"The Color Purple" novel and movie are different in many ways. While the movie is detailed it lacks some important events that can be used to help better understand the concept of the movie as a whole. In the book Celie writes that she of raped, but the movie shows Celie and Nettie playing in a field. We also don't see when Celie's mother dies like it is described in the book. The movie also had no mention it even a hint that Nettie had a boy friend while the book does. We also do not get to see squeak being raped like it is described in the book. The intimacy between Shug Avery and Celie is also not really shown in great detail in the movie.
The movie and novel are just as alike as they are different. They both show the life of Celie from the time she was 14. They also both show the birth of Celie's children and the separating of them. They show the struggle of Celie raising kids that were not get own. They showed the breaking down of Sofia and her spending time with her children. They show Nettie and Celie's children reuniting once again. They show how Celie grows into herself and becomes more of a woman. They also sheep l show off Shug's new husband.
In my overall review of the novel I feel that everyone should read this book especially if they have seen the movie. The book helps you understand the movie better because it gives you more detail about the things that are happening. It also explains some of the things that the movie will leave you questioning. The message that the book also gives you I'd very important. It teaches you that with tone you can change and become a better version of yourself.
Sunday, April 29, 2018
Comparing the color purple Novel to the movie and overall review
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Chapter 7 study guide questions
The literary device that is used when the vet tells the narrator to get out of the fog is allusion. He is telling the narrator to keep his eyed open and to stop looking over everything that is happening around him and pay attention to how he can manipulate the situation without really saying it that way.
When the vet tells the narrator to be his own father he means that he will have to look after his self while he I away from home all alone. He will have to make smart decisions without the advice of others. He will have to be careful about the things that he does and says and make decisions that can have a huge effect on his life and the turn of his life events.
The author uses Biblical allusion to describe the narrator's arrival in harlem. He compares the narrators experience to an experience in the bible.
Themes of Invisible Man
Some of the themes in The Invisible Man was Racism, playing pretend and doing whatever it takes to make it.
Racism was shown when The Vet said, "They? Why, the same they we always mean, the white folks, authority, the gods, fate, circumstances, the force that pulls your strings until you refuse to be pulled any more. The big man who's never there, where you think he is." He was referring to "white men or people" that thought they had complete control of every aspect of African American lives.
Playing pretend was shown when the Vet told narrator to "Come out of the
fog, young man. And remember you don't have to be a complete fool in order to succeed. Play the game, but don't believe in it that much you owe yourself. Even if it lands you in a strait jacket or a padded cell. Play the game, but play it your own way, part of the time at least. Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy." Saying to him that he had to play the game that the he was supposed to play in order to get the success that he wanted to have.
The presence of doing what ever it takes to make it is visible when the narrator decided to leave the south and go up North in order get what he needed to ultimately reach a goal that he had sit for his future.
Connections:
Racism can be connected to the poem "I, Too" because the are both based on events that have taken place around the same time. When Langston Hughes says, " they send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes." Is the same as when The Narrator says that the back of the buss was reserved for "Them" as in the Black's. This in both cases are racist because they are being treated without equity.
Playing pretend can be connected to the poem Refugee in America when it is written that, "when the words like Liberty that almost make me cry. If you had known what I knew you would know why." He is saying that unless you have what he has then you would know why having freedom and liberty are important. That the Liberty and Freedom that others have are disguised as something else for them that they don't get the same freedoms and have the same opportunities that "whites" have.
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Geoffrey Chaucer
While reading about Geoffrey Chaucer I learned that he was considered to have changed the English Literature with his book The Canterbury Tales. He is also commonly referred to The Father of literature. During his time he investigated the contrast between authority and experience. The theological faith versus human reaaon, the ideal versus the pragmatic, the ritual of courtly love, the action of the individual, the Christian teaching of free will versus man's sense of being fated. He is also known for the famous opening lines of The General Prologue. The implications made by Chaucers arrangment of the tales thematic groups. The way he can provide another dimension or way of thinking in his stories. I think what made him a great writer was his belief or view of the microcosm balances the dynamic and the static made. And the wide range of individual feeling and belief within unchanging human nature.
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Introduction
Hi, my name is Alexzandria Fleming I am 17 years old and attending Mr.Reases AP literature and composition class. This year I will be graduating with the c/o 2018. I like cheer, cross country, and track. On my spare time I like listening to music and singing. By the end of this school year I intend on accomplishing my goal of becoming a better writter. I also hope to become a better person with the guidance of Mr. Rease.
Monday, February 13, 2017
Lesson before dying advice letter
Sunday, February 5, 2017
A Lesson Before Dying Ch. 3-4/ Quotation assignment
What does the back door of a Henri Pichots plantation house symbolize to Grant and his aunt? Why does having to enter the plantation house through the back door rankle Grant?
1. The back for Grant and his aunt symbolizes their past when they were working for Mr. Pichot. It also symbolizes their one way in and out the house because they were of color. It also seems to hold a reminder for Grant and his aunt that they were servers of the white man and had to as they were told as long as they were under the shadow of Mr. Pichot.
In describing Bayonne, the narrator mentions that the towns major industries include, "a slaughterhouse, mostly for hogs". How does this echo and expand on the public defenders summation in jeffersons trial in chapter 1?
1. When the narrator is describing the Bayonne and mentions one of the towns major industries which happens to be a slaughterhouse mainly for hog it echos back to the summation in jeffersons trial n chapter 1 simply because of the fact Jefferson was compared to a hog during his trial. Hogs can be very dangerous and aggressive which would lead the jury to feel as if Jefferson is a threat to there town. Jefferson was also sentenced for to death by electrocution. This can also help us come to the conclusion that Jeffersons lawyer wanted him to lose his case seeing as he compared Jefferson to a wild and aggressive animal.
This quotation also relates to the theme of decision making. In today's society we always seem to ask ourselves this question, " am I supposed to go in there too?". If Jeffery would have stopped and asked himself that question before hand he probably would not have ended up in the situation he was currently in.