The Color Purple PLOT
This is the reason why Sofia ended up in jail.
What is sassing the mayor's wife and punching the mayor?
This color represents God, beauty, freedom, and other things in the novel.
What is the color purple?
This is the name of the nonlinear letter format that both novels were using.
What is epistolary?
This is the patient's final fate.
What is dying in an air raid and going to heaven?
This character "weeps pride" and "always responds with love".
What is God?
This is what Albert was keeping hidden from Celie.
What are Nettie's letters?
The book critiques this system of male authority.
What is patriarchy?
This traditional, circular storytelling format is a common template that often follows a single character through a journey of trials and growth.
What is the Monomyth or Hero's Journey?
Screwtape tells Wormwood to focus on these types of sins.
What are small, unnoticed sins?
This bureaucracy is depicted as "Nothingness".
What is hell?
This is who Celie hires to be a clerk in her store.
Who is Sofia?
This becomes a source of income, independence, and creativity for Celie.
What is sewing?
These are the two methods in which you can tell a story that is not in chronological order.
What is a flashback or flashforward?
What are distractions?
Screwtape advises Wormwood to use this to distort the patient's view of others.
What is pride?
This happened to Celie's biological dad for this reason.
What is being lynched for being too successful at your job?
These are the two major forms of oppression that the book explores when they intersect (happen at the same time) to the characters.
What is racism and sexism?
These are the 4 types of perspectives or POVs you can tell a story through.
What is 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person omniscient, and 3rd period limited?
The devils eat these at the banquet.
Spiritual battles are primarily fought in this place.
What is the human mind?
This fact about slavery and Africa shocks Nettie.
What is Africans captured their own people and sold them into slavery?
The quilt that the women create symbolize this idea.
What is the power of women overcoming hardships by uniting together?
This is an element such as a sound or color that repeats throughout the story and represents a deeper theme.
What is a motif?
Wormwood fails by not exploiting the patient's relationship with these people enough.
What is the patient's family?
Screwtape says that God sometimes withdraws emotional comfort from believers to test this.
What is obedience or faithfulness?