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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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"The Color Purple", 2008.
An analysis of the lessons to be learnt from the novel "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker.
1,317 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper looks at how the novel "The Color Purple" deals with the subject of racism and the oppression of African-American women. It discusses how the lessons to be learned from "The Color Purple" are that it is most important to find your personal god, and not accept someone else's version, risking a less-than-satisfactory spiritual connection. It also looks at how religion and spirituality can be very beneficial to the African-American woman, empowering her, and giving her faith to keep going in life, but it is imperative that she find her own god, and not accept others' representations.
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"The most insightful part of the book comes when Celie and Shug talk about God. Celie reveals that she envisions God as the archetypal old, bearded white man (Walker 194). She has recently lost touch with this god. The problem with her view of God is that it actually inhibits her from experiencing her spirituality to its fullest possible extent. "Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgetful and lowdown," Celie says (Walker 192). She even realizes the fact that she is praying to a God who resembles someone she has learned to hate, but she doesn't realize that this is her fault instead of God's fault. It is her fault that she embodies her faith with a stereotypical male, whom she has experienced to be violent and distrustful. "
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'Song of Solomon' and 'The Color Purple', 2002.
Examines themes of freedom in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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In Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", psychological and emotional freedom is presented as a goal that has to be earned. In the case of each novel's main characters, that freedom is earned by rising above and moving beyond suffering and pain: the characters transcend their old, hurtful existences and achieve freedom from what dragged them down earlier in life. Milkman Dead in "Song of Solomon" and Celie in "The Color Purple" achieve very different kinds of freedom. Celie's story ends in an almost stereotypical "happy ending," while Milkman Dead's fate is much more ambiguous, but both characters leave their past pain behind and move into a better present.
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"The Color Purple", 2002.
A comparative essay showing the differences between Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" and the movie based on the novel, directed by Spielberg.
1,180 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 40.95
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The paper shows the differences between the novel by Alice Walker, "The Color Purple" and the film by the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg. The paper shows the distinct differences between film and the literature that inspired both versions of "The Color Purple", differences unique to each different media that yield very different effects upon the reader and upon the viewers of Walker's tale.
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"In contrast, Celie";s pregnancy in the film is revealed not verbally but visually. Film is often called a visual rather than a verbal medium and the film";s rendering of this event confirms this. In the film, a sense of Celie";s innocence is conveyed by the young girl"\";s voice singing songs with her younger sister, the sight of the child Celie playing patty-cake with her sister and the two girls running through green fields. The scene looks idyllic, until the young actress playing Celie becomes entirely revealed from head to toe. Then, the viewer suddenly realizes with a jolt, the child is pregnant."
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The Different Voices of ?The Color Purple?, 2004.
A discussion of how Alice Walker portrays social issues in the rural South during the first half of the 20th century in her book, ?The Color Purple?.
1,275 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper examines Alice Walkers's novel ,"The Color Purple", and reveals how, through the characters of the book, Walker addresses several social issues of the era. In particular, it looks at how, throughout the novel, she is devoted to exploring women?s roles within the patriarchal system, emphasizing their desires for freedom, spirituality, and creativity and how she is able to communicate to the reader what it means to be poor, black, and female in the rural South during the first half of the 20th century. It shows how, through the lives of the characters in "The Color Purple", she presents several individual social aspects such as patriarchy, sexuality, and spirituality.
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"Walker advocates freedom of expression for women. She also believes that a person who is not free to express his or her love is a slave of themselves, just as anyone who would prohibit expression of love has a ?slaveholder?s mentality? (Living 91). Celie is beaten by her stepfather because he says she has winked at a boy, she writes: ?I don?t even look at mens. That?s the truth. I look at women, tho, cause I?m not scare of them.? (Color 6). Celie is attracted to Shug. ?First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery, I thought I had turned into a man? (51). The two women lived together for awhile until Shug meets a young man and falls in love with him. Celie is heartbroken and returns home. During this time of her life, Celie and Mister become friends and he proposes marriage."
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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, 2008.
A review of the book "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker, which follows the life of Celie Johnson as she struggles through life in the early 1900s.
772 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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The paper presents a short literary analysis of the book "The Color Purple", written by Alice Walker. The paper explores the story, the meaning and the themes that run through the book and argues that the book presents an argument about the cyclic nature of racism and sexism.
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" Throughout history many authors have used their works to convey a message or idea to the reader. Sometimes this is a purposeful act of writing and other times it simply conveys such things as a by product of telling the story. Such is the case with Alice Walker's The Color Purple. As she tells the story of several Black women in one family setting as the story unfolds the reader can easily trace the themes of sexism and racism and the cyclic nature of them both in society."
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Scripting of Gender: "The Color Purple", 2002.
A review of Alice Walker?s novel "The Color Purple".
1,491 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper examines Alice Walker?s "The Color Purple", a confessional and uninhibited look at the life of Celie, a poor, black woman in the Deep South. It discusses how Celie?s life is a complicated story of both community and individuality and how as a woman, she is surrounded by societal expectations and traditional gender scriptings. It shows how the story is a contrast between the traditional gender roles and while some characters embody certain behaviors and attitudes indicative of their sex, others denounce the long-holding patriarchy defining sexism and gender interactions. It evaluates how, in developing each of her characters throughout the novel, Walker overtly specifies how each does not meet the conventional mold.
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"As the bonds between Celie and Sofia grow following their original clash, Walker introduces another female character. This time, the semi-famous former lover of Mr.____ comes to stay at their household while she recuperates from a grave illness. At first, Shug Avery is hateful towards Celie. She mocks her good intentions, orders her around, and calls her ugly. Yet Celie feels nothing but awestruck towards this woman. Celie also begins to have conflicting erotic feelings for Shug; feelings she does not understand when seeing Shug naked and giving her a bath. The course of this relationship drives towards lesbianism. "
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The Color Purple, 2007.
A summary and review of "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker.
1,929 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 0 sources, APA, $ 61.95
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The paper discusses Alice Walker's widely-acclaimed novel "The Color Purple", which recounts the lives and struggles of African-American female characters in the early 1900s in Georgia. The paper comments that the book focuses on the important issues pertaining to the lives of blacks in the United States during the early twentieth century. The paper also comments that it is an intricate examination of the role that African-American women played in society, illustrating, the discrimination they faced due to their race and gender. The paper states that the book's most prominent thematic ideas are directly related to the importance of freedom, redemption, and the power of the individual.
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"The book is largely feministic in its message, and could even be criticized for portraying black males badly and stereotypically. In general, though, it is the life and journey of an African-American woman in the South in the early twentieth century. Her saga is chronicled through her own letters, and she develops as an immensely poignant, powerful character who commands the attention of the reader throughout the novel. She learns to overcome the submission and the weakness that had come upon her as a result of her constant abuse, and she comes out as a confident and self-assured woman, though it is not until many years later."
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Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", 2008.
A look at the literary technique used in the book "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker.
833 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper reviews the literary proficiency that Alice Walker employs in her book "The Color Purple". The author of the paper examines the use of this technique in building the character of the story and how it conveys to readers how Alice Walker uses her main character's command of the English language to convey her sense of self confidence and ego development.
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"Alice Walker depicts these important female bonds as being established through language - i.e., the exchanging of confidences and ideas, the giving and receiving of advice and comfort; other positive, ego-affirming verbal exchanges. Here then, the use of language for deepening friendships, mutual understandings, and self-understanding in particular nourishes Celie and helps her finally know and articulate not just how she has felt and feels now, but who she is and wants to be."
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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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Women And Religion in "The Color Purple", 2008.
A review of the theme of the importance of female relationships and their importance in society as seen in Alice Walker's novel, "The Color Purple."
1,781 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper discusses Alice Walker's 1982 novel, "The Color Purple." The paper looks at the issues in this novel, such as gender differences and dynamics, social issues, religion and its impact on the world and racial tensions. The paper focuses specifically on theme of the importance of female relationships and their impact on the dissolution of a patriarchal God figure that dictates the roles of womanhood.
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"Celie begins to liberate herself from the dogmatic and deeply embedded images of religion after Shug expresses her own thoughts about God. Instead of writing letters to God, Celie now begins to write letters to her sister Nettie. Celie states to Nettie "trying to chase that old white man out of my head. . .[is] hard work. . .He been there so long, he don't want to budge. . .I hardly pray at all. . .I. . .[write] to you instead of to God" (Walker 179-180). Because of the friendship that Walker establishes between Celie and Shug, this internal transformation in Celie's self-awareness about God and religion is able to take place. Because Celie is no longer fearful of who or what God is, she is able to make other liberating decisions in her life. For example, she tells her berating husband that he is "a lowdown dog" (Walker 181) and that "it's time to leave [him] and enter into the Creation" (Walker 181). Celie's former acquiescence to a controlling male environment is clearly evaporating from her own world due to Shug's personal influences. James C. Hall (1992) explains that it is Shug's own rejection to the patriarchal view of God that makes possible "the way for Celie's selfhood" (Hall 94)."
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Characters in "The Color Purple", 2002.
Explores the depth of the characters, Nettie and Celie in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper shall compare and contrast the characters of Celie and Nettie in Alice Walker's novel, "The Color Purple". This comparison shall be created through the use of the "point by point" method, where independent aspects of each character are first presented and then compared and contrasted.
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The Hollywood Version of 'The Color Purple', 2005.
This paper looks at the Hollywood adaptation of the book "The Color Purple".
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 5 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper discusses that the film adaptation of 'The Color Purple' necessarily changes the content of the novel in order to create an epic Hollywood spectacle. The writer points out that it retains the essence of the story that stirred many black women. The writer notes that it is still the story of a beaten down black woman who with the love of her black sisters triumphs over adversity to become an independent woman and entrepreneur.
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"The Color Purple", 2005.
A review of the movie "The Color Purple".
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses the movie "The Color Purple." It studies conflicts in the movie, focusing on the value-system of the principle culture being examined. The paper also discusses the values of other subcultures presented in the film. The paper concludes with an evaluation of society and culture at the time depictd in the flim.
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"In 'The Color Purple', the main character Celie has to contend with many social issues, including mysogyny, racism, poverty and her lesbianism. Growing up as a black woman in the South, she suffers first when she is raped by the man she believes is her father..."
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