Due November 30 th by 11:59 pm Please email your responses to the below questions to me. You may also choose to post your check ins to the class site as a way of sharing with your classmates. As of now, what is your central question? (Your central question is the question that each of…
In the Part 2 of “Leaving Atlanta” Jones writes us a second person narrator who is has intimate insight into Rodney’s interior thoughts and feelings. It would seem on face value that this is an omniscient narrator, but the narrator only knows Rodney. The narrator is centered around Rodney and never provides that kind of…
The role of the t.v in part one of Tayari Jones’ Leaving Atlanta is not a large presence, however, it is an insightful one. Once it becomes present in the kitchen, it becomes a participant at the dinner table, setting the tone and filling their stomachs with emotions. Readers understand Tasha and her sister Deshaun…
I want to look at the way the narrator describes Daddy’s absent voice compared to how the narrator describes Mama’s present body. What happens is that the narrator attributes physical or sensual characteristics to Daddy (even when he isn’t present) and gives descriptions about the unwanted presence of Mama. This difference parallels Tasha’s confusion or…
“”Shh…” said Mama. “I know. you don’t have to talk about it.” She rocked [Daddy] like a grumpy baby. “Mama, let him say it,” Tasha whispered. Only words can undo words. Kids say that to take something back you have to say it backward. Like a filmstrip run the wrong way. Die you hope I.…
Walker illustrates the experience of Black Americans as a kind of motherless children, to quote the jazz standard, who live as second class citizens in America, but are also rejected by the people of their home continent. In a letter to Celie, Nettie describes in near reverent terms: “try to imagine,” she tells her sister,…
After reading and watching “The Color Purple” I thought it would be interesting to look into the context of the book and movie. In my preliminary research, I found a really helpful starting place on Sparknotes which provided basic background info on author Alice Walker. If you are interested in a quick read, I recommend…
The character development within Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, is quite critical. While Celie, the protagonist, develops drastically based on her environment and other characters around her, so does her sister Nettie overseas. Although Celie’s character is more focal, readers are able to see the two sisters’ identities unravel over the course of the…
Reflection on Content Describe a few of the connections you see between your different entries? As you reflect on your entries, do you find any contradictions between one entry and another? Or even within one entry? Compare your first entry and your latest entry. Are their similarities to the types of questions and topics you’re…
Drawing on Professor Curseen’s theory from last class — that blackness gets defined differently in The Color Purple — I wanted to investigate how blackness represents itself between Sofia and Celie. The dialog between Sofia and Celie, as well as their interactions with Miss Millie’s family, identify blackness as something other than the conflict of…