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    <title>The Color Purple Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[The setting for The Color Purple is Georgia. The story takes place ...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/what-setting-color-purple-40109</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The setting for The Color Purple is Georgia. The story takes place  between 1909 and 1949. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:49:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the setting of &quot;The Color Purple&quot;?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/what-setting-color-purple-40109</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the setting of &quot;The Color Purple&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:53:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The main plot revolves around a girl named Celie. Written in the form of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/what-main-plot-for-color-purple-by-alice-walker-38771</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The main plot revolves around a girl named Celie. Written in the form of letters to God, Celie recounts her early life as an abused child who had two children by her stepfather. She is then married to an older man named Mr., who is really in love with another woman, named Shug. All he wants Celie for is to take care of his house and children and for sexual purposes. Celie endures this until Mr. kicks her beloved sister, Nettie, out of his...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:13:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the main plot for "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the main plot for "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:23:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&quot;The Color Purple&quot; has been banned for a variety of reasons....]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/why-was-book-color-purple-banned-what-category-38419</link>
        <description><![CDATA[&quot;The Color Purple&quot; has been banned for a variety of reasons.  Some of them include: homosexuality, sexual explicitness, offensive language, and &quot;troubling ideas about race relations, man's relationship to God, African history, and human sexuality.&quot;  As far as &quot;The Color Purple&quot; not being banned, it depends on the specific case as to why it was or was not allowed to be taught, read or left in a library.  Usually...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:46:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why was the book &quot;The Color Purple&quot; banned?  What was done to...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/why-was-book-color-purple-banned-what-category-38419</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why was the book &quot;The Color Purple&quot; banned?  What was done to allow the book &quot;The Color Purple&quot; not to be banned?  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:57:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Studying Alice Walker's early life reveals her attitudes toward men,...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/why-does-alice-walker-put-blank-lines-book-color-1762</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Studying Alice Walker's early life reveals her attitudes toward men, particularly abusive, insensitive men such as Albert.  Walker has said in interviews that Celie initially expresses her awe of her husband by referring to him as &quot;Mr.-----.&quot;  As she grows spiritually and mentally, she uses &quot;Mr. -----&quot; as an expression of her disrespect and disgust for Albert.  At the end of the novel, when Celie has matured and become...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:57:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In letters 80-81, Nettie writes that she and Samuel were married in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In letters 80-81, Nettie writes that she and Samuel were married in England. They had gone there to try to ask the Missionary Society for aid for the Olinka people, whose village had been razed to make way for a headquarters for the rubber plantation. The people are now living in a temporary shelter that they had to build themselves.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:47:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What location besides Africa and Georgia is mentioned in &quot;The Color...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What location besides Africa and Georgia is mentioned in &quot;The Color Purple&quot;? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:31:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nettie, Celie's younger sister, goes on a missionary trip to Africa, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nettie, Celie's younger sister, goes on a missionary trip to Africa, and lives for a time with the Olinka tribe.  The Olinka are surprised that the missionary group from America is black, and are even more shocked that the group includes women.  As Nettie tells Celie, the Olinka &quot;do not believe girls should be educated...a girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something...the mother of his children&quot;. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:30:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who are the Olinka in Alice Walker's book The Color Purple? ]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/who-olinko-this-story-20911</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Who are the Olinka in Alice Walker's book The Color Purple? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:49:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[genre of fiction]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/what-genre-novel-color-purple-16913</link>
        <description><![CDATA[genre of fiction]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:17:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well, first of all The Color Purple falls under the broadest genre of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/what-genre-novel-color-purple-16913</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Well, first of all The Color Purple falls under the broadest genre of fiction.  The three primary genres are poetry, drama, and fiction.  Once assigned a broad genre, a work is then subcategorized:  in this case, the subgenre is the novel (as opposed to the short story, for example.)  The novel follows certain conventions (expectations), such as the rising action, climax, and denoument (falling action), to which Walker's novel adheres.If...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:20:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What genre is the novel &quot;The Color Purple&quot;? ]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/what-genre-novel-color-purple-16913</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What genre is the novel &quot;The Color Purple&quot;? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:04:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In addition to all of those connotations, purple also calls to mind...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In addition to all of those connotations, purple also calls to mind bruises, and the protagonist of this novel suffers many, both literally and figuratively. It is the relationship between the bruise and the hope, the suffering and the rich nature of her life, that comprise the meanings of the title.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:06:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Purple stands for hope, and one of the great miracles of this book is...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/why-alice-walker-s-novel-entitled-color-purple-9039</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Purple stands for hope, and one of the great miracles of this book is that anyone who lived through it (like Celie) could find any hope at all. It is the beauty of the rare, the miraculous, the unlooked for. (Traditionally, purple was also associated with royalty and riches.)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:41:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why is Alice Walker's novel entitled The Color Purple, and what does it...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/why-alice-walker-s-novel-entitled-color-purple-9039</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why is Alice Walker's novel entitled The Color Purple, and what does it have to do with beauty?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/why-alice-walker-s-novel-entitled-color-purple-9039</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:14:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Interior monologues are often those conversations you cannot bear to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Interior monologues are often those conversations you cannot bear to speak aloud to anyone-whether from fear or shame most often. Therefore, it is a conversation held only with yourself-often it is with dissatisfaction.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2007 12:21:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does Alice Walker put blank lines in the book The Color Purple for...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/why-does-alice-walker-put-blank-lines-book-color-1762</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why does Alice Walker put blank lines in the book The Color Purple for Mr. Albert? And why did she name the novel The Color Purple?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:09:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ah, good question. Start by breaking the term up.
"Interior" = it...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/color-purple/q-and-a/please-explain-phrase-interior-monologue-for-me-771</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Ah, good question. Start by breaking the term up.
"Interior" = it happens inside the character's head.
"mono" = one.
"-logue" comes from the Greek word for "word," and so together "monologue" means "one speaker."

Put it all together, and you get one speaker talking to him or her self inside his or her own head. If you've ever obsessed over something like a tough decision, and found yourself talking to yourself  silently (What should I do?...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:22:10 PST</pubDate>
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