The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, is a fictional story that took place in the South during the early to mid 1900's. ... In The Color Purple, Alice Walker leads protagonist Celie on a journey of self-discovery where she has to overcome different obstacles because of her gender, race, and class. ... He wanted to give her materialistic things to keep a high status, but still had a sense of control by not allowing her to go wherever she pleased, whenever she pleased. ... Squeak, who is of mixed race, is aware of this and asks Harpo, "Do you really love me, or just my color?... The Colo...

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Chester Himes wrote If He Hollers Let Him Go, with the close-to-home perspective as an African-American author living under these altering circumstances himself. ... It was the look on people's faces when you asked them about a job. ... (Page 18) This is the struggle that internally, Bob's girlfriend Alice battles with every day. Alice, being light skinned enough to be mistaken as white, has a difficult position in life. ... Alice is his woman he can show off, and his car is a symbol of his higher status than most. ...

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," "Remembering Miss Alberta: One of Alice's Women," and "A Worn Path" each author describes a character that fits the mold of a womanist. ... She remains calm regardless of what is going on. ... When the author tells about a fight she and a kid got in, Mattie Lee breaks up the fight and asks the two children bluntly, "How many words did y"all pass before y"all fell out?" ... In the second short story "Remembering Miss Alberta: One of Alice's Women" the author tells of a special womanist, Miss Alberta. ... Alice Walker, an author dedicated to writing and womanism, says that " Wom...

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Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" ... Written in the backdrop of the 20th century American patriarchal society is the epistolary novel 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker. Alice Walker likes to call herself a 'womanist'3 writer, which as described by her is a 'feminist of color or a black feminist'. ... The term 'womanist' was coined and was first used by the poet and author Alice Walker. ... Alice Walker's The Color Purple ...

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Alice Walker takes on a feminist tone in The Color Purple, a novel about the struggles between salvation and independence in which she discusses the oppression of black women. ... Harpo, her husband, often goes to his father and asks him how to make Sofia listen to him. ... ___'s house, she goes to Africa with a family of Christian missionaries. ... She finds strength in Shug, which keeps her from going back to Mr. ___ as his wife, but instead returns as his equal friend. ... Alice Walker contrasts the ugliness of men with the healthy bondage of women to discuss the frustration of bla...

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When Harpo asks his father how to make his wife "mind him,"" the old man encourages his son to beat her. ... Soon both Celie and Sofia realize that Harpo is going on an eating binge. ... Harpo tries to maintain an indifferent countenance, saying that he doesn't care one way or another whether she stays or goes. ... "He just do his business, get off, go to sleep,"" Celie tells Shug. ... Nettie too, decides to go on the mission trip. ...

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• Grade Level: High School