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Alexis Fowler Fall 2013 English 121 803

Alexis Fowler Fall 2013 English 121 803. Presentation: The Color Purple by Alice Walker Beloved by Toni Morrison. The Color Purple by Alice Walker. This story takes place mostly in rural Georgia. It focuses mainly on the life of colored woman in the southern United States in the 1930s

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Alexis Fowler Fall 2013 English 121 803

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  1. Alexis FowlerFall 2013 English 121 803 Presentation: The Color Purple by Alice Walker Beloved by Toni Morrison

  2. The Color Purple by Alice Walker • This story takes place mostly in rural Georgia. It focuses mainly on the life of colored woman in the southern United States in the 1930s • This story address many issues including woman of colors exceedingly low position in American social culture.

  3. Theme • The Strength of Voice • In this story the reader can sense the powerful nature of the narrators voice. The ability to express thoughts in literature has developed so drastically. • Racism • Racism has been an ongoing issue for century's. In this novel the women revolt against the men who are abusing them to break the vicious cycles of sexism, racism, and violence.

  4. Belovedby Toni Morrison • This story begins in 1873 in Cincinnatian, Ohio where a former slave has been living with her eighteen-year-old daughter. • Beloved’s main character, Sethe, kills her daughter and tries to kill off her three other children. Then a posses arrives to retrieve the children and return them back to the Kentucky plantation from which Sethe fled from. A woman presumed to be her daughter, Beloved, returns years later to haunt Sethe’s home.

  5. Theme • The Strength of Language • The way different words are used in this novel are very powerful. The ways that the white folk speak and use words differ from the way the colored folk choose to use their words. The slaves adjusted their language and there meanings to not be understood by the white salve owners.

  6. Comparison • Both of these themes from, The Color Purple and Beloved, share a common ground. The power of language and how it is used can really have an effect. This ties into the progression of literature and how it is always changing. Language and voice can be interpreted different ways depending on the person or reader.

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