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    The novel was very entertaining for readers such as myself because it gave more of an insight to womanhood during that time and how many woman are more stronger than the other but at some point they are all the same. The men of the novel were the same as the woman but they had more power or the "upper hand ". In the novel Celie is the main character and is going through a whole lot since 14 ( the books age) but we aren't sure if that's when it all started. Everything switched around for Celie when it got to the end of the novel, I guess she was right when she would say things would last for a minute but heaven last forever. This shows that Celie knew that one day she will get her happiness. This happiness was for all the characters in the novel , even the bad ones received what was destined to happen. Overall the novel is better than the movie but it doesn't matter which one you watch because they are both classics and always will be.

      In the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker there are many differences in the movie from the novel. In the novel Celie and Shug has a strange connection that is very intense but however, in the movie their relationship is watered down which makes readers of the novel rethink their relationship. Also, in the novel Celie addresses letters to God but in the movie it downplays the real meaning of why she wrote to God and told him everything. The movie to me is more of emotions and feelings and really just gives a face to the characters, but the novel gives reason and understanding which the movie kind of lacks. The novel shows the characters strong points but the movie makes the characters seem to have soft spots in different situations.       With all of the differences, they decided to keep the novel in the movie. One way was when Celie was raped by her stepfather she had two kids who were given away to a couple who couldn't have kids. This was very important and in the mov

Dear, Ralph Ellison Your book Invisible man was written in the late 1940s and our history books and other technologies help us understand what it was like back in that time, however we will never experience it. This award winning book is however still relevant in todays society in 2018 because the way you wrote the book and the things you let the narrator experience and see for himself is how African Americans are still today. In your book you talked about how the narrator gave his speach in-front of the whites after the battle royal and they weren’t paying attention and laughing and him and when he slipped up and said something that needed to be said the white men's had to “correct” him . That happens today also because times for African Americans are better than it was but its alot of things that we hoped for and didn’t receive. Many think that WE are less then they are and that we aren’t educated enough to speak what we know and that has been an issue for a long time. But your

Two themes of these chapters are racism, confusion, and pretend. I believe racism because through out the passage the narrator is getting wrongful treatment because of the color of his skin. I believe confusion because as the narrator reaches harlem he is confused on why the treatment is different from the south than up north. Pretend because as he reached up north he met some men that said that he will have stay to yourself self and play the game. The poem I, Too and Refugee in America  by Langston Hughes shows theses themea because it says that we are free even though they say that we are because we still have to look over our shoulders to make sure we dont make a mistake and that being black is hard when we want to be successful.

Chapter 7 1. Telling him to be himself and see what the world has in store for him and he should “fake it till he makes it .” 2. He means that he has to be himself and explore and learn everything himself and discipline himself. 3. The allusion used is when Jonah was in the belly of the whale and the whale was guiding him and the narrator need to be guided through Harlem.

Chapter 4 1. When he was at the campus he didn’t feel as he belonged their because he talked about how the students were peaceful and carefree, however he wasn’t. 2. I believe he hates them because first Trueblood did something disrespectful to his daughter and claim it was an accident and he hates the people at Golden Gate is because he thinks that they have messed up his chance at staying in that college. 3. Because back when slavery was bad, the plantation is where all blacks worked and lived he compares it because their is alot of blacks that attend that college. 4. Because he has figured out how to play the white people games so they can like him. 5. They are metaphors because Dr. Bledsoe hides who he really is when he going to have interactions with white people. He isn’t really showing emotions or his normal movements and the aquarium with fish is just the same, they don’t show no emotions just the movement of their fins. Chapter 5 1. That the white man still watches o

Chapter 1 1. When he refers to the greek sirens 2. His grandfather is saying that he should not make a sence only just play the game they play but have a backup plan. 3. Booker T Washington was a black successful man who was very educated and he is leading in the same path as Washington, thats why he is viewing himself that way. 4. He knows that he shouldn’t feel no way towards him because this is all for the white mans entertainment. 5. He sees how the white mem are and how they act and when he was giving his speach and he said the wrong but right thing, he seen amd knew what he was suppose to say and not. Chapter 2 1. As he was driving the white man home he needed to follow the white line. 2. It shows that white men or people are the leaders of education and the slaves who built is just a background. 3. I find that it was innocent because he talked like he was trying to be forgived and also like he rehearsed the whole speach. 4. He creates an allusion when they narrator

     Ralph Ellison was born in 1913 where racism was very much alive. However, years later he applied and got accepted into an all black college by the name of Tuskegee University but as he made his way to the school and got settled in he realized that the all black college is the same as an all white college, he didn’t see not difference only skin color. But during his college life and after in the 1930s the Great Depression had started. Times was already bad for African Americans but this made it worse. During this time blacks were the first to be laid off from jobs that they had been working hard to keep.      The spark of the African Americans coming together to get what they deserved created something called the New Deal. Also, when Ellison book was published in 1945 the Civil Rights Movement was starting to make some noise throughout every state. This was a good time that his book released because it showed how whites looked at blacks and how they categorized them. The book also

Huckleberry Finn - There was a 14 year old white boy by the name of huck who was still trying to find himself through his foster parents. Soon after a time he reached the point when he met his father who he thought was dead and had to go live with him. The problems with him and his father was very dangerous, because his father did not want huck to be better than him even though it was to late for that. Then there came a time when huck was tired of his foster parents trying to force him into something he was not and his abusive father, those things made huck drift away down the Mississippi River. - After times of living alone he runs into the runaway slave by the name of Jim. As he encounters jim they go on many adventures and meeting people and learning as they did. As they moved all round huck began to understand how blacks where considered and looked as and treated. However, huck really liked jim and thats why they were close friends and went on the journey together as partners.

Emily Dickinson - January 15, 2018 1. “Forever is composed of nows.” - meaning that forever is what many people look for in life and can't wait to reach and saying that it is composed of nows is saying that forever is now and you should be happy and overjoyed that your forever is now . 2. “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” - here Emily could have been talking about death, pain, or a relationship with someone and saying that it will never come again would be sweet because you wouldn’t have to experience that anymore. 3. “If i can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” - meaning that she has gotten her heart broken many times and is now feelind regret from that heartbreak and if she can stop someone else’s heart from feeling the same way, maybe she might not have to live with the regret. 4. “If i read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, i know that is poetry.” - meaning that if i read poetry and i