Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple to capture and illuminate the hardship and bitterness African American women had to face in the early 1900s. ... The Color Purple, was published in 1982. ... In The Color Purple, as in her other writings, Walker focuses on the theme of double repression of black women in the American experience. ... The primary theme of The Color Purple, though, reflects Walker's desire to project a positive outcome in life, even under the harshest conditions. ... In the screen translation of The Color Purple, Spielberg creates not only a faithful, but also a succes...

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The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a book about a young girl named Celie whose character undergoes a huge transformation in attitude from a passive and quite girl to a strong and courageously confident woman (Color 1). ... Throughout her life Walker went on to write many more books and win lots of awards, especially for her most famous book, The Color Purple. The Color Purple is said by many professionals to be Alice Walker's best piece of work. ... Peter Prescott comments in a Newsweek review that; "The Color Purple is an American novel of permanent importance, that rare sort of...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... One of the themes of The Color Purple is love redeems, hate kills and for Walker, redemptive love requires female bonding. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

With this luxury, Monet devoted himself to gardening, which served as the theme for his last series of paintings. ... Classical and sentimental themes, dry, precise methods, and indoor studio work was recognized. ... Its color is applied in strong, distinct strokes as if no reworking of the pigment had been attempted. ... Even though Monet had begun to loose his sight, his final series represents a "theme of peace and contemplation" (Seitz). ... They seem more concerned with color than his earlier paintings, with hues ranging from deep purple to blue, green, gray, lavender, turquoise, oran...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Also, that Nelly refers the Catherine by the pronoun 'mother' rather than by name raises the idea of the status and identity bestowed by motherhood, and that Cathy I's original identity will fade with time, being remembered as a mother rather than an individual – the theme of motherless children also being a prominent theme throughout the novel. Comparatively, the death of her mother for Celie in 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker is void of any sort of emotional attachment. ... Through this, Bronte conveys a certain joy in death for those who have no emotional...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He was muffled up in overcoat and a purple woolen scarf, and his tweed cap, which he did not remove, was pulled down on his head. ... The theme of this story, Love is giving and receiving, is shown through the setting in this story. ... The writer mentions the color yellow three times in the poem. The color yellow, as with all other colors, has both a positive and negative meaning. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

1. Discuss the novel as a psychological journey. Discuss how Henry Changes throughout the novel. What causes him to change? Henry Fleming is a young solider fighting for the union army during the civil war. Throughout the war Henry ventures on a long psychological journey to discover himself. Ofte...

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• Grade Level: High School

Racial Disparities in Discipline Children of color are subjected to far more suspensions and expulsions than their White counterparts. ... A third-grader at O'Rourke Elementary School in Mobile, Ala., was given a five-day suspension for violating the substance abuse policy after classmates reported that he took a "purple pill." ...

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• Grade Level: High School