A'Lelia Walker

In the track “God Help the Outcasts,” Esmerelda sings a song of prayer, asking God for help. It shows us how helpless and desperate Esmerelda is, how hopelessly trapped she was in the cathedral and how hopeless the situation of the gypsies seems like. The composers made this song into a prayer, metaphorically describing how no one on earth will have helped them. The part of the song where the other characters in the cathedral sing shows how genuine Esmerelda’s prayer is. The others ask for…

pursue a freedom of her own. Sofia also takes a “looking glass” (Walker, 67). Mirrors are very important when it comes to hoodoo and conjure. Mirrors can protect one from spells and may be used to reverse spells and hexes that one has been placed under. This mention of a mirror may symbolize and foreshadow the protection Sofia may need in the future. Also in this chapter, Sofia’s sisters are described to be “big strong healthy girls” (Walker, 67). And these girls deliver Sofia to her new found…

Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, and Zora Neale Hurston are prominent black women authors in contemporary American literature. These three women share their experiences living in the South during a time of racism. Each of them has a distinct writing style. All include an insight into experiences similar to ones they have gone through and the impact it makes on black women in society. “Feminism’s second wave in the United States—initially a reflection of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and…

Walker presents various aspects of her characters to establish how they develop throughout the story. Maggie, for example, can be classified as a developing character because of her personality/behavior change that is noticed as the story progresses. At…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote her book, Purple Hibiscus, through the eyes of a teenage girl, Kambili. Papa’s two children, Jaja and Kambili start out as extremely sheltered and structured children. As the novel progresses the two of them go to live with their aunty Ifeoma for a couple of weeks. As soon as they arrive, they begin to change drastically as they both begin to find themselves. Both Jaja and Kambili start to become more independent because their aunty Ifeoma allows them to have…

Shug Avery is a pivotal character in Alice Walker's the color purple due to the affect she has on Celie and Albert. Shug helps Celie define who she is as a person and change her outlook upon life and the current situations that she's facing. She also has a very special relationship with Albert spanning back many years into both their youths. Shug is used in the book as a character designed to further move the plot and show the mentality changes in Celie and Albert over the course of the book.She…

Throughout history there have been many depictions of the struggles that black women face and how those struggles are overcome. Alice Walker’s novel “The Color Purple” showcases Celie’s journey of self-discovery and the struggles that must be overcome in order to find one’s self. Celie has many different relationships with the minor characters, such as Mr._, who shows Celie that people can change, Sofia & Harpo, who reverse gender roles and show Celie the error in her ways, Nettie & Shug who…

The younger generations may not know what a wonderful person Paul Newman is but this is the reason for writing this paper about his life and established career. He is a local who shot to stardom and became a household name in both acting and business. I am here to tell you about his early life, his acting career, and the race car driver whom he lived to be. Who would have known that someone from Ohio could be so successful. Paul Leonard Newman, the second son, was born in Shaker…

The protagonist Celie life have much understanding of struggle and she realizes that her life is filled with pain and struggle of all sorts; her stepfather and husband is mostly the cause of it. Alice Walker portrays Celie in the beginning of the story as this weak-minded young woman who life is helpless and will become nothing other than the generalized life of an African-American woman in this time period. Celie is abuse sexually and physically by her stepfather, for things she doesn’t do.…

The Color Purple could really have 10 different themes but the one that made most sense was the power of love and Alice Walker really nailed it. The book is centered around Celie, the main character whom at the beginning of the story is 14 years old. At the beginning love isn't a thing for her especially with her father Alphonso who rapes her and disregards her. As the story comes along Celie begins to build a relationship with Shug Avery and her sister Nettie which leads her to learn the true…