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In The Color Purple, written by Alice Walker, uses a feminine heroin named Celie in the Southeastern corner of the United States. Through Celie, Alice Walker portrays the thematic subject of sin and deceit by explaining her life through a series of letters. Although her life was very difficult, she was able to find a way to get through it and become stronger. The first sin that happened to Celie was the rape that occurred when she was fourteen. James Hall, author of the article “Towards a map of

The Color Purple Parable According to Scholl’s article, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, is a parable. In classifying a story as a parable, Scholl determines that a parable must be a “movement through a realistically improbable sequence of narrative reversals toward a conclusion that defies realistic expectations.” (Scholl, 255) These reversals are very evident throughout the novel and render the conclusion unrealistic. In almost every character, there is an ironic reversal of what should happen

In the writing “The Color Purple” there are many aspects considering race, gender, class and the places in which society puts them in according to one's physical appearances. In this book females are in homes doing dishes and cleaning while males are working. In the text there is a separation between dark colored and the light colored. Dark colored people in this society are given little right and are discriminated against almost constantly. In this text it talks about how the rich live off the rich

The Color Purple Book Report The Color Purple explores and introduces many themes including, the ability to express your thoughts through writing and letters, female relationships, sexism, racism and gender roles that occurred during the early 1900’s in the South. The author of the novel Alice Walker, uses the characters of the novel to help the main character Celie find herself as a woman and stand up to the men in her life that take advantage of her. The Color Purple is an epistolary and fiction

“What unites the characters of The Color Purple is a shared experience of suffering” (Fiske 151). In her article, Shanyn Fiske unifies all characters in The Color Purple through something that everyone experiences in their life—suffering. While all characters suffer in the novel, Alice Walker illustrates the universal need for community in order to cope and recognize our own unique experiences of suffering The isolation and abuse that Celie receives and the unique path that she follows modeled by

In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Celie leads a life filled with abuse at the hands of the most important men in her life. As result of the women who surround and help her, Celie becomes stronger and overcomes the abuse she experienced. The three most influential women in Celie’s life are her sister Nettie, her daughter-in-law Sofia, and the singer Shug Avery. These are the women who lead Celie out of her shell and help her turn from a shy, withdrawn woman to someone who was free to speak her mind

The setting of the American South in The Color Purple helps develop Celie’s character and contributes to her journey to find herself throughout the novel. The time when this story takes place is key to this novel because it creates obstacles in Celie’s path to find herself. It doesn’t provide you with a specific date but you assume it is sometime post-Civil War when African Americans are still looked down upon in society. They are able to pursue whatever career they please but women are expected

controversy goes way back to the early twentieth century and in The Color Purple by Alice Walker, we clearly see how women are not given the respect or dignity they deserve. Although people seem to not recognize it as a problem, this issue must be addressed. In The Color Purple one definitely sees how Celie represents a repressed woman and how she learns to fight back over time to overcome her struggles in life. In The Color Purple, Celie a young black girl who lived in Georgia was very bright and

The Color Purple BSHS 422 May 7, 2012 Erik Holmgren The Color Purple Human service specialists need to be proficient in different cultures. By being aware of how different cultures think and react it allows for the delivery of services to be accurate. Cultural competency is described as. “The understanding of diverse attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, practices, and communication patterns attributable to a variety of factors (such as race, ethnicity, religion, SES, historical and social context

The Color Purple has won many awards including, The American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. The book explores the maltreatment, hysteria and loyalties of black women throughout the mid-1900s through the early twentieth century. Walker focuses on how change throughout time periods can affect the black women of society. Most of the characters live life of ignorance, completely unaware of what is occurring outside their own small neighborhood.They are greatly oblivious of the larger