LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Betrayal by the educational system.
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Betrayal by her sister.
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Betrayal by her community.
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Betrayal by a family member.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alice Walker: It actually could be any color you don’t notice-anything! Anything could be the color purple. It’s a symbol. It speaks to our blindness about the wonder of this place.
Detailed explanation-2: -Purple colour is a symbol of life, creativity and individual thinking. Celie has her room painted purple and red. Purple symbolises royalty and piety. It is a combination of the wisdom of blue and the love of red.
Detailed explanation-3: -The title of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel The Color Purple references the transformation of the book’s main character, Celie. The entire book is structured around a series of letters that Celie initially writes to God and then later to her sister, Nettie. The reference to “purple” represents her spiritual transformation.
Detailed explanation-4: -One of the major themes in The Color Purple is the oppression of African-American women by African-American men and the racial discrimination of them by the society. Oppression can be defined as the “unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power” (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oppression).