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The Color Purple Novel by Alice Walker

sad position of a young girl who is oppressed in every possible way. Her sister, however, becomes far more educated and travels wi...

Women's Relationships in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Toni Morrison's Sula

forbidden to them, they have set about creating something else to be" (Morrison 52). For example, Sula would go to Nels house to s...

Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah, Joe Klein's Primary Colors, and Political Ethics

lesser of the two evils approach, but yet an approach that clearly illustrates how far the lack of ethics and morals in the politi...

Analyzing Martha Stewart Everyday Colors® Advertisement

which begins, "We have 256 wonderful paint colors. You have infinite possibilities" (Martha Stewart Everyday Colors, 2003; p. 45)...

Lydia Chavez' The Color Blind California's Battle to End Affirmative Action

gives certain people preferential treatment. Interestingly, this book reveals, with significant candor, both sides of this now co...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Celie's Self Discovery

by her contemporaries. These women will weave a rich fabric of friendship, which is symbolically referred to in the novel through...

Society and How Color Functions

a personal discrimination and not a discrimination against his race as a whole. And, they are quick to point out that the sufferin...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

Virginia Woolf's 'The New Dress,' Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' and Gender Themes

that they tend to destroy themselves from within. This inner destruction of the community toward one another is also symbolic of ...

Selfhood in Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan and The Color Purple by Alice Walker

are still fleeing nonetheless. From the moment Grace Blanket is murdered until the closing pages of the book, the Indians seem to...

Injustice in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

This paper consists of six pages and discusses how injustice manifests in the novel and how Shug, Nettie, and God, represent liber...

The Oppression Theme in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how oppression can be overcome as represented by the soaring characters who rise a...

An Epistolary Novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In a paper that consists of five pages the ways in which the novel's format represents a series of letters that have been written ...

The Characterization of Celie in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In four pages this essay explores how the character of Celie illustrates various value concepts. There is no bibliography include...

The Nettie Character in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

This is a character analysis tha consists of four pages and argues how Nellie is one of the only characters that possess strong et...

The Themes of Change and Survival in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In this essay of four pages the ways change and survival are represented in the novel and how to Celie Shug serves as the catalyst...

Steven Spielberg's Cinematic Depiction of Alice Walker's Novel The Color Purple

In five pages this paper analyzes if Spielberg structurally changed Walker's novel in his film version and concludes that he does ...

Injustice in Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple' and Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables'

This paper consisting of 6 pages explores the injustice that Celie and Jean Valjean experience in these literary texts. No additi...

'The Doctor's Wife' and 'The Color Purple'

In this 7 page paper, there are six similarities and six differences between these texts authored by Sawako Ariyoshi and Alice Wal...

Women of Color and Print Media

and Cosmopolitan. While both magazines market their product to a primarily female audience, it can readily be argued that Black B...

Characterization in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

in particular is feminism and its religious heterodoxy" (12). An examination of the film and novel amply supports this observation...

Barney, Sesame Street, and the Colors Yellow and Purple

and love, was nothing like Sesame Street. Instead of the sophistication of Sesame Street (which, interestingly enough, had gone fr...

The Banning of The Color Purple by Alice Walker

anyone who has read the book, there are some disturbing scenes in the book that are so powerfully written and detailed that the re...

Character Comparison of James and Ruth in The Color of Water by James McBride

the South and its prejudices behind to escape the sexual abuse of her father, a one-time rabbi turned shopkeeper, whose racism fou...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man, Nella Larsen's Passing, and Lynching

married to a very successful doctor who wishes to leave the country and find a place where they are not oppressed. Irene, however,...

James McBride's The Color of Water and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

a woman with a very strong sense of the Chinese culture. It is, in these respects, a novel that speaks of searching for identity a...

James McBride's The Color of Water

he confesses. What the reader comes to learn is that Ruth McBride was born Ruth Shilsky and that she and her family immigrated fro...

Othello by William Shakespeare and the Significance of the Color White

In five pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of white in this tragedy by William Shakespeare. Four sources are cited in...

Schools Not Color Blind Yet

In spite of all attempts to remove race as a determining factor in American schools, it continues to be a problem. This paper argu...