familiar with. Alice Walker is the author of “The Color Purple”. Alice Walker was 38 when she wrote this book. Alice grew up in Eatonton, Georgia. She went to two different colleges and she traveled to New York, Africa and Jackson Mississippi. This book is a series of letters to God and later her sister Nettie. These letters were written by a 14 year old girl, Celie. Celie is a poor, uneducated black woman…

were usually about Christianity and slavery. “...Poems on various subjects, religious and moral…”-Bio.com. Washington was a short story author that was usually writing fictional stories with nonfictional characters. “...The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.”-Bio.com. Both authors had an interesting way of writing. Phillis was taught everything she knew from slave owners and that family, which she became a part of their family. So her writing was much different considering her life.…

John Irving was born March 2, 1942, in Exeter, New Hampshire, he was raised by his biological mother, and stepfather. Many events from Irving’s personal life have inspired books that he has written, such as, parent separations, feminism, sexual abuse, and sexual fantasies. Not only have plots been inspired by Irving’s personal life, but also the characters; which often follow Irving’s past experiences. At the age of 15, John Irving’s life was greatly affected after reading, Great Expectations.…

Rip Van Winkle as a Romantic Hero Rip Van Winkle is a short story written by Washington Irving which follows a lazy farmer named Rip, who enjoys helping everyone besides himself and his wife. Rip wanders off into the mountains one day and falls asleep, only to awaken after twenty years have passed. The author endows Rip with various characteristics that portray him as a Romantic Hero. Some of these qualities include being child-like and innocent, disliking women, and going on a journey in…

The development of America is captured in both factual and fictional stories. The characters in the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” are specifically shaped to represent well-thought attributes of America. The author of sleepy hollow uses characters to expound on the development of young America. Washington Irving is reflected as the father of American short story. His inscription depicts the invention of the American myths that deal with ancestors, heroes, and mystical beings that are an essential…

A few months ago, my cousin Mark invited me to help on his farm. I accepted his invitation, knowing he would pay me handsomely. However, when I set foot on the farm, one thought came to mind: what a dump! Mark 's farm was so pitiful one could mistake it for a junkyard. One thing that stuck out to me was his cattle. The poor creatures did not have anything to eat. All of Mark 's grass was dead, and I could count every cow 's ribs from a football field away. As I roamed around Mark 's farm, it…

The main focus of all my research on Washington Irving, a Yankee living in New York, was to learn how the first American author pictured the world. Irving is widely considered the first American author not because he was the first author in North America, but because he is the first person in America to write stories “by heart”. What I mean by writing with heart was that Irving wrote with a passion, as he considered his work written for the reason of what he loved the most, humor. Irving wrote…