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The Color Purple (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Alice Walker
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Three powerful novels by Alice Walker, beginning with her masterpiece The Color Purple, and following characters as they are drawn into critical confrontations with history The Color Purple is Walker's stunning, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of courage in the face of oppression. Celie grows up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she's badly treated by her family....
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker, which tells the story of Celie, a poor, uneducated African-American woman living in the rural Georgia in the first half of the 20th century. After being abused by the man she calls her father, married against her will to a man she does not love and forcibly separated from her beloved sister Nettie, Celie begins to despair of her condition. However, thanks in large part...
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A Study Guide (New Edition) for Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Alice Walker. Titles in this study guide include The Color Purple, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, The Third Life of Grange, Revolutionary Petunias, Once, Meridian, and In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women, Good Night Willie Lee, and I'll See You in the Morning.
As a world renowned, author of African American literature, Walker established...
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Gültan Kışanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected co-mayor of Diyarbakır in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state arrested and imprisoned her. Her story is remarkable, but not unique. While behind bars, she wrote about her own experiences and collected similar accounts from other Kurdish women, all co-chairs, co-mayors and MPs in Turkey; all incarcerated on political grounds.
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics is a one-of-a-kind...
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Learn about the author of The Color Purple, Alice Worker
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Early readers are introduced to the color purple. Simple sentences accompany engaging pictures.
14) Purple
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Early readers are introduced to the color purple. Simple sentences accompany engaging pictures.
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Early readers are introduced to the color purple. Simple sentences accompany engaging pictures.
17) I See Purple
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Discover Colors Level B Reader: I See Purple Beginning readers identify things that are the color purple in this very simple 20-page reader. Sample Text: I see a butterfly. The butterfly is purple. This book is a step-up from the paired book in the Discover Colors series, PURPLE.
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Discover Colors Level A Reader: PURPLE Beginning readers identify things that are the color purple in this very simple 12-page reader. Sample Text: The flag is purple. This book is the first step for beginning readers in the Discover Colors series and can be paired with the Level B text, I SEE PURPLE.
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A long while ago, I heard of an old Japanese tradition which associates the color purple with the seventies, and endorses it as appropriate for wearing by people in that venerable age group. Then, when I turned seventy, I joined the Red Hat Society, founded in the USA in 1997 as 'the place, where there is fun over fifty'. This society takes for its motto, so to speak, a poem called 'Warning', by the UK poet Jenny Joseph (1932—). The first verse...
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Grapes, plums, jams...some tasty things are the color purple. Readers of this bright volume will discover this fun fact as well as see varying shades of color in common objects from their lives as they turn each page. Recognizable items and comprehensible text make this book a valuable tool for improving reading comprehension and reviewing color concepts.
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