https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo en-us 2020-05-07 13:38:21 UTC 2026-01-13 19:43:47 UTC hello@padlet.com clarosm13 https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574352309 Title : The color purple
Author : Alice Walker
Year : 1982
Genre : epistolary novel, confessional novel.]]> 2020-05-15 07:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574352309 clarosm13 https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574358307 Alice Walker (1944 -      )
At the age of 8, she was shot in the eye while playing with two of her brothers. 
Later, she became an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. 
She and her jewish husband became the first legally married interracial couple to live in Mississippi.
The color purple was her third novel, she won the Pulitzer prize for it in 1983. And in 1985, Steven Spielberg directed the adaptation to the big screen.
She wrote novels, essays, stories and poems about african american, racism, sexism and violence. ]]> 2020-05-15 07:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574358307 clarosm13 https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574404379 An epistolary novel is a narrative told through letters, journals, interviews and ephemera.
One of the first novel of this genre is Love letters by a Nobleman and his sister by Aphra Behn in the 17th century. 
Letters are used to express feelings, they are more personal.
Moreover, letters can be really useful for the narrative because people can intercept letters, read them, imitate people ...]]> 2020-05-15 07:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574404379 clarosm13 https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574477451 The narrator is Celie, she speaks in the first person through the letters. But later, there are also letters written by Nettie (Celie's younger sister), but there are read by Celie.]]> 2020-05-15 08:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574477451 clarosm13 https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574493693 Celie : she is the narrator and the protagonist of the story. She is a poor and uneducated black woman. She has faced rapes from her stepfather, and violence from her husband Mr.
Nettie : Celie's younger sister. She was supposed to marry Mr. but Celie took her place. 
Mr. : Celie's husband. He abused her for years.
Shug Avery : She is a singer and Mr. 's mistress.
Harpo : Mr. 's eldest son. ]]> 2020-05-15 08:24:47 UTC https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574493693 clarosm13 https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574596349 Celie was a poor and uneducated fourteen-year-old black woman, living in Georgia in the early 1900's. She started writing letters to God because her stepfather beated and raped her after Celie's mother became ill. 
She gave birth to two children (who are from Alphonso, her stepfather) and Alphonso killed the first one and maybe gave the other one to a family. 
Then, Celie and Nettie learnt that a man wanted to marry Nettie and he had a mistress, Shug Avery, who kind of fascinates Celie. Alphonso refused to let Nettie to Mr. and offered Celie. But she was going to be abused by her husband for years. But Shug Avery was going to help her to be strong and independant. 
The color purple is about the fact that we have to keep fighting and stay strong. ]]> 2020-05-15 09:17:07 UTC https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574596349 clarosm13 https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574665379 Racism, sexism, the power of narrative and strong voice.]]> 2020-05-15 09:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574665379 clarosm13 https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574723473 In the book, Celie doesn't have her own voice so she used letters to find it. She expressed herself and even confessed her feelings like pain, love, and faith. Which led to her spiritual development and her independance, it is only because she decided to write.
Letters are also about the power of communication, it helped her finding a confident who was God because she had no one to talk to.  
Letters, like a diary, can be used to express feelings for different situations to understand them better. Writing can also be a kind of therapy.
Alice Walker wrote in a realistic writing style and this is why Celie has a poor grammar and spelling because she is uneducated. It shows the reality of society at that time. But by learning using language Celie could used it as a weapon. ]]> 2020-05-15 10:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574723473 clarosm13 https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574820447 To be honest, I don't know how to feel about this book. First, it wasn't what I had expected. And I really didn't like the writing style, it is not that it was complicated to understand. It is just that I don't usually read books which are written the way The color purple is. 
It wasn't written to be beautiful, just the reality.
But I really like the topics which are tough but really important. I think books can educate people, so this one can teach us life of these women in the early 1900's. ]]> 2020-05-15 11:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/574820447 astridmunari https://padlet.com/clarosm13/u2ep7qi69x11m4oo/wish/602294467 You did a great job! This book was not the easiest but you managed to understand the author's aim quite well. Well done!
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