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Using Structure to Develop the Story in How to Make an American Quilt and The Color Purple

This 9 page paper describes the way in which two authors use structure to develop the ideas in their books. The works under consid...

Revealing Self Through Writing According to Alice Walker

siblings to be one of the "lucky" ones to go to the fair with him. The image is of a pretty, favored child. Walker next relates ...

"The Color Purple" - Gender and Postmodernism

philosophical movement, having been founded in direct opposition to the tenets of modernism (namely, the scientific objectivity an...

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...

The Theme of the Violent African American Patriarchy in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In five pages the focus of this paper is on how women of the African American community must come together and form a unified sist...

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...

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...

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...

Celie in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

the reader to truly understand just how strong she is: "It all I can do not to cry. I can make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie...

Sofia in 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker

is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...

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...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Black Women Overcoming Oppression

Ultimately, "It is through their friendships, their love, their shared oppression... that they collectively gain the strength to s...

Feminine Voice in Walker’s The Color Purple

In a novel in which the narrator is recounting the entirety of the action after the fact, the narrator already knows everything th...

Alice Walker's Emphasis on Womanism

This nine page essay explores the theme of womanism that characterizes both Alice Walker's life and her writings. Meaning and app...

A Comparative Analysis of In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, Arts in the Contact Zone and The Hundred Secret Senses

In eight pages these texts by Alice Walker, Mary Louise Pratt, and Alice Walker are examined in terms of unconscious and 'magical'...

The Writing Techniques Alice Walker Uses to Address Her Concerns

In six pages the ways in which Walker employs fiction to express her concern about specific issues and love of humanity are consid...

Walker, Pearson, Frankl, Miller, and Fromm on Identity and Meaning

In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...

The Woman Who Watches Over the World by Linda Hogan

on to become one herself for a time. She states, "One of my friends describes drinking as the lost years. Many of us have had them...

Applying Carol Pearson's Archetypes to Literature

nature, such as a tree, or a flower. What Frankl noticed was that those survivors of the camps, such as he was, came out of the ca...

America and Being Black and Female

love and cherish them for who they are. But it does not happen in these stories, nor does it seem to be happening within the moder...

Artists' Power in Works by Toni Morrison and J.D. Salinger

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

Writing Style in Alice Walker's When the Other Dancer is the Self

me turn on the one child at the school who continually calls me one-eyed bitch" (Walker). Her story is powerful, intimate, and inc...

Comparison and Contrast: Alice Walker and James Baldwin

struggle to find her identity, an African American identity, is obviously influenced by the white society. This is noted when her ...

Protagonist Monologues

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

Alice Walker’s Coming Apart

pleasure he has enjoyed is a violation of his rights" (Walker). As a man he is ignorantly assuming that he has the right to have s...