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she is sent to live with another family and then goes off to Africa on missionary work with them. In essence, Celie is not only ut...

being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...

Prue has the insight to ask Gordon if he wants to marry her, Prue, when he falls out of love with this new person in his life. Go...

to cultural identity that is equally passionate to her mothers stance. She believes that identity cannot be realized fully withou...

* Adjacent to and on a coin on the floor well under the front passenger seat; * A flow of blood on the hinge of the right...

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

only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a d...

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

style. It is with this strength and power that Walkers women are able to cope with extreme situations and make their lives more w...

a whole, has no idea what rape is like if one has not experienced it. This is primarily the entire foundation of the story for p...

of these characters. Particularly insightful, Demirturk sums up the novel by stating that Tashi sacrificed her gender identity to ...

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...

it clear that there are many unsolved frictions between the two sisters, frictions which include the fact that the youngers husban...

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

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

never really told what happened and she looks very similar to Susie so she seems to bear the hardest burden of all because people ...

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

plot, he said that he could not possibly relate what went on during the three-hour production (Kolin and Davis 19). Author Philip ...

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

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 ...

cotton, peanuts and squash ... that cause excited little tremors to run up her jaws" (Walker, 2002). Clearly, Myop was a h...

actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...

her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...

dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...

each womans strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within ones very being. It i...

as Grange becomes unhappy with his simple life. He leaves behind this wife and child in order to find something better. And, it is...

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