Schmidt Honors English II 17 September 2002 The Color Purple, by Alice Walker is a historical novel showing how an uneducated, fourteen-year-old black girl living in rural Georgia between 1910 through 1940 can overcome years of abuse and betrayal, and become an independent, confident woman. ... Racism is a main issue in the novel. ... During this time period of time, it is considered right for Sofia, a black woman to be a maid. ... The consequences for a black person disobeying a white authority figure would be severe. ... A different example of racism is when Eleanor Jane brings her bab...

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- have two children, a boy and a girl, who definitely come after their mother, but this doesn't seem to bother anyone. ... In the meantime the life of the successful novelist fades to black. ... Generally speaking some parts are really unbelievable and the plot is far-fetched but this is it what makes the black comedy of this novel. ...

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Janie doesn't discover that she is black until she is several years old, and it happens when she sees herself in a picture and realizes that she looks different from all of her white friends. ... For example, Janie's first kiss, which happens by a pear tree that Janie enjoys spending time under, happens with a boy named Johny Taylor, unfortunately the whole situation is spoiled when Janie is caught by her grandmother "On a late afternoon Nanny had called her to come inside the house because she had spied Janie letting Johny Taylor kiss her over the gatehouse", and in an attempt to lo...

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In Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston disregarded the typical gender conventions of her time when she created Janie Mae Crawford, the main character in her book. Over the course of the novel, Janie embarks on a journey, both physically and spiritually where she searches for a sense of personal identity, independence and love in the rural south. Janie refuses to adopt the role of the traditional black woman of this time, ignoring the wishes of her grandmother and going against all odds, Janie attempts to fulfill her dreams and aspirations. ... This revelat...

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Tonni Morrison's novel Sula is about two young black girls who become very close friends but soon depart after taking different paths through life. ... There was also and incident where Sula was swinging a young boy by the name of Chicken Little, and accidentally lost grip of his hands which resulted in him flying into the water and drowning. ... The novel shows society's negative view of Sula when it describes how she returned to the Bottom "accompanied by a plague of robins" (89). ... It's this insistence that eventually gets read as a recklessness and Sula later becomes...

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Normally, the boy's family sends a match-maker to the girl's family to raise the proposal. ... The girl prefers the boy to take the initiative to go after her rather than the contrary. ... For instance, the boy's parents will meet the girl, or the girls parents meet with the boy. ...

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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEEN EARNEST The play was writen by Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900), who was an Irish author. Wilde studied the classics at Trinity College, Dublin, with distinction (from 1871 to 1874), and at the Magdalen College in Oxford, (1...

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