13 Reasons Why I'm Stressed by Cynthia Vazquez https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao September 1, 1989 | Dear Diary: en-us 2018-12-13 18:51:57 UTC 2019-04-16 00:13:36 UTC hello@padlet.com Biography Note #1: Early Life (paraphrase) cynthia_v20 https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315299641 Born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia
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"Alice Walker." Newsmakers, Gale, 1999. Biography In Context, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1618002611/BIC?u=mountdesales&sid=BIC&xid=c7099447. Accessed 17 Dec. 2018.]]> 2018-12-17 18:46:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315299641 Biography Note #2: Family (paraphrase) cynthia_v20 https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300695 Daughter of poor sharecroppers, and her mother also had a part-time job as a maid. She is the youngest out of 8 kids
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"Alice Walker." Newsmakers, Gale, 1999. Biography In Context, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1618002611/BIC?u=mountdesales&sid=BIC&xid=c7099447. Accessed 17 Dec. 2018.]]> 2018-12-17 18:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300695 Biography Note #3: The Accident (paraphrase) cynthia_v20 https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300747 Walker was accidently shot in the eye with one of her brother's BB guns, which left her blind in that eye. She became withdrawn, afraid to look people in the eye because she disliked her appearance. That's when she began to become more observant about the world around her. She started to read more and write poems
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"Alice Walker." Newsmakers, Gale, 1999. Biography In Context, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1618002611/BIC?u=mountdesales&sid=BIC&xid=c7099447. Accessed 17 Dec. 2018.]]> 2018-12-17 18:49:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300747 Biography Note #4: New Girl (paraphrase) cynthia_v20 https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300793 At age 14, she got the scar tissue on her eye removed, which made her more confident and successful in life
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"Alice Walker." Newsmakers, Gale, 1999. Biography In Context, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1618002611/BIC?u=mountdesales&sid=BIC&xid=c7099447. Accessed 17 Dec. 2018.]]> 2018-12-17 18:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300793 Biography Note #5: Participating in Civil Rights (paraphrase) cynthia_v20 https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300818 While still in high school, Walker was aware of the civil rights struggle and Martin Luther King Jr. In college, she made acquaintance to members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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"Alice Walker." Newsmakers, Gale, 1999. Biography In Context, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1618002611/BIC?u=mountdesales&sid=BIC&xid=c7099447. Accessed 17 Dec. 2018.]]> 2018-12-17 18:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300818 Biography Note #6: The Abortion (paraphrase) cynthia_v20 https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300845 When Walker came back from a fellowship in Africa over the summer of 1964, she was pregnant. She found no luck trying to find someone to perform an abortion, and she considered committing suicide. Fortunately, her friend managed to get her an appointment
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"Alice Walker." Newsmakers, Gale, 1999. Biography In Context, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1618002611/BIC?u=mountdesales&sid=BIC&xid=c7099447. Accessed 17 Dec. 2018.]]> 2018-12-17 18:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300845 Biography Note #7: Work Life (quote) cynthia_v20 https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300861 "Walker returned to the South after college and worked as a voter register in Georgia and an instructor in black history in Mississippi."
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"Alice Walker." Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 43, Gale, 2004. Biography In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1606002728/BIC?u=mountdesales&sid=BIC&xid=5046d060. Accessed 17 Dec. 2018.]]> 2018-12-17 18:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300861 Biography Note #8: Love Life and Accomplishments (paraphrase) cynthia_v20 https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300916 In Mississippi, Walker met a young man named Melvyn Leventhal. Walker became an editor at Ms. Magazine and her essay "The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?" won a $300 prize in the American scholar essay contest. In 1967, Walker and Melvyn got married
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"Alice Walker." Authors and Artists for Young Adults, vol. 33, Gale, 2000. Biography In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1603000621/BIC?u=mountdesales&sid=BIC&xid=502aa033. Accessed 19 Dec. 2018.]]> 2018-12-17 18:49:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300916 Biography Note #9: Writings (paraphrase) cynthia_v20 https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300936 Her collection of poems labeled Once was published in 1968. An influence of hers were the works of Zora Neale Hurston. Used her inspiration to write her first book entitled "The Third Life of Grange Copeland", which stressed the idea of sexism in the black community
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"Alice Walker." Authors and Artists for Young Adults, vol. 33, Gale, 2000. Biography In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1603000621/BIC?u=mountdesales&sid=BIC&xid=502aa033. Accessed 19 Dec. 2018.]]> 2018-12-17 18:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300936 Biography Note #10: Later Life (paraphrase) cynthia_v20 https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300964 Walker divorced her husband and stayed in New York with her daughter. In 1977, she won a Guggenheim Fellowship and began to work on her big novel. She then moved to San Francisco and published another book called "Goodnight, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning." Walker continued to write stories talking about violence, rape, pornography, all from the perspective of a woman. She has been criticized for this, but feminists critics applaud her for it
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"Alice Walker." Authors and Artists for Young Adults, vol. 33, Gale, 2000. Biography In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1603000621/BIC?u=mountdesales&sid=BIC&xid=502aa033. Accessed 19 Dec. 2018. ]]> 2018-12-17 18:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/315300964 Personal Notes #1: The Color Purple Symbolism (paraphrase) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176201 The color purple symbolizes all the good things God creates for everyone to enjoy. In the beginning, Celie (the main character) has no sense of the color purple, due to her horrible life that's she just struggling to survive. Shug points out the meaning of the color purple to her, as she tells Celie that God does little things for everyone, like make the color purple, just to make people happy
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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

]]> 2019-01-28 22:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176201 Personal Notes #2: God Symbolism (paraphrase) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176240 The main character, Celie, writes letters to God about her life, almost as if talking to a friend. This appears to help her stay sane during her hard times. Celie sees God as a white man with a beard. With the help of Shug, Celie begins to realize that God has no gender/race
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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

]]> 2019-01-28 22:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176240 Personal Notes #3: Pants Symbolism (paraphrase) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176266 Pants are also a symbol in "The Color Purple." Celie never wore pants, since she once thought they were strictly men's clothing, but when she rids herself of Mr. ___, she begins to wear pants to show that she is no longer repressed by society and her horrible childhood. She also starts a successful business where she makes pants for both men and women, breaking gender stereotypes. Pants are a symbol of liberation and breaking from sexism
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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

]]> 2019-01-28 22:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176266 Personal Notes #4: POV (paraphrase) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176273 The entire book is written in letter form, not really divided into chapters. You can tell in Celie's letters than she is not well educated, since she writes with poor grammar and spelling. In a way, the book is written in first person point of view, both from Celie and Nettie's points of view
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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

]]> 2019-01-28 22:07:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176273 Personal Notes #5: Tone (paraphrase) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176342 The tone of the novel is sad and tragic, showing the hardships of a woman who's going through many traumatizing experiences, such as rape, having her children taken away from her, etc.
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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

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  • Celie - main character
  • Nettie - Celie's younger sister; loves Celie the most in the novel
  • Pa (Alphonso) - Celie and Nettie's stepdad; raped her multiple times
  • Mr. ____ (Albert) - Celie's husband; abuses her; hid Nettie's letters to Celie in his trunk; experiences good character development; Shug is his lover
  • Harpo - Mr.____'s oldest son; enjoys domestic activities (cooking, taking care of the house, etc.); reprimanded by his father and tells him that the domestic activities are for women only; married to Sofia
  • Sofia - Harpo's wife; an assertive and outspoken woman
  • Shug Avery - Celie's constant friend; reminds Celie of her mom; encourages Celie to become her own woman; Mr. ____'s lover
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    Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

    ]]>     2019-01-28 22:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176491     Personal Notes #7: Characters pt. 2 (list) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176500
  • Squeak (Mary Agnes) - when Sofia leaves Harpo, he begins a relationship with Mary Agnes; gains power after she gets raped 
  • Reverend Samuel - takes in Nettie after she escapes Pa and Mr. ____; after his wife passes away, he marries Nettie
  • Corrine - adoptive mother of Celie's children, Olivia and Adam; Reverend Samuel's wife; does not like Nettie because she believes her and Samuel are having an affair; after she dies from an illness, she allows the two to marry
  • Grady - Shug's husband; Celie thinks Grady is boring and not good enough for Shug
  • Tashi - befriends Olivia and Adam; eventually becomes Adam's wife
  • Olivia - Celie's daughter
  • Adam - Celie's son
  • Germaine - Shug's 19-year-old lover
  • Miss Millie - the mayor's wife of the town where Celie lives
  • Eleanor Jane - the mayor's daughter who Sofia raises
  • Kate - One of Mr. ____'s sisters
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    Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

    ]]>     2019-01-28 22:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176500     Personal Notes #8: Setting (summary) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176523 Takes place in rural Georgia in the early 20th Century
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    Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

    ]]>     2019-01-28 22:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176523     Personal Notes #9: Analysis (list) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176543 Conflict - Celie wanting to protect Nettie from Pa and Mr. ____; in an abusive home

    Complication - Mr. ____'s mistress moves in and Celie falls in love with her

    Climax - Celie learns that Mr. ____ has been hiding letters from Nettie for years
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    Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

    ]]>     2019-01-28 22:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176543     Personal Notes #10: Remarkable Quotes 1 (quotes) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176550 "She (Mama) got sicker an sicker. Finally she ast Where is it?
    I say God took it.
    He took it. He took it while I was sleeping. Kilt it out there in the woods. Kill this one too, if he can." (Letter 2)
    -Celie is talking about her father, as his godlike power and dominance over the household allows her to get him confused with God
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    Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

    ]]>     2019-01-28 22:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176550     Personal Notes #11: Remarkable Quotes 2 (quotes) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176577 "We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?" (Letter 61)
    -Nettie shows that her humble shelter with the roofleaf is godlike in a way, that God can be seen in any aspect of the world
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    Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

    ]]>     2019-01-28 22:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176577     Personal Notes #12: Remarkable Quotes 3 (quotes) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176702 "Everybody say how good I is to Mr.____ children. I be good to them. But I don’t feel nothing for them. Patting Harpo back not even like patting a dog. It more like patting another piece of wood. Not a living tree, but a table, a chifferobe. Anyhow, they don’t love me neither, no matter how good I is." (Letter 17)
    -Celie doesn't feel any love for anyone, as no one feels love for her. She is emotionally dead due to her horrible life
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    Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

    ]]>     2019-01-28 22:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176702     Personal Notes #13: Remarkable Quotes 4 (quotes) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176712 "She seem like a right sweet little thing, I say to Sofia.
    Who is? She frown.
    The little girl, I say. What they call her, Eleanor Jane?
    Yeah, say Sofia, with a real puzzle look on her face, I wonder why she was ever born.
    Well, I say, us don’t have to wonder that bout darkies." (Letter 43)
    -Celie and Sofia are so astonished that a white child can be nice, considering how much racism the two women were exposed to every day
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    Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

    ]]>     2019-01-28 22:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176712     Personal Notes #14: Remarkable Quotes 5 (quotes) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176719 "My heart broke.
    Shug love somebody else." (Letter 83)
    -Celie, having first experienced love, is heartbroken that Shug loves somebody else
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    Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

    ]]>     2019-01-28 22:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176719     Personal Notes #15: Themes (list) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176730
  • Race
  • Religion
  • Violence
  • Love
  • Family
  • Femininity
  • Sexuality
  • Identity
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    Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

    ]]>     2019-01-28 22:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/325176730     Critical Essay Notecard #1: Gender Violence (paraphrase) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335721652 The Color Purple uses a great deal of gender roles/stereotypes to describe how black women live dangerous lives due to their gender and color, as Tahir calls “gender violence.”
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    “Gender violence in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” Journal of Language and Literature Education, no. 11, 2014, p. 1+. Literature Resource Center,
    https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A394999607/LitRC?u=mountdesales&sid=LitRC&xid=7e95aecb. Accessed 31 Jan. 2019.

    ]]>     2019-02-27 02:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335721652     Critical Essay Notecard #2: Celie's Character Development (quote) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335722460 "Celie goes through a notable personal change. She developed gradually from being miserable, passive and abused by her husband to manage her own business, possessing her own house and feels satisfactory. Despite all of the various misery of her life, Celie is able to liberate herself from the plights of patriarchy."
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    “Gender violence in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” Journal of Language and Literature Education, no. 11, 2014, p. 1+. Literature Resource Center,
    https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A394999607/LitRC?u=mountdesales&sid=LitRC&xid=7e95aecb. Accessed 31 Jan. 2019.]]>     2019-02-27 02:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335722460     Critical Essay Notecard #3: Celie's Vow of Silence (paraphrase) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335723088 Celie is raped, beaten, and belittled by her stepfather and husband. She was told by her stepfather to “shut up and git used to it”, and Celie went through with it and fully accepted it as a part of her life, forced into silence by her stepfather and her husband.
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    “Gender violence in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” Journal of Language and Literature Education, no. 11, 2014, p. 1+. Literature Resource Center,
    https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A394999607/LitRC?u=mountdesales&sid=LitRC&xid=7e95aecb. Accessed 31 Jan. 2019.]]>     2019-02-27 02:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335723088     Critical Essay Notecard #4: The Effect of Shug Avery's Presence on Celie (quote) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335723526 "Celie detaches herself from her identity because of her intolerable circumstances. Shug's arrival marks Celie's first opportunity to look, both literally and figuratively, at herself. Just as the living Shug replaces the photograph that Celie carries, Shug's mirroring helps Celie to replace the void left in her by her troublesome past."
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    “‘Looking at the Back of Your Head’: Mirroring Scenes in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Possessing the Secret of Joy.” MELUS, vol. 23, no. 4, 1998, p. 47. Literature Resource Center,
    https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A55909801/LitRC?u=mountdesales&sid=LitRC&xid=40710465. Accessed 31 Jan. 2019. 

    ]]>     2019-02-27 02:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335723526     Critical Essay Notecard #5: Celie's Sense of Identity (paraphrase) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335724065 Celie suffers through rape and psychological torture that affects her so badly that she has no sense of her own identity. Celie views her body as a possession, only used to please others.
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    “‘Looking at the Back of Your Head’: Mirroring Scenes in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Possessing the Secret of Joy.” MELUS, vol. 23, no. 4, 1998, p. 47. Literature Resource Center,
    https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A55909801/LitRC?u=mountdesales&sid=LitRC&xid=40710465. Accessed 31 Jan. 2019. ]]>     2019-02-27 02:40:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335724065     Critical Essay Notecard #6: Celie on Her Own (quote) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335724537 "Shug runs off on a "fling" with a nineteen-year-old blues musician, leaving Celie on her own. At this point in the novel Celie is able to recognize and appreciate her self without Shug's help. Standing before a full length mirror, Celie decides that there is "Nothing special here for nobody to love," and yet her new sense of self does not deteriorate."
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    “‘Looking at the Back of Your Head’: Mirroring Scenes in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Possessing the Secret of Joy.” MELUS, vol. 23, no. 4, 1998, p. 47. Literature Resource Center,
    https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A55909801/LitRC?u=mountdesales&sid=LitRC&xid=40710465. Accessed 31 Jan. 2019. ]]>     2019-02-27 02:42:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335724537     Critical Essay Notecard #7: Soul Murder (quote) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335724834 “Soul, or psychic, murder involves trauma imposed from the world outside the mind that is so overwhelming that the mental apparatus is flooded with feeling. The same overstimulated state can result as a reaction to great deprivation. The terrifying too-muchness requires massive and mind-distorting defensive operations for the child to continue to think and feel and live. The child's sense of identity (that is, the emotional maintenance of the mental images of his or her self) is threatened.”
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    “Celie’s Search for Identity: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Reading of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 167, Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center,
    https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1100045999/LitRC?u=mountdesales&sid=LitRC&xid=6e92258b. Accessed 31 Jan. 2019. Originally publish in Contemporary Literature, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 1991, pp. 12-37.]]>     2019-02-27 02:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335724834     Critical Essay Notecard #8: Celie Compared to a Robot (paraphrase) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335725179 As a result of her traumatic childhood, Celie lives like an unfunctional machine, unwillingly taking orders and being used as nothing but a toy designed for men's pleasure, until she learns to act and think for herself.
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    “Celie’s Search for Identity: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Reading of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 167, Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center,
    https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1100045999/LitRC?u=mountdesales&sid=LitRC&xid=6e92258b. Accessed 31 Jan. 2019. Originally publish in Contemporary Literature, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 1991, pp. 12-37.]]>     2019-02-27 02:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335725179     Critical Essay Notecard #9: Celie's Bonding (quote) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335725680 "This "female bonding," which occurs over an extended period of time, enables Celie--a depressed survivor-victim of parent loss, emotional and physical neglect, rape, incest, trauma, and spousal abuse--to resume her arrested development and continue developmental processes that were thwarted in infancy and early adolescence. . .Celie is enabled to get in touch with her feelings, work through old traumas, and achieve an emotional maturity and a firm sense of identity that is psychologically convincing."
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    “Celie’s Search for Identity: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Reading of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 167, Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center,
    https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1100045999/LitRC?u=mountdesales&sid=LitRC&xid=6e92258b. Accessed 31 Jan. 2019. Originally publish in Contemporary Literature, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 1991, pp. 12-37.]]>     2019-02-27 02:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335725680     Critical Essay Notecard #10: The Losses of Celie (quote) https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335725987 "Thus, in a single evening, the two-year-old Celie experiences several catastrophic losses: (1) the death of a loving father; (2) the emotional loss of a loving mother (at first through a psychotic episode and later through sickness and depression); (3) the loss of a safe and nurturing family environment; and (4) the loss of her place as an only child. During the next several months, Celie and her newborn baby sister Nettie experience hunger, neglect, and other deprivations."
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    “Celie’s Search for Identity: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Reading of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 167, Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center,
    https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1100045999/LitRC?u=mountdesales&sid=LitRC&xid=6e92258b. Accessed 31 Jan. 2019. Originally publish in Contemporary Literature, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 1991, pp. 12-37.]]>     2019-02-27 02:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cynthia_v20/96bmasu5v5ao/wish/335725987