Beloved & The Color Purple

1. Beloved & The Color Purple By: AirikaBingle

2. Beloved Background • Author: Toni Morrison • Set in a post Civil War time period • Inspired by a true story • Margaret Garner • A slave killed her own daughter to prevent her from living a captured life

3. Toni Morrison • African-American • She came from a working class family • Had many of sibling • Family passed down folktales • Inspired many of her works • Her novel concentrate on Black women • She does not consider herself to be a feminist • Critics says she fits in “postmodern feminism”

4. The Color Purple Background • Author: Alice Walker • Written in 1982 • Novel takes place in the 1930 • Concentrates on the life of African-American Women

5. Alice Walker • Came from a big African-American family with low income • Her family had a tradition of orally passing down stories • Walker began writing to share her secrets • Took part in the Civil Rights Movement • Often wrote about sexism and racism

6. Theme Comparison The Color Purple Beloved • Violence/Slavery • Sethe Tries to Escape a life of slavery • Killed her own child to protect her • She in a sense becomes a slave to Beloved • Tries making up for lost time • She wants to please her • She refuses to run away from the haunting • Violence/Slavery • Celie was abused her whole life • Became a Slave to Mr. ___ • She does whatever he asks • Forced into sex • She cooks, cleans, and takes care of his misbehaved children • She is never truly happy until the ending

7. Conclusion • Based on the Background knowledge, the context of the stories, and the author’s lives: • They have similar views • Their beliefs were similar • They wrote about similar subject matter • The Stories, even though they were different, had similar themes

8. Hacking • I feel as though the Author’s hacked in order to prove a point of the struggles these women faced during their time period, and their race • I hacked these novels to gain knowledge and find the convergence of these two seemingly different perspective

9. Class Readings/ Week 6 & 7 • War was a topic • These two novels can relate to war • Literally • They are set in a time period after the civil war was fought • There are still signs of obvious and radical racism • Figuratively • Celie: is in a war with herself • She is never truly happy until she makes changes within herself • Sethe • Fighting with the choices she made (killing her own child)