hcom 324 ivan zamora maria orozco the color purple
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HCOM 324
Ivan Zamora
Maria Orozco
THE COLOR PURPLE
AUTHORS BIOGRAPHY
• Alice Walker (1944)
• African-American
• Novelist and Essay writer (fiction)
• “The Color Purple” (most famous book)
• First African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
• “Over Coming Speechless”
THE COLOR PURPLE
• Novel (fiction)
• Divided into 90 letters directed to God.
• Characters
• Celie
• Nettie
• Alphonso
• Mr. ____
• Shug Avery
• Harpe
• Shopia
• Sqeak
THEMES:
• Violence
• Denigration
• Lack of courage
• Abuse of power
• Gender roles
• Slavery (home, white, fear)
• Sexuality
• Female relationships
• Color
MEANING OF PURPLE
VIOLATION OF INNOCENCE
DENIGRATION OF WOMEN
LACK OF COURAGE
ABUSE OF POWER
GENDER ROLES
SEXUALITY
COLOR
FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS
• What other types of slavery exists other than being own as a property?
• What is role of women in society?
• What is Walker’s message to society?
• Piecing the patchwork self: a reading of Walker’s the color purple.
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