Singing the Blues Elegant beautiful and respected those only a few words that describe Shug Avery An icon too many characters in the movie as well as the book Color Purple but superficial to others Well admired by those who didnt even know her and sung her way into their hearts Shug builds a different relationship with Mister in the book that is very different from the one she has in the movie Shug Avery a blues singer that is known all over the world Shug is deeply admired by Mister in the boo
The book The Color Purple by Alice Walker and the movie The Color Purple directed by Steven Spielberg share the same story line and characters The novel and the movie have more similarities than differences yet they still explain the theme of womanhood The similarities that are shared are really important and have to do mainly with the plot For example Celies stepfather raped her she had two children because of that and they were given to Samuel and Corrine Another similarity is that some of th
The Masque of the Red Death The story The Masque of the Red Death is a thought turning tale of a country possibly a fictional country that endured a murderous plague It was a traumatizing pain stricken time and many people died horrible deaths Edgar Alan Poe the author captured the story from his detailed perspective He described the rooms as if the personalities of the environments where alive The elements of the plague where horrific skin crawling and killed with no remorse It represents life
The Anthology of the American Short Story has many American short fiction stories When having to go through and choose one for my essay I had a hard time because all the authors I wanted to read we are already reading for class So I studied a lot of different authors and finally found one that caught my eye Alice Walker is best known for her critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple This novel made her the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as winning the
A Hidden Religious Message Flannery OConnor a Catholic writer makes religious references through out her short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find Everyone views religion differently in the world Catholics think more in depth than most of the other religions Colors in the Catholic Church represent seasons and have specific meanings The names of people places and items hold special significance in the faith In this tale the Grandmother and the Misfit disagree on their ideas about God until the end
The Color Purple is a powerful book which shows some of the African American experience early on in time Alice Walker created Celie the main character of this book that has many paths she has to travel to become successful The way Celie became successful was to change physically spiritually and emotionally One of the ways Celie changed was physically In the beginning of the book Celie was raped repeatedly and abused by a guy named Pa He started to choke me saying You better shut up and git used