The Color Purple REMIXED

Mind Map: The Color Purple

Literature Analysis: The Color Purple

The Color Purple by Alice Walker
 
1.) Briefly summarize the plot of the novel you read.
 In the novel, a black woman named Celie tells her life story consisting of: rape, abuse, submissiveness, weakness/strength, etc. Since she was a younger girl Celie had been sexually abused by her step-father whom she believed was her biological father. She gave birth to two children which were stolen by her Alphonso(step-father) and sold to two missionaries Corrine and Samuel. Celie was then given to marry to Mr._____ whom continues with the beatings such as his son attempted with his wife Sophia (but Sophia was physically stronger and didn't allow it). Mr.____ falls in  love with Shug as does Celie, who gets Shug to live with them as "protection" from Mr._____'s abuse. Shug is a free soul who enjoys the company of younger men so on numerous accounts breaks both of their hearts. Shug and Celie have a secret intimate relationship, and Shug is able to solve the mystery of Nettie's (Celie's sister) disappearance which eventually reunites them. In the end, Alphonso dies, Celie is reunited with her sister and children, and Shug finds a new partner.

2.) Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid cliches.
 The theme of the novel is standing up for what you believe in.

3.)Describe the author's tone.  Include three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).

 The author's tone was serious and overpowering, such as the characters which were not willing to stand down at others' demands.

• When Sophia stands up for herself from the mayor and his wife she demonstrates her own self -power that she feels. After being asked by the mayor's wife if she will work as their maid, Sophia answers with a s defiant "Hell No," encouraging her overpowering ways against commands.
• In the first letter that Celie writes she sets a serious tone, explaining about how she was raped by her step-father. She describes everything that occurred to her, giving the reader a more serious mood/tone. 
• When Squeak tries to free Sophia from prison and is contrarily raped by one of the warden's  the tone is both serious and overpowering. The warden overpowers defenseless Squeak and rapes her setting a seriousness to the words from Celie.

4.) Describe five literary elements/techniques you observed that strengthened your understanding of the theme and/or your sense of the tone.  Include three excerpts that will help your reader understand each one. 

• Diction: The words that were used by the characters set a time period and helped me, as the reader, understand the racial tension and submission. "Soon he stop. He say one night in bed, Well, us done help Nettie all we can. Now she got to go."
• Syntax: The way that Celie spoke described what kind of background she came from giving the literary work more understanding of the content. 
• Symbolism: The quilts that  the woman of the novel make, represent the power that women have when they are brought to other women as a union. When they are set together they are able to overcome many fears and obstacles.
• Imagery: In the novel, Celie experiences many hardships which she vividly describes in her letters. Such was the case of her rape, "First he put his thing up against my hip and sort of wiggle it around. Then he grab hold my titties. Then he push his thing inside my pussy."
• Indirect Characterization: Sophia's action were a great example of what a strong, determined woman she was. She defended herself and didn't let the men run her over with their actions and words.

Notes:

• The internet helps us understand the world as a whole, helping us view others' characteristics.
• To change the world: starts with asking questions
• wisdom-technology-opportuinties combine
• Listening and speaking helps drop some knowledge

The Key Concepts of  "The Serious Need for Play"
1. Social, cognitive, and emotional development are influenced by a kid's playtime as a child.
2. Imaginative and rambunctious (free Play) is the most essential type.
3. If they do not play as kids, they may grow to be anxious and/or maladjusted adults.

-The murderers had 2 common things:  were from abusive families and didn't play as kids
-Creativity challenges the brain more than being a part of a structured game.
-Learn to be friendly and share in order to keep their playmates
-Lack of play= Social Impediment
-Play promotes neural development
-Relieves stress and builds social Skills
-Makes kids smarter

-When you create a question you think back and make connections to many other possibilities. The horizon is so broad that one question may need to the next and help  you learn many new things along the way.

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 Sonnet 89: by Pablo Neruda
When I die, I wish your hands upon my eyes:
I want the light and the wheat of your beloved hands
to pass once more their cool touch over me:
to sense the softness that changed my fate.

I want you to live while I, asleep, await you.
I want your ears to go on hearing the wind.
I want you to smell the sea's aroma we loved so together,
and to go on walking the sands we walked.

I want what I love to go on living.
And you, whom I loved and sung above all else,
for all that, flourish again, my flower,

to reach for everything my love demands of you,
so that my shadow is passed through your hair,
so that all can know the reason for my song.

1. Dramatic Situation:

• A man who is deeply in love; in his thoughts about death and what he wants after death takes him.

2.  Structure:

• blank verse, four lines in the first two stanzas and three lines in the last two stanzas.

3. Theme:

• The desire of wanting something better for someone else than you wish upon yourself; true love.  

4. Grammar and Meaning:

• The man in speaking in the poem lists out his desires for the woman he loves. She is what he looks forward to for all of eternity (even after death).  

5. Images and Figures of Speech:

• He speaks of the softness of the woman that he so much longs to have pierce his body again.
• Metaphor: "my flower" he has completely pictured the woman of his dreams as perfect as a flower.

6. Important Words:

• All of his diction was understandable however two of his more influential words were: flourish and aroma; adding to the imagery as well as developing his theme.

7. Tone:

• Peaceful, melancholic 

 8.Literary Devices/Techniques:

• Metaphor
• Anaphora (I want..)

9. Prosody:

• The writing style had a relaxed tone which had no rhyme to the poem. It was more of a way to free ideas/thoughts that had been harvested in their minds.

She Walks in Beauty: by Lord Byron
 

She walks in beauty, like the night

   Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that’s best of dark and bright

   Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

Thus mellowed to that tender light

   Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

   Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

   Or softly lightens o’er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express,

   How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,

   So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

   But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

   A heart whose love is innocent!

 

1. Dramatic Situation: 

• A man who is blinded by innocent love; England

2. Structure:

• Rhymed Stanza, alliteration

3. Theme:

• Love can cause a man to go blind especially if the innocent loved one is so sweet and pure.

4. Grammar and Meaning:

• Uses many descriptions to make the image of the woman and separates his thoughts using commas.
• He is basically building the character of the beautiful woman through descriptive words.

5. Images and Figures of Speech:

• The last stanza is what puts together most of the physical characteristics of the woman.
•  "Soft..tender...pure.."

6. Important Words:

• Many adjectives used to describe the scenery and woman.

7. Tone:

• Calm, peaceful

8. Literary Devices/ Techniques:

• Simile
• Personification
• Metaphor

9. Prosody: 

• The rhyming scheme was abab

Sonnet 69: by Pablo Neruda
 Perhaps not being is being, but without you,
without your setting out to cut the noon
like a blue flower, without your walking
later on across the bricks and the fog,

without that light you carry in your hand,
which maybe others will not see turned to gold,
that maybe no one even knew was growing
like the red origin of the rose,

without your being, in the end, without your coming
excitedly, abruptly, to know my life . . .
gust of rosebushes, wheat of the wind,

and since then, I am because you are.
and since then you are, I am, we are,
And through love I and you and we will be.

1. Dramatic Situation:

• A man talking about how his life was changed by the one decision that the girl made; to be with him. 

2.Structure:

•  blank verse, first two stanzas with four lines, last two stanzas with three lines.

3. Theme:

• One small action can cause many reactions and long-lasting effects.

4. Grammar and Meaning:

• The meaning of the poem is to emphasize how prominent careless actions can truly be.

5. Images and Figures of Speech:

•  The light she carries in her hand that turns to gold.

6. Important Words:

• colloquial speech

7. Tone:

• gratitude

8. Literary Devices/ Techniques:

• Personification
• simile
• metaphor 

9. Prosody:  

•  No rhyme