By Sara Kelly Short summary of the color purple The Color Purple is focused on a black woman named Celie and her life and the struggles she goes through such as rape being married to a man that she does not love a lesbian romance and raising a family that is not her own ID: 224367
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Comparative Analysis of The Color Purple and Beloved
By Sara KellySlide2
Short summary of the color purple
The Color Purple is focused on a black woman named
Celie
and her life and the struggles she goes through such as rape, being married to a man that she does not love, a lesbian romance, and raising a family that is not her own.Slide3
Short Summary of Beloved
Beloved is the story of a young black family whose mother kills her own child and is convinced that she comes back reincarnated in a young woman named Beloved. Many superstitious things happen to the family and they are all convinced that it is because of the ghost of the baby that
Sethe
killed. Slide4
The shared theme
The shared theme between these stories are the story line of black women who try to live after being either in or a generation after slavery and the struggles and superstitions they endureSlide5
Context
You can tell that the two pieces are meant to be from the same time period, especially because of the way they talk. For instance in The Color Purple,
Celie
writes in a dialect that an uneducated person in that time would write. You can tell from conversation in Beloved that they way they talk is the same way
Celie
writes. Unfortunately this was not at all uncommon in the 1860’s, which is the time period these pieces are set in.Slide6
HACKING INTO LITERATURE
These works of literature show you what it is like for a black woman in the 1860’s. You can see how they were treated and their superstitions
These pieces of work really relate to some of the readings in Unit 3. For example, “The Woman Hanging From the 13
th
Floor Window” addresses the roles expected of certain women and their lives. All these pieces of work are deep into showing the life of a woman at a certain time and the struggles
they endure