The Color Purple Movie Post

Things I Understand:

• It is importnat to how the director puts the burden on the black woman.
• The black woman are always in the screen with another person most likely a man, to probably show them inferior.
• Sophia feels unfamiliar with her own family. High and wide shot when she is walking through her family outside. This shows how much people there actually was.
• When SHug is coming to town Albert rushes to get dressed. Close-up, on what he puts on.
• His feet are disgusing, there is a close-up to show how bad his higene is.
• Low shot as Albert bends down to pick up something.
• The frame stays on Mr. Albert as he moves, but then he goes to the background as there is a mid-shot on Celie.
• Low shot following the flyer, then closeup to show what flyer says.
• "I'm not dead" important because it shows that Nettie has had enough stength to live on her own.
• As Nettie is running in Africa there is a pan as the camera follows her. Albert is nothing without Celie. We see as he is drunk a wide shot to see the overall atmosphere of the place he was at.
• At the end, the camera also goes from wide to a close-up. The camera comes closer to Nettie and Celie as they play their hand game.

Questions:

• Why is everyone in the movie so overemotional?
• What is the significance of Sophia being taken away from her family?
• How does Celie deal with the constant judgement and degrading attitudes?
• Does Shug only get married to show off or to actually changeher ways?
• Why does the begining of the movie start so tragically?
• What does the sun setting as Celie reads the letters symbolize?
• Is Celie content with her new life?

Summary:

Basically the whole movie is about two sisters' paths to find each other once again in order to continue happy lives. We also see the struggles of the Africa American women in the story. "The Color Purple" is a movie where it teacehs out self strength, and how a person shoul do what they want to do, rather than being held down, and what not.

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5 Things I Understand:

• Celie and Nettie plan on meeting up at some point.
• Celie's real father has passed away, and she has received basically all her father's property.
• Nettie and Celie's children can' get to America without proof.
• Albert has some kind of epiphany, and decides to help get Nettie back into America.
• Celie and Nettie have differnt lives, but still have lots of love for each ther, that had never decreased.

4 Questions:

• Why did Albert not get angry when he found out that Celie has become independent?
• What does Celie's personality change say about Alice Walker?
• Why isn't there a ending where Celie really gets to know her children?
• When did Samuel and his wife get married?

3 Words:

• Preshate (Walker 272): could not find a definition.
• Omantangu (Walker 276): could not find a definition.
• Miration (Walker 287): could not find a definition.

2 Literary Devices:

• Simile: "You on and off like a jackrabbit" (Waker 271).
• Metaphor: "I think this the youngest us ever felt" (Walker 288).

1 Summary Sentence: Celie and Nettie are finally reuinted.

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5 Things I Understand:

• Nettie is a missionary in Africa.
• We find out that Celie is a mother of two children.
• Celie is pretty much depressed because everything that is suppoe to be important to her isn't that important or of significance.(page 177)
• Now that Celie knows where Nettie is she can keep in contact with her.
• Celie's kids are name Samuel and Olivia.

4 Questions:

• Why did Nettie decide to lead a life in Africa rather than in America where she was born?
• How did Nettie find out that Celie had two kids, and Celie didn't even know?
• Why is Corrine so significant to the novel as a whole?
• Why is the phrase lynched daddy repeatedly said?

3 Words:

• Blasphemy (Walker 192): an act of cursing or reviling God.
• Swivel (Walker 199): a fastening device that allows the thing fastened to turn around freely upon it, esp. to turn in a full circle.
• Ailing (walker 210): sickly; unwell.

2 Literary Devices:

• simile: "Nettie say somewhere in the bible it say Jesus' hair was like lamb's wool" (Walker 194).
• matephor: "God ain't a he or a she, but a It" (Walker 195).

1 Summary Sentence: This sections is basically about letters going backand forth between Nettie and Celie.

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5 Things I Understand:

• Shug and Mr. kind of have a on and off relationship going on.
• Celie pretty much hates Mr.
• Shug is having somewhat of a confession on page 122.
• Celie finds out that Mr.(Albert) has been stealing and hiding all the letters from Nettie.
• In this section Nettie's letters to Celie are the most important thing.

4 Questions:

• Where is Nettie?
• On page 121 why is the word "funny" italisized?
• Why was Celie picked on so much?
• Why did Albert go after Nettie after he made her leave?

3 Words:

• "...American and African Missionary Society" (Walker 128). (Def: a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work.)
• "...what they call pidgin English" (Walker 148). (Def: an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages.)
• "They plant cassava fields..." (walker 152). (Def: a nutritious starch from the roots, the source of tapioca.)

2 Literary Devices:

• Simile: "Little like sleeping with mama..." (Walker 114). This is a simile because Celie compares laying with Shug like laying with her mother.
• Simile: "That's why the bible says that Jesus Christ had hair like lamb's wool" (Walker 135).

1 Summary Sentence: In this section we find out the Albert has been hiding the letters sent from Nettie so that Celie would not receive them.

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5 Things I Understand:

• Shug is basically a mess, when she is brought to their home.
• Celie finds her comfort place when she is sewing between Mr. and Shug Avery.
• Celie seems to be somewhat educated, but the way she is telling the story seems as if she dumb.
• Celie is a person you can talk to about anything, we see it when Harpo's wife is talking about Harpo.
• Shug seems very ignoant.

4 Questions:

• Why does Celie write in fragments?
• How come Celie hardly mentions Nettie?
• Where are Celie's kids?
• Why does it really seem as if Celie is becoming more stronger and independent as she encounters more people?

3 Words:

• "She muse" (Walker 58). (Def: to meditate on.)
• "Jukejoint sposed to be back in the woods..."(Walker 69). (Def: an establishment where one can eat, drink, and, usually, dance to music provided by a jukebox.)
• "It put me in the mind of a gramaphone" (Walker 98). (Def: the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s.)

2 Literary Devices:

• Simile: "She smile, like a razor opening" (Walker 57). This is a simile because it compares Shug's smile to a razor opening.
• Metaphor: "She look bout ten with her hair all cornrowed" (Walker 57). This is a metaphor becausemthe main character Ceiley is saying Shug looks like a ten year old because her hair style.

1 Summary Sentence: In this section we encounter more characters as Celie learns more about her own life as well as others.

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5 Things I Understand:

• In the beginning the main character is talking to God.
• It's sad how the main character's mother died, when she was still at a young age.
• It's kind of ironic how the character is telling God everything that happens, when she also believes God knows everything and makes everything happen for a reason.
• It is obvious that the character, I presume to be the main character, does not have a good relationship with her mother or most anyone.
• Reading the book is somewhat confusing because the main character jumps from topic to topic with no transitions.

4 Questions:

• Why is the main character talking to God, if God is all knowing?
• Who is Lucious?
• Who really killed the baby?(I don't believe God killed it.)
• Why is there so much dying in the beginning of the story?

3 Words:

• "She say Mr. ___ was taking somethin out his billfold to show Pa..."(Walker 6). (Def: a thin, flat, folding case, often of leather, for carrying paper money in the pocket and with fewer compartments than a wallet.)
• "What you settingherelaughing like a fool fer" (Walker 15).(Def: a combining form meaning that which carries the thing specified by the initial element, used in the formation of compound words.)
• "He drop the hoe in the furrow" (Walker 26). (Def: a narrow groove made in the ground, esp. by a plow.)

2 Literary Devices:

• Simile: "They cry like they mama just die" (Walker 29). This is a simile because they describe the way the children were cring with the way they would cry if their mother died.
• Interjection: "He fell bam up against the stove" (Walker 37). This is interjection because it expresses a sound.

1 Summary Sentence: The first section of my reading is just the main character giving a plot as she grows older; about her family and what happens around town.