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    Becerra 12/20/17 Period 4 The Bluest eye/ The Color Purple Comparison My Comparison in the bluest eye and the color purple is going to be about pecola and celie having many similaires in their lives .Also that how both are born in black communities and both are humiliated by the society and then the similarities in the book the bluest eye and the movie the color purple. In the beginning they are raped by their fathers and both become pregnant and…

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    Belong to Oneself The idea of self ownership and feminine space are what, in short, drive the feminism/womanism ideologies conveyed through The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, and The Awakening, by Kate Chopin. Both novels carry a strong feminist insight of the lives of two seemingly opposite women, who were living through essentially the same conditions. Celie and Edna struggled with their existence in a world they did not fully comprehend and much less accept. Through a series of self…

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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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    less power. Spielberg shows this theme gradually in the movies The Color Purple and Schindler’s List. He shows the relationships between the characters of different statuses through character development, major events, and the influence of characters on other characters. Character development filmed in The Color Purple and Schindler’s List show the audience a clear sense of a difference in authority. In the film The Color Purple, Spielberg introduces Celie as the minority to Mister; who is…

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    The Power of the Epistolary Narrative: The Color Purple It is clear that Alice Walker’s “near death” experience as a child allowed her to become a “meticulous observer of human relations” (“Alice Walker (1944-)”). Becoming blind in her right eye at the age of eight seemed to aid her writing, allowing her to become very interested in how people interacted, but also enabling her to withdraw from others. Walker’s childhood seemed to further help her writing. She writes as if trying to…

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    The Color Purple by Alice Walker, written in 1982, is a great work of literature for many reasons. Although it has been banned from schools there are multiple writings that have been published to establish this work’s literary merit. This book has had great historical and social impacts and it contains great rhetorical strength. Walker’s book has been very impactful in the social and historical realms. The book is very graphic and it brings up gender and racism issues through the plot,…

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    The Color Purple, written by Alice Walker, is an interesting, somewhat heartfelt story. It is an amazing story filled with dynamic characters. A dynamic character is a literary character who undergoes an important inner change; a change in personality or attitude. Throughout the book, you will see quite a few dynamic characters. However, the three that really stick out are the transformations of Celie, Shug Avery, and Albert. Those three people experience both inner and outer changes. Although…

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    “Sexual Awakening & Performance of Excess in The Color Purple” As preached by the church ladies at The Color Purple, we better lock up all our men and young boys, too because there’s a new Shug Avery in town. Directed by John Doyle, the revival transplanted itself from a successful run at London’s The Menier Chocolate Factory to open on Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theater on Dec 10. The Broadway revival brought Cynthia Erivo to reprise her role as Celie and the Oscar and Grammy winner Jennifer…

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    with the acceptance that men are the superior. The Color Purple highlight women’s struggle for survival in a society dominated by men. The Color Purple illustrates the neglect, and oppression of black women had to endure in the early 1900s. In the novel also portrays how women have to fight back against oppression to gain their independence. For Black women the quest for identity is…

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    This essay will investigate to what extent does the abuse and oppression of our main character, Celie, helps her become an independent and stronger woman in The Color Purple. The book is written in first person which helps the reader understand the main character’s actions. It is significant because all her life Celie has been oppressed and underestimated by everyone that surrounds her and even she underestimates herself and throughout the book, small things change her way of thinking and cause…

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