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    December, 2015 Just A Single Purple Wildflower In A Field Of Weeds Alice walker once said, “No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.” The color purple has timelessly been used to convey pictures of power and ambition, it is also associated with the feeling of independence. The Color Purple is the story of the constant

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    Setting: The color purple was set in rural Georgia during the 1985's. This setting highlights the problems found in the book, "The Color Purple". During the 1900’s Georgia sets a good premises for inequality and disadvantages that are found multiple times throughout the book. Since Georgia is in the south, for a young black women like Celie inequality was at its highest peak enhances the hardships for the main. She struggles to find independence in her setting since many men has taken advantage

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    This source discusses Alice Walker’s accomplishments as the author and early life that lead her to writing the book, “The Color Purple.” The novel explores the female African-American experience through the life and struggles of its narrator, Celie. The compelling work won Walker both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction in 1983. Later the book was turned into a movie and received eleven Academy Award nominations. The article is a credible source because this website

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    The Color Purple written by Alice Walker is a novel that explores the issues of domestic violence and abuse. She conveys a number of themes to illustrate these issues such as vulnerability and a loss of control. Celie is a young African American girl who lives in a world full of abuse and racism. At a young age, she was mentally abused and sexually assaulted by her father which mentally scars her for years to come. It addresses many societal issues The strength of sisterhood Walker demonstrates

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    The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a story written in 1982 that is about the life struggles of a young African American woman named Celie. The novel takes the reader through several main topics including the poor treatment of African American women, domestic abuse, family relationships, and also religion. The story takes place mostly in rural Georgia in the early 1900’s and demonstrates the difficult life of sharecropper families. Specifically how life was endured from the perspective of an African

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    In The Color Purple, Alice Walker writes how men are dominant and controlling, and how women have to obey men, spend their time at home, and out in the fields working. In the time period that the book took place, men are shown as abusive to women, and women can’t do anything about it. The roles of men are portrayed as being controlling and submissive. A representation of this is when Harpo questions why Sofia doesn’t listen to her and says to Mr., “I tell her one thing, she do another. Never do what

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    women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes” to where we develop the concept of all the abuse of women, as well as social inequality, and aesthetic value. The Color Purple is a story where the male characters where the focal point of the story when it comes to power and strength. Although many times in The Color Purple the male characters were abusive and wrong in many ways there were some male characters including Harpo who only abuses Sofia because because his father abused his wife and

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    Question 1: The author of “The Color Purple”, distributed the title throughout the story. When reading about Celie’s life, seeing that she has not had it pleasant since she was born. The color purple in her point of view represents the great things in life that god created for all the people to appreciate. Although Celie thinks that it would be a miracle for something wonderful to finally happen to her. As all the events including Nettie running away, her dad selling her to a stranger named Mr,

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    The Color Purple is an passionate novel based on the letters wrote by a hopeless black woman who goes by Miss Celie. In Celie’s letters, she illuminates the negative boundaries in role of tradition gender, sexism, racism and sexual relationship. Those negative boundaries have set up the unfairness treatment for black women in early twenty century. Back then, base on norms, men should play in masculine roles, which usually related to strength, controlling, and dominance, while women should play in

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    A Color Purple Mess In the motion picture “The Color Purple” it shows the hardship and pain that each character went through. It showcases all the hurt and also the joy of life. “The Color Purple” a film based on the novel “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker, is a depiction of a courageous southern black woman (Celie Johnson) on her journeys through life's troubling moments and new humble beginnings. Within watching “The Color Purple” one immediately knows that Celie, the main character is also the

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