...My paper will focus on how Alice Walker’s The Color Purple questions the notions of gender. In the article “Feminism” Carolyn Perry states that “Feminism differs from the women’s movement in that it moves beyond the political and economic issues at heart of the women’s movement…, such as tearing down the hierarchical structure of sex and gender roles and changing the way people view men, women, and gender”(255). She believed that it wasn’t a such thing as “a women’s place”(255). In The Color Purple Alice Walker shows us that women can over come oppression and become stronger if they believe they can. Unlike Celie in The Color Purple, Alice Malsenior Walker had a fairly happy childhood. She was the last of eight children born by her parents. She began 1st grade at the age of four and was very successful. She was very happy with her life “…until an accident (a brother shot her with a BB gun) blinded her in one eye and made her feel ugly”(Taylor2614). After the accident her grades began to fall because she was unhappy and the children at her school began tease her. After having surgery on her eye, She regained her confidence and graduated valedictorian of her class. The Color Purple took place in a time where women believed that the man was in charge. Back then women weren’t allowed to express their opinions. In the first sentence of The Color Purple, Walker shows us how Celie’s stepfather would rape her and threaten her to do what he wanted. “You better not never tell no...
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...The Color of Freedom Life for black women in the early 1900s was difficult, not only because of racism and lack of women’s rights, but because of the subjugation they faced from the men in their lives and from society. In the novel, The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, the narrator is an abused black woman named Celie. Walker uses this unique protagonist to comment on the racism, sexism, and abuse of women that was so prevalent in the early 1900s. Walker used Celie’s inner monologue (in the form of letters to God and her sister Nettie) to convey the overarching message of the novel; the power of finding that inner voice that leads to freedom from the oppression of society’s expectations. Celie started off the book as a powerless victim of the men in her life with no voice. Walker uses Celie’s first person point of view to tell her life story of abuse and submissive silence. Celie’s only form of communication about her thoughts and feelings are through letters to God that are brief at first but then are more complex as Celie gets more confident and finds her voice. In the beginning, Celie’s inner voice had been beaten into silence at an early age by her abusive step-father and later by her husband with emotional and physical abuse. She survived by “[not] fight(ing)… stay[ing] where (she) told” and staying silent letting her step father believe that she is” too dumb to keep going to school” (Walker 2.254, 3. 342) Celie was only able to find her voice once she stood up to her husband...
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...Victimization (or victimization) is the process of being victimized or becoming a victim. She encountered sexual, emotional, and verbal abuse from the time she was 14 years old. My first initial thought after watching The Color Purple was that the book itself, an award-winning novel. The movie is about a African American woman by known as Celie, who is trying to survive and discover herself in her reality. There is no one that helps her, no one to talk to her, and no one to educate her on life. From beginning to end you can see Celie’s role as a wife and mother change from dependent and weak to independent and strong. It is even sadder when Celie’s husband, Albert, treats her like dog scrap. Albert is displayed as an abusive partner who repeatedly beats and rapes her until his satisfaction. The whole novel is centered around a woman’s life and how she survived life in the early 1900’s. A lot of Domestic Violence occurred when women would be “out of line” in the household. The man had full rights in the past to physically “punish” their wives. Men would exploit the fact they made money and use it against women. Women were also just given into marriage to different social classes. Usually the richer could choose whoever they wanted as their wife or slave. Married life was painful for Celie. She had to raise Albert’s children, take full control of any house chores, endure unenjoyably intimate nights with her husband, and take unnecessary beatings from him. Women would...
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...white community. We see him being the only black to live in a white a neighborhood of Brentwood Park. In society where the whites occupy all the big and important jobs and the blacks do the mean and odd jobs like house help and gardener. During that era we realize that majority of those who were educated and went to school were the whites and the blacks uneducated. But in the novel , we discover Tommy to be a very intelligent black university student who studies in a white university. This brings out the African value and potential in a white dominated society. In Alice Walker’s The color purple, we see the aspect of solidarity among the blacks. The blacks were united and this made them to sympathize with their fellow brothers. While Sofia is in prison, we see Celie and some others go pay her a visit. We also see Squeak disguising like a white lady in order to seduce the prison guard so as to set Sofia free but we see being abused sexually by this prison guard. This shows the solidarity that reigns among the Africans. In The...
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...Elements of fiction “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker The Color Purple is an epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name. This novel is making arguments on the topic “racism and sexism”. The Color Purple is an extraordinary novel that’s full of surprises. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on female black life in the 1930s in the southern United States, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. Alice Walker’s biography [pic] Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1994, in Eatonton, Georgia. Living in the racially divided South, Walker attended segregated schools. She graduated from her high school as the valedictorian of her class. With the help of a scholarship, she was able to go to Spelman College in Atlanta. Later, she switched to Sarah Lawrence College in New York City. While at Sarah Lawrence, Walker visited Africa as part of a study-abroad program. She graduated in 1965—the same year that she published her first short story. After college, Walker worked as a social worker, teacher and lecturer. She became active in the Civil Rights Movement, fighting for equality for all African Americans. Her experiences informed her first collection of poetry, Once, which was published in 1968. Better known now as a novelist, Walker...
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...(Merriam-Webster). It is common in our modern culture and it has been for along time. This vicious crime impacts people’s lives and drives families apart. We are nowbecoming further aware of this crime, but people were not always aware of this. The book TheColor Purple provides an understanding of domestic abuse in the 1980’s. Since then many actshave been introduced to aid victims. But before the laws were placed women would have to livein an abusive relationship and try to make it “work”Celie has been a victim of domestic abuse ever since she was fourteen years old. Shegrew up to marry a man, Mr.______, he unrelenting beat her and mistreated...
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...Cody Stetson Mr. Nester AP Writing/English 12 3 March 2015 The Color Purple Feminism in women's movements has been a prominent impact that revolutionizes women's rise for independence and equality amongst men. The ideology of feminism is shown rather often in various works of literature, through various different literature time periods. The way it is depicted in these novels can often include other various objective prejudices, such as racism or sexism. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, depicts the same ideology, along with those extra prejudices, throughout the endeavors of her more prominent characters, such as Celie or Shug Avery. Walker's novel is a prime representation of the vocalization of women's true voices throughout the gender differences that plagued them and their entirety. Celie is a prime example of how unruly prejudice and direct insults can be on a woman of her time. She was portrayed as a character that is always quiet, never outspoken, lacking self-confidence, and is considered to have an appearance like that of a hag-woman, for men and women alike never compliment her for her own looks or features. Men like Alphonso and Mr. ____ only see Celie as yet another object in their lives, and treat her with the same respect as the whites did slaves during societal times before hers. The treatment of women in this novel as well as the absurdity and abuse from the men that correlate to this novel can directly be assumed by most female characters and their...
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...‘Controlling the minds of the people translates to the control of the body’ how far do you agree? Totalitarianism is a common theme ground between ‘The Colour Purple’ and ‘1984’ where both protagonists seem to be ‘suspended’ and ‘were lost in a period that offered no hope of progress’ George Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Alice Walker’s ‘The Color Purple’ have a society where there is complete control and oppression, which eventually translates to the control of the body, we are presented with the party members and the black women protagonists being the proletariat of society, and never truly being free because ‘As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free’ however, we are presented objects and behaviour that can be described as liberating,...
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...The Color Purple Walker, Alice- 1982 Alexis Moss Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple (book titles in italics) to give her insight of men, women, love or the lack thereof, physical, mental, and verbal abuse. The men within this book were very powerful. It would be safe to say that the men were slave owners, and the women were the slaves. Celie was the main character of the book, and she endures every form of abuse from individuals in her life that should have been showing her love. Everyone abused her except her sister Nettie, whom she found herself trying to protect from their father. Celie’s mother abused and cursed her, even while being on her sick bed because her husband desired to have sex with Celie more than her. Walker uses this unique protagonist to comment on the racism, sexism, and abuse of women who was so prevalent in the early 1900s. Walker used Celie’s inner monologue (in the form of letters to God and her sister Nettie) to convey the overarching message of the novel; the power of finding that inner voice that leads to freedom from the oppression of society’s expectations. The plot takes place over a 30-year period in the reconstruction South of Georgia. They live in a rural farm community and were a hotbed of activity for civil rights and suffrage. This book was written from the other side of racism, from the victim’s point of view forcing the reader to see the result of bigotry. Racism not only affected Celie’s life but also the life of her friend Sofia...
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...Celie has no power in society or over her abusers because of her race and gender and her only form of expression is through her letters to God. The abusers in this novel are not stereotypical or purely evil as they are often husbands of the women and do have redeeming qualities. The violent abusers are the victims of sexism, racism or parentalism, which once again emphasises the cyclical nature of life. For example, Harpo only beating Sofia after his father implying he is less of a man for not beating his wife. The characterisation of this character is representative of a lot of males in...
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...Literature 1 April 21013 Epilogue to The Color Purple Years have passed since the time of Nettie and her family’s arrival back to Celie. After all her years of suffering, Celie’s life has finally been fulfilled with happiness. Nettie, Samuel, and the children have moved into Celie’s new home with her and Shug. Shug decided to retire from her life of singing and fame to live and be alongside Celie for the remainder of their lives. Shug wrote one last song in which she titled Celie. It tells of Celie’s hard journey through life and how she has come up to the end of the tunnel with Shug and full of love. Albert, Celie’s ex-husband has completely changed from his days as a cruel woman beater. He now works in a partnership with Celie and her pants-making business. He sees all of his wrongdoings and day by day fixes them. He sees Celie as an equal human being to him. Although he is still loves Shug very much, he now knows that Shug deserves no one better than Celie. Albert has never found anyone new to marry, but he feels that his life is fulfilled with enough love from these two amazing women. His son, Harpo and his nightclub became so successful that he opened a second one on the other side of town. He has now learned to become a successful boss and businessman. Even though he still can’t control his wife, Sofia, he has learned that no one needs to have control or power over someone in order to have a compatible and happy relationship. Sofia continues to work at Celie’s general store...
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...Celie's hardship journey throughout the novel “The Color Purple” has similar attributes as the ones in the novel by Harper Lee, “To Kill A Mockingbird”. Both of the female protagonists have similar personalities. They learn to be strong for themselves and other people. “The Color Purple” and “ To Kill A Mockingbird” both have dynamic characters that have similar ways of becoming stronger as a person and becoming a better human being. One of the major similarities between both the novels is the setting the books are in. Both are set in the deep South.”To Kill A Mockingbird” was set in Alabama, while “To Kill A Mockingbird” was set in Georgia. The year would be around the 1930’s. The time where slavery was very much going on. A difference that Scout and Celie was they were both on different sides of slavery. Scout was white, while Celie was black....
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...FILM CRITIQUE: THE COLOR PURPLE 1 The Color Purple Devon Murraine ENG225: Introduction to Film Instructor: Kayla Ward October 20, 2012 [no notes on this page] -1- The Trials and Tribulations of life 4 The Color Purple “The Color Purple” is a 1985 American drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the eighth film directed by Spielberg and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker (Walker, 1996). The film tells the story of a young African American girl named Celie and shows the problems faced by African American women during the early 1900s; including poverty, racism, and sexism. The character Celie transform as she finds her self-worth through the help of two strong female companions. 2 1 1. “The Color Purple” (italics) [Angela Trodello (TA)] This movie has a great representation of characters where mentioning the talented Whoopi Goldberg and the famous Oprah Winfrey. These characters represent in the movie oppressed women who have surmised by their husbands and society. Whoopi Goldberg as Celie, Is more of the quiet type, a woman who lives under the pressure and demands of the man but Oprah Winfrey as Sofia, is more of a strong type, she believes in equal rights with the men. 3 2. companions. The intro needs a thesis statement. Introduce the elements of film-making that you will analyze. How do they affect your critique? [Angela Trodello (TA)] 3. men. How does their acting contribute to the mise-enscene? [Angela...
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...abuse to accomplish a wholeness, both individual and common. In structure and substance, The Color Purple...
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...Prepared by Sofia for teknologi pengolahan nabati • cereals Wheat Rice Maize Barley Sorghum Oat • Pseudo cereals Buckwheat Quinoa Amaranth Characteristics of Cereals - Grain structure - Chemical composition - Physical characters • Pericarp - 5% of kernel - 6% protein, 2% ash, 20% cellulose, 0.5% fat and the remain is NSP • Seed coat; contains pigment • Endosperm (83%): aleuron layer and starchy endosperm • Germ (2.5-3.5%): protein (25%), sugar (18%), oil (16%) and ash Cell wall and endosperm of wheat Hard wheat cell wall soft wheat cell wall Hard wheat endosperm soft wheat endosperm Rice grain structure • The husk (palea lemma)= 20 % (16-28%) of rough rice weight • The brown rice contains pericarp 1 to 2 %, Aleurone and seed-coat 4 to 6 %, germ 1 %, scutellum 2 % and endosperm 90 to 91 % (Juliano, 1972) • More nutritious than white (milled) rice • Cooking time is longer than white rice Rice husk and starch granules Surface of rice husk Starch granules and protein bodies near aleurone layer Starch granules in the center • 4 main parts: bran/hull (pericarp, epidermis and seed coat), germ, endosperm and tip cap • Varied kernel color: yellow, white, red, blue, dark brown, purple • Hull = 5-6% and coated with a layer of wax • Germ = large, 10-14% • Endosperm has translucent (near aleurone) and opaque part ( near center) Corn Endosperm Opaque...
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