In the article “From Candy Girls to Sista-Cypher: Narrating Black Females’ Color-Consciousness and Counterstories in and out of School” by Carmen Kynard, she discusses about a group of black women that fight for institutional racism. Kynard’s stated goal is to use multiple narratives that explore how digital technologies offer hush harbors for Black female college students’ social and literacy practiced in what she describes as “digitized Candy Girls”. Kynard’s meaning of word for Candy Girl was originally adopted after a popular song in the 80s, she uses the word for African American girls who she attend school with and managed to get through issues of Black girlhood. After reading the article, I strongly agree with Kynard’s statement.
The Color Purple tells the story of a young girl, Celie, who lives in the early 1900’s in the South. By the age of 14, she has been raped and pregnant twice by her stepfather Fonso. Celie has a deep relationship and love for her younger sister Nettie, just like Esch is valued and supported by her brothers Randall, Skeet, and Junior. Both girls face struggles with men and are pressured to mature at a very young age due to the responsibilities that life, and men, throws at
Alice Walker is considered a Revolutionary for many people because of the struggles she fought through as an African American woman, novelist, and activist living in the mid to late 1900’s. Alice Walker shows how women have struggled in America with having similar and equal rights to white men. She also shows how African Americans struggle with the same problems when it comes to achieving similar or equal rights to a white male. In the novel, “The Color Purple”, written by Alice Walker, the main protagonist, Celie, learns to find her own voice and own self worth through a series of obstacles that she had to overcome throughout her journey; similar to the way Alice Walker also had struggles of being an African American woman during the mid to
At some point in everyone’s life they face some form of adversity, it is how they deal with this adversity that defines them as human beings and the paths that their lives will take. Everybody deals with the adversity thats faces them in several different ways, this may be due to their up-bringing, their outlook on life or their perception of the world and what they believe their role is within the game of life. Within the essay ‘Beauty: when the other dancer is the self’ author Alice Walker refers to the fact that after the incident which resulted in her blindness she refers to the fact that people began to judge her not for her innocence nor youth, but for her injury for example when she writes that they will stare at her ‘Not at the cute little girl, but at her scar’ (24). A sense of judgement is apparent in both essays because within the essay ‘ The clan of one breasted women’ Terry Tempest Williams writes about how ‘fatty diets, childlessness or becoming pregnant after thirty’ was to blame for their families problems with cancer, even though it is was apparent that the family was mormon and by religion would not consume : ‘ No coffee, no tea, tobacco or alcohol’ (317).
The Color Purple was meet with disapproval during the initial release mainly from the Black community. Still, to this day thirty-two years later Alice Walker is scrutinized with individuals making nasty remarks and attacking her sexuality. Did Alice Walker stereotype Black males in the novel? Absolutely not, I don’t believe she did. First and foremost, it’s important to realize that she is telling the story from the point of view of a Black girl/woman.
"When he found the eyes of Hester Prynne fastened on his own, and saw that she appeared to recognize him, he slowly and calmly raised his finger, made a gesture with it in the air, and laid it on his lips." -The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chapter 3, page This quote ties in together with the theme of the book because Hester Prynne’s husband had left her, leaving her clueless as to her not knowing if he would be back or not. As Chillingworth, Hester's husband, does this motion towards her, I feel like he is threatening her. Almost as if he is promising, “I know what you did and I’m here to make your life hell”, and as he moves his finger to his lips, he’s sealing the promise.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker should be kept in school libraries because it conveys the importance of family, shows examples of overcoming hardship and discusses serious topics such as rape and death. The Color Purple is an inspiring, beautiful, and powerful read for teens. The Color Purple is important for teens to read because its most prominent theme is how family sticks together through thick and thin, and it talks about the value of it as well. Within the first 20 pages of the book, Celie is separated from her sister, Nettie.
Family Through According to Alice Walker Alice Walker had a lot to say about family in her book, The Color Purple, in this book family had loose conditions and was often inter tangled. Celie’s friends and family were remarkably confusing and complicated at times, because many people were sleeping with people they were not married to and that was married to their friends. However, no family is perfect, so why would this one be, in the end it was all Celie and everybody else really needed.
The Color Purple is written by Alice Walker, and was later made into a film directed by Steven Spielberg. The Color Purple focuses on a woman who is going through struggles in life, such as her father raping her as a child and her oppressed marriage. In the end she learns to deal with life through God and to take everyday as a blessing. Not only does the film and book speak about life struggles but also they share the points of happiness in the book, and love, in the film through the plot structure, the mood, and the journey to womanhood.
Literary Analysis: The Color Purple Every individual learns something new or different every day, whether it is somebody’s favorite color or learning something new about yourself. Many people can either learn from their hardships and past experiences, while others may learn from other people’s past through stories or guidance. Throughout the novel, The Color Purple written by Alice Walker, the main character, Celie, learned how to love herself, that everyone makes mistakes, and face her fears.
Introduction The Color Purple is a novel written by an American author Alice Walker and was published in 1982. It won numerous awards in literature and film as it had many musical, film and radio adaptations, particularly the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It primarily involves the subject of feminism and addresses issues in sexism and racism in the early 20th century in the United States. The story is all about a girl named Celie, a black woman who lives in the Southern part of US.
Name Instructor Course Date Analysis of Sisterhood Redemption through unity in The Color Purple shows ways in which sisterhood can produce and reinforce newly-formed unions between women, resulting in a sense of autonomy and independence. Sisterhood offers women the chance to gain self-discovery and the capacity to define their lives and sexuality.
Slavery in America created an upsurge of racial discrimination. This demoralizing practice forced many generations of black “slave” Americans to endure, or more specifically suffer the extortions of white people. They were dehumanized as the very essential criteria for survival in society was eliminated from their lives or even from their dreams. Their identity, their self respect suffered for they were viewed as the “properties” of white people. America gradually became a powerful country
Understanding ourselves as well as our own personality is essential especially nowadays when huge numbers of people are unsatisfied with their jobs owing to the fact that they are not able to align work with their personal strengths and interests. By using Jung’s and Briggs Myers’theories of personality type along with Big Five Model which had been developed by psychologists over almost a century to create Personality Trait Test, these days people can identify and evaluate personalities to have a clearer view for future careers as well as personal lives. I have done this test too and its result helps me a lot to orient myself later. First of all, according (A.Judge, 2010), The Big Five Personality Model are (1) Extraversion, (2) Agreeableness,
Monika Pareek Professor Dasgupta Women's Writing 7th April 2016. Exploring the idea of 'womanism' in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker (b. 1944) is a novel of celebration of black women who challenge the unjust authorities and emerge beyond the yoke of forced identities. It is situated in Georgia, America, in 1909 and written entirely in the epistolary form, mainly by Celie, the main protagonist and her sister, Nettie.
