Mary Teresa Themes
1. “Harpo say, I love you, Squeak. He kneel down and try to put his arms round her waist. She stand up. My name Mary Agnes, she say.”-This passage is from Celie’s forty-first letter. Squeak has just returned from an unsuccessful attempt to release Sofia from prison. The prison warden raped Squeak, and she returns home battered and torn. However, Squeak is not defeated, and she makes an important act of resistance when she decides to reject the belittling nickname, Squeak, that Harpo has given her. She insists on being called by her given name, Mary Agnes. By renaming herself, Mary Agnes resists the patriarchal words and symbols that Harpo has imposed upon her. Walker repeatedly stresses the importance of language and storytelling as ways of
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She depicts vividly the sexism, racism and poverty that make that life often a struggle. But she also portrays as part of that life, the strengths of family, community, self-worth, and spirituality. Many of her novels depict women in other periods of history than our own. Just as with non-fiction women's history writing, such portrayals give a sense of the differences and similarities of women's condition today and in that other time.
Theme: The power of narrative and voice; the power of strong female relationships; the cyclical nature of racism and sexism; the disruption of traditional gender roles
Setting- Rural Georgia-1910–1940. Though The Color Purple is a historical novel, it never refers to any factual events. There are no dates, little sense of the passage of time, and very few mentions of characters’ ages
Literary Devices- Metaphors, Simile, Personification, Repetition, and Foreshadowing
I found the book quite educating. It is not common that a book is written about racial profiling from a woman’s perspective, and I could really connect with that. I enjoyed how she used the kind of dialect she did, because it truly made it seem genuine. I did not like how constant the abuse was for women in the novel, but I guess it was common in the setting of the
She depicts vividly the sexism, racism and poverty that make that life often a struggle. But she also portrays as part of that life, the strengths of family, community, self-worth, and spirituality. Many of her novels depict women in other periods of history than our own. Just as with non-fiction women's history writing, such portrayals give a sense of the differences and similarities of women's condition today and in that other time.
Theme: The power of narrative and voice; the power of strong female relationships; the cyclical nature of racism and sexism; the disruption of traditional gender roles
Setting- Rural Georgia-1910–1940. Though The Color Purple is a historical novel, it never refers to any factual events. There are no dates, little sense of the passage of time, and very few mentions of characters’ ages
Literary Devices- Metaphors, Simile, Personification, Repetition, and Foreshadowing
I found the book quite educating. It is not common that a book is written about racial profiling from a woman’s perspective, and I could really connect with that. I enjoyed how she used the kind of dialect she did, because it truly made it seem genuine. I did not like how constant the abuse was for women in the novel, but I guess it was common in the setting of the