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Alice Walker and Ellen Glasgow on Wives, Women, and 'the Other Woman'

willing to relegate to someone elses power. In Walkers essay, however, the focus is on pornography and the subtle way in which it ...

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...

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...

Mind and Body in the Works of Judith Ortiz Cofer and Alice Walker

from thereon, looked different. She was no longer cute, but different. Other people did not seem to care that she looked different...

'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's Invisibility

In five pages this paper analyzes 'invisible' women not by choice in No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston and The Color Purple by...

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 ...

Three African American Novels, Recurrent Themes

This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...

Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

This essay pertains to "Possessing the Secret of Joy" by Alice Walker. A summary of the plot is given and the writer also discusse...

Where are You Going, Where Have You Been and Everyday Things

say to her" (Walker,56). Maggie views herself as mentally inferior to Dee or as Walker puts it "she knows she...

Alice Walker and George Orwell

of these introductory lines the reader is made privy to who the individual is in some way, where they are, and ultimately what the...

A Review of Walker's "Hollywood UK"

steps back. Critics have largely agreed on the substandard quality of British cinema in the years immediately following World War ...

"The Color Purple" - Gender and Postmodernism

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

The Influences and Writing Style of Alice Walker

a child, Alice would listen to her parents families discuss their ancestry with pride, and Alice attributed her activism great-gre...

'To Hell with Dying' by Alice Walker

In four pages this paper argues that what the narrative does not say about social prejudices reveals more than the short story say...

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...

The Short Story Voice of Alice Walker

In this paper consisting of five pages the 'voice' Walker uses in constructing her short stories as expressed in sentence structur...

Anything We Love Can Be Saved A Writer's Activism by Alice Walker

In six pages Walker takes inspiration from Winnie Mandela and Zora Neale Hurston in presenting her own personal interpretation of ...

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 Disturbing Conflict in Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

without struggle: she recognizes that if she chooses to participate in this damaging physical ritual that she will define herself...

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...

The Life, Works and Philosophy of Alice Walker

shacks they were forced to live in to the yield from their crops. From a very young age, Walker experienced the racism of the Sout...

Meridian by Alice Walker

along the way. They have ideals, perhaps because it was popular at the time, and then "grow up." Or they are individuals with gran...

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...