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"The Color Purple" ( Alice Walker ) and the Film, 1999.
Compares the novel and film, including content, characters, messages, styles and realism.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 2 sources, $ 55.95
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The book and the film of The Color Purple have very different emphases and show different attitudes on the part of their respective creators. The subject matter is essentially the same--the mistreatment of black women by their men--but the movie directed by Steven Spielberg is much more poetic in tone, so that for all its criticism of this aspect of black life, it comes off as a nostalgic film.
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"The book and the film of The Color Purple have very different emphases and show different attitudes on the part of their respective creators. The subject matter is essentially the same--the mistreatment of black women by their men--but the movie directed by Steven Spielberg is much more poetic in tone, so that for all its criticism of this aspect of black life, it comes off as a nostalgic film. The book has a much harder edge because it takes place in the mind of one victim of this kind of life, expressed by her through letters that fairly cry out for help and for a different life. This is lost in the film first because the letters are at a distance from the viewer and second because the entire story is somehow sugar-coated in some peculiar fashion, with numerous film cliches substituted for a real analysis of the issues or the characters."
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"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker, 1992.
A comparison of the novel by Alice Walker and the film by Steven Spielberg.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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""The Color Purple"
Alice Walker's The Color Purple was published in 1982, and it immediately became both a best-selling novel and a statement that helped to define black women in America. It was inevitable that Hollywood would decide to make the movie version of the book, so in 1985, Steven Spielberg directed "The Color Purple," which won an Academy Award for its star, Whoopi Goldberg. The purpose of this paper is to construct a comparative analysis of the differences between the novel and the movie.
Perhaps it is very indicative of the difference between the two versions of Celie's story that each one has a very distinctive beginning. These openings set the tone for the overall work that is to follow. In Alice Walker's novel, the..."
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"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker, 1986.
This paper is a summary and character analysis lloking at poor, black & female in pre-Civil Rights American South.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"On a surface level, it is relatively easy to characterize Alice Walker's novel, The Color Purple, as a tale of growing up and coming of age while poor, Black, and female in the pre-civil rights American South. A careful examination of the story, characters, and major theme, however, reveals that the novel transcends the obvious characteristics to become a universal treatment of the human condition. Ultimately, The Color Purple is a symbolic presentation of "Everyman" and "Everywoman."
Summary of the Novel
Alice Walker's The Color Purple is presented as a series of letters, first from Celie to God and then an exchange of letters between Celie and her sister Nettie. In the first half of the novel, Celie writes to God because of the admonishment, "You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy"
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"The Color Purple" (Alice Walker) and "The Joy Luck Club" (Amy Tan)., 1992.
Compares gender and cultural roles and biases in the two novels.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 39.95
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"Alice Walker's The Color Purple depicts a world where masculinity is maintained at the expense of women. Maleness is defined by brutish acts of violence, emotional cruelty, callous disregard for others, and denial of basic education to women. As the book progresses, however, male displays of strength no longer cause fear but loathing. The male characters become impotent emotionally until they virtually disappear altogether. Amy Tan's series of vignettes in The Joy Luck Club depicts a world where men are already invisible, even impotent. The Chinese matriarchal society has all but suffocated outward displays of masculinity. Women, particularly older women, have the control and power though they deny their control. Only in present day America where the Chinese and American cultures clash, do we see a glimmer of the war between the sexes churning beneath the surface."
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Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", 2006.
Compares and contrasts Alice Walker's novel, "The Color Purple", with that of Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the novel.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 89.95
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The Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker was translated into cinematic form by the popular American director Steven Spielberg in 1985. The representation of a literary work in a radically different media form presents many complicated issues for directors who are not only incorporating their own vision of a text into their adaptation but must also consider such issues as commercial interests and film censors. This essay argues that the differences between the novel and the film version of "The Color Purple" are extraordinary and go beyond simple additions or omissions.
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Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", 1982.
This paper analyzes Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" especially the expression of violence and mistreatment of black women by black men.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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"In the novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker writes about people she has known, people who lived in the part of the country where she was raised, and she reflects the conditions of those people and the values they represented within the larger context of American society. They constitute a subculture shaped by particular economic and social forces. The subject matter is the mistreatment of black women by their men, and in exploring this theme, the book has takes place in the mind of a particular victim of this kind of life, expressed by her through letters that fairly cry out for help and for a different life. Celie is the young black girl living in Georgia who has never known any life but one with male violence in it. That violence has been created in large part by the economic and social realities of being black in America, but from the point of view of one black girl, all that ... "
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Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", 2006.
This paper studies Celie's language development in "The Color Purple."
2,614 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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The paper explains how the author uses her main character Celie's uneven language development as a means to illustrate and underscore Celie's poor self-confidence and sense of self. The paper highlights how the author portrays Celie's gradual ego development and ultimate satisfaction through her successful sewing business. The paper describes Celie as both an abused and a neglected child, and then an adolescent with nowhere to turn in order to express herself. The paper shows how the readers share the pain and the triumphs of Celie's linguistic and other developmental processes. The paper concludes that Celie is Walker's narrative voice of the long-silenced African-American woman.
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" Alice Walker in her novel The Color Purple (1982) uses her main character Celie's uneven language development, as a means to illustrate and underscore Celie's initially poor self-confidence and sense of self, and then, slowly, Celie's ego development and ultimate satisfaction and self-actualization, through her successful sewing business. Celie's initial use of language, within the first part of the story, is the verbal equivalent of halting, hesitant baby steps. Later on, though, after much hardship and humiliation, and with much verbal support and encouragement from friends like Shug and Sophia, Celie learns to speak with much greater confidence and language fluency. I will describe how Celie's use of language within The Color Purple underscores both her struggles and her character development throughout the story."
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Alice Walker's "The Color Purple": Women of Strength, 2001.
A look at the characters of Celie and Shug and their growth through their relationship.
1,330 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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The essay shows the similarities between the characters of Shug and Celie despite the apparent differences in their natures. The essay follows their personal growth which is brought upon by their friendship and is completed only after they part ways.
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"Celie depended upon Shug for unconditional love and self-assurance. Being constantly told she was ugly and worthless had a tremendous effect on Celie and literally robbed her of her self-esteem and self worth. "She ugly...She ain't smart either" (Walker 9). This type of verbal abuse was a constant theme throughout Celie's life. She was forced, at the hands of society, to keep her feelings to herself. She kept her feelings so well buried in the confines of her mind that she began to compare herself to a piece of wood. Not until Shug came around and showed her some true human affection could she finally begin to break free of the chains that bound her and began to reveal the true loving, strong, independent woman she truly was. Such pure affection opened Celie's heart and soul to the true meaning of love, which in turn allowed her to understand and give love to another, as well as, love herself. And once Celie began to love herself, she was able to begin spreading her love to everything and everyone around her."
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"Alice in Wonderland" and "The Color Purple", 2002.
This paper deals with the notion of fantasy in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland "and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses that there is a strong theme suggesting that fantasy is used as an escapism from the impossibility of personal change. The author points out that, in the end, a liberation is gained through fantasy.
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Power Relations in the Film "The Color Purple", 2000.
1,260 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 42.95
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The paper looks at power relations in the film " The Color Purple" as they relate to gender and race and how they manifest themselves.
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"The film, The Color Purple, teems with vivid descriptions regarding the power structures of the early twentieth century, particularly those of the southern United States; upon close evaluation, the film also thoroughly illustrates concepts related to the Foucauldian and, to an extent, Althussarian interpretations of power. Since certain qualities of power are universal, such as its relationship with submission, objectives, and resistance, various exertions of power are surprisingly similar, insofar that The Color Purple's depictions of the power relations concerning race and those that concern gender are almost identical."
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"The Color Purple", 2002.
A review of the book, "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker, focusing on the main character's personal reawakening.
1,712 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes the book "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. Specifically, it examines the significance of purple in the novel, and describes how it relates to reawakening in the literary work. The paper illustrates how the color purple is a constant thread woven throughout the novel, and how it sets the stage for the main character, Celie's, reawakening by the end of the story.
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"The Color Purple" is an emotional and inspiring story of Celie, a woman who has faced nothing but abuse and violence in her life. She is married to Albert, a man who does not love her. Her stepfather repeatedly raped her, and he took away the two children resulting from the incest. Albert repeatedly beats her and tells her she is "nothing." "You Black, you pore, you ugly, you a woman. Goddam, you nothing at all" (Walker 176). Known only as "Mr. ---------" early in the novel, he only married Celie to take care of his children, because he was really in love with her sister. He even brings his sick mistress to the house and makes Celie nurse her back to health."
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"The Color Purple", 2007.
This paper evaluates the race, sexism, letters and sewing within "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker.
1,687 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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The paper examines the racial, sexist, letter and sewing symbolism within "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. The paper analyzes how Walker treats the issues of slavery and patriarchal male constructs in the novel and thus defines the female African-American experience.
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"The sexism within The Color Purple is controlled through a patriarchal racist institution of slavery. In one example in the novel, slave women had no rights to their children after birth. Nettie is a woman that has given birth to children, but plantation owners took their children after birth to sell into slavery. The issue of male dominance plays a major role in how women are perceived, especially as servants to the male populations on the plantation and within society. Although it might be easy to perceive the anger in Netti or Celie's voice in the novel, one really sees a women trying to stay alive and find people with love in their hearts."
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"The Color Purple", 2004.
A discussion on the relational connections between the characters in "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker.
879 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 31.95
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This paper reviews the novel, "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker, and looks at how the characters relational identity towards one another plays a significant role in the development of each character. Specifically, it looks at how the relationships between Celie and the other characters begins to define her and change her throughout the novel. It shows how relationship between Celie and Shug Avery is the focus from early on in the book, as is the relationship between Celie and her sister, Nettie.
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"The characters relational identity towards one another in The Color Purple played a significant role in the development of each character. Specifically, the relationships between Celie and the other characters begin to define her and change her throughout the novel. The relationship between Celie and Shug Avery is the focus from early on in the book as well as the relationship between Celie and her sister, Nettie. Once Nettie?s letters are found some of the focus returns back towards Nettie."
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"The Color Purple", 2002.
A review of the book "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker.
1,036 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses the story of "The Color Purple", an emotional and inspiring story of Celie, a woman who has faced nothing but abuse and violence in her life. It examines the significance of reawakening in the work and how as the novel progresses, Celie experiences a reawakening of her self-worth which propels her life in a new direction. It evaluates how this reawakening could not have happened without her letters, her spirituality and the input of people like Sofia.
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"Celie's sister Nettie is really the catalyst for Celie's transformation. She writes to Nettie when she has no one else in the world. It is Nettie who she looks up to, and Nettie who has gotten away from the family and made her own successful life. Nettie is one of only two people Celie has allowed herself to love, which makes her all the more important. It is through her letters to Nettie that she first begins to understand herself, and start on the path toward her reawakening. When she finds out Albert has been hiding Nettie's letters, she has gained the strength to stand up to him."
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Maya Angelou and Alice Walker, 2005.
This paper discusses the courage to stand-up to fight injustice as portrayed by the female African-American writers Alice Walker in "The Color Purple" and Maya Angelou in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
875 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper explains that female African-American writers Alice Walker in "The Color Purple" and Maya Angelou in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" use the horrors of the African-American experience to draw attention to racial prejudice, injustice and sexism making their protagonists struggle for their independence and their indignity. The author points out that in "The Color Purple", Walker, telling the story in diary form in a series of letters to God and between the sisters, uses a rape scene on the first page to draw her readers into the story. The paper relates that Angelou's work, written in a more formal style, is based on her real life experiences, which makes "Caged Bird" much more disturbing than "The Color Purple".
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"One of the most disturbing parts of the book is when the young Marguerite has a toothache and visits the white dentist. The dentist is in debt to Marguerite's grandmother, but refuses to treat the child, saying, "Annie, my policy is I'd rather stick my hand in a dog's mouth than in a nigger's." Usually, her grandmother responds to such racism with quiet dignity. However, in this case, Angelou uses a dream sequence to put the Dentist in her place. She imagines her grandmother confronting the dentist behind the closed door and telling the bigot "to leave Stamps by sundown". Momma tells him when he gets to the next town he is going to live his punishment will be he has to treat dogs with mange and cats with cholera. In this way, Angelou defeats the memory of the indignity of racism and her toothache."
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