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The Color Purple: LitPlan Teacher Pack
66,600 words, approx. 222 pages
 A complete lesson plan by Teacher's Pet. For Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.
The Color Purple: Puzzle Pack
43,200 words, approx. 144 pages
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| Name: |
Alice Malsenior Walker | | Birth Date: |
February 9, 1944 | | Place of Birth: |
Eatonton, Georgia, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Ethnicity: |
African American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
novelist |
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 Biography of Alice Malsenior Walker
1316 words, approx. 4.4 pages
 Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Alice Walker (born 1944) was best known for her stories about black women who achieve heroic stature within the confines of their ordinary day-to-day lives. Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia,... summary from source:
 Biography of Alice (Malsenior) Walker
13406 words, approx. 44.7 pages
 [This entry was updated by Donna Haisty Winchell (Clemson University) from her entry in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 277-292.] Alice Walker knows firsthand the social and political consequences of being a black woman... summary from source:
 Biography of Alice Walker
10102 words, approx. 33.7 pages
Walker was born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, about seventy-five miles southeast of Atlanta. She was the youngest of eight children, five boys and three girls, all of whom lived in a three-or four-room house in the country. Her father, Willie Le...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - 1982 Summary
8,789 words, approx. 29 pagesThe Color Purple - Alice Walker - 1982 Introduction Although she is an accomplished writer of novels, short stories, essays, and poems, Alice Walker is best known for her award-winning novel The Color Purple. It is a story of physical and spiritual... summary from source:
 The Color Purple Summary
3,988 words, approx. 13 pagesThe Color Purple by Alice Walker Born in 1944, novelist and poet Alice Walker grew up in the rural South, which provides the setting for much of her fiction. Active as a student in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, she began publishing novels in... summary from source:
 The Color Purple Information
1,518 words, approx. 5 pages
The Color Purple is an acclaimed 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker. It received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name. Taking place mostly in...
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 The Village Voice The Color Purple
12/07/2005: 946 words, approx. 3 pages THE COLOR PURPLE By Marsha Norman Songs by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray Broadway Theatre 1681 Broadway 212-239-6200 PROSAICALLY 'PURPLE' Competence, not inspiration, drives a new Broadway musical version of The Color Purple Sincerity... summary from source:
National Review The color purple.
02/14/1986: 1,459 words, approx. 5 pages The Color Purple WHAT IS AN insuperable problem for a filmmaker who specializes in gadgets, sentimentalized children, and cute creatures from outer space? Adults --anything at all to do with grownups living their quotidian lives. To be sure, this is a problem... summary from source:
 Vibe.com The Color Purple On Broadway
12/6/2005: 336 words, approx. 1 pagesThe tale of an emotional and sexually abused little girl in a Black community in the last century, Purple doesn't come close to delivering the resounding drama as the film adaptation 20 years ago. In fact, the passion and sentiment conveyed by the characters in... summary from source:
AP News `Purple' role for Destiny's Williams
2/28/2007: 295 words, approx. 1 pagesMichelle Williams of the R&B group Destiny's Child is joining the Chicago production of "The Color Purple," the producers announced Tuesday.Williams will play the role of Shug Avery, a sexy blues singer.The stage version of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel will open in Chicago on...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Charles L. Proudfit
11,502 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Proudfit refutes the critical opinion that Celie's emotional development and actions in The Color Purple are unlikely literary contrivances, and uses psychoanalytic theory to argue that Celie's personal growth is realistically constructed, given her horrific childhood and adolescence.
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Critical Essay by Steven C. Weisenburger
9,858 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Weisenburger examines the temporal inconsistencies in The Color Purple, noting the popular and critical reception of the novel's errors and themes.
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Critical Essay by Linda Selzer
9,599 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Selzer discusses Walker's confrontation of race relations and class distinctions through the underlying text in The Color Purple.
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 96%Female Empowerment in "The Color Purple"
2,126 words, approx. 7 pages
The gender and racial discrimination against black women in the post-World War I South is examined in the Alice Walker novel "The Color Purple. The main character, Celie, comes to realize the injustices her race and gender have experienced as you lives her life. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 86%Symbolism in the Color Purple by Alice Walker
2,027 words, approx. 7 pages
The symbolism of names, occupations, power, pants, cloth, words, eyes, frogs, starts, shell, stamps, as well as love, power, mutual understanding, authority over another person's life, and God in the story "Color Purple" by Alice Walker
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