https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport Justin, Johan, Bryssa, Sam en-us 2019-01-25 17:08:11 UTC 2019-01-25 18:15:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/351253398/1d5e707edb1041e8b4d0fcb864c87ff2/African_American_Woman_Silhouette.png 210675 https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324421238 https://www.google.com/search?q=l&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS833US833&oq=l&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5863j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://www.google.com/search?q=l&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS833US833&oq=l&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5863j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://www.google.com/search?q=l&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS833US833&oq=l&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5863j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://www.google.com/search?q=l&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS833US833&oq=l&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5863j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://www.google.com/search?q=l&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS833US833&oq=l&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5863j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://www.google.com/search?q=l&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS833US833&oq=l&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5863j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://www.google.com/search?q=l&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS833US833&oq=l&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5863j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://www.google.com/search?q=l&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS833US833&oq=l&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5863j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://www.google.com/search?q=l&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS833US833&oq=l&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5863j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://www.google.com/search?q=l&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS833US833&oq=l&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5863j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://www.google.com/search?q=l&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS833US833&oq=l&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5863j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://www.google.com/search?q=l&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS833US833&oq=l&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5863j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://www.google.com/search?q=l&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS833US833&oq=l&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.5863j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8]]> 2019-01-25 17:33:20 UTC https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324421238 2103762 https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324424903 Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eaton, Georgia. She is currently 74 years old and she was an woman activist. She was married to Melvyn R. Leventhal. He is a Jewish civil rights lawyer. They had one daughter named Rebecca in 1969. Her faith and her being discriminated by whites gave her motivation to her write some of her novels such as her best seller “The Color Purple”.]]> 2019-01-25 17:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324424903 214835 https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324426858  

• Mama - The narrator of the story. Mama has a strong understanding of her heritage and she is a loving mother who is also poor and uneducated
• Maggie - The shy, retiring daughter who lives with Mama.  She is good-hearted, kind, and dutiful.
• Dee - Mama’s older daughter, who has renamed herself Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo. Dee is educated, worldly, and deeply determined, not generally allowing her desires to be thwarted.
• Hakim-A-Barber - Dee’s boyfriend or husband, he is a Black Muslim whom Mama humorously refers to as Asalamalakim

]]> 2019-01-25 17:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324426858 2103762 https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324428538  Published: 1973 (as part of In Love and Trouble) The story was published inside a book full of short stories or “Love and Trouble”.
Historical Info. : ]]> 2019-01-25 17:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324428538 214835 https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324431004  The Point of View is 1st person Mama is the narrator not only is she narrating the whole thing she's also a central character. ]]> 2019-01-25 17:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324431004 2103762 https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324435429 2019-01-25 18:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324435429 214835 https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324437971 The central theme of the story concerns the way in which an individual understands his present life in relation to the traditions of his people and culture. ]]> 2019-01-25 18:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324437971 210675 https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324439640 She wrote the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ]]> 2019-01-25 18:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/210675/bookreport/wish/324439640