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Bia Stroud

Cards (28)

  • I ast him to take me instead of Nettie'

    Celie chapter 7
  • I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive'

    Celie chapter 11
  • Beat her I say'

    Celie to Harpo chapter
  • Hardworking. Godfearing and clean. I dont know what more you want'

    Celie to Harpo about Sofia
    Chapter 29
  • you a lowdown dog is whats wrong, I say... Sofia so surprised to hear me speak she ain't chewed for ten minutes'

    Celie chapter 74
  • I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook... But I'm here'

    Celie chapter 75
  • You've got to fight'

    Nettie chapter 52
  • Harpo ast his daddy why he beat me. Mr—— say cause she my wife'

    Chapter 13
  • I wont leave, she say, until I know Albert won't even think about beating you'

    Shug chapter 34
  • Why Miss Celie, she say, you still a virgin'

    Shug chapter 35
  • I notice how Shug talk and act sometimes like a man'

    Celie chapter 36
  • All my life i had to fight..... but I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me'

    Sofia
    Chapter 21
    The generational trauma and abuse she suffered but how she became stronger from the back of it
  • She do what she want, she don't pay me no mind at all'

    Harpo
    Chapter 29
    Sofia is subverting gender stereotypes and Harpo is simply acting on what he has seen his farther do- generational mirroring which is preventing social progression
  • Sofia sit down at the big table like there's no room for her'

    Celie about Sofia
    Chapter 74
    The oppressive society has forced her to become small and submissive
  • One minute I was saying howdy to a living woman. The next minute nothing living was there'

    Nettie about Sofia
    Chapter 55
  • Women work. I'm a man'

    Harpo
    Shows the influence that Mr— has had on Harpo and the generational trauma
  • He love that part of housekeeping a heap more 'en me'

    Sofia about Harpo
    Chapter 28
  • Harpo eat when he not even hungry'

    Chapter 28
    Societal pressure to look more like a man because he feels insecure in his relationship
    Representes how everyone in society was forced to conform
  • She do anything Harpo say. He give her little nickname too, call her Squeak'

    Celie about Squeak
    Chapter 36
    He has replaces Sofia with someone submissive so that he can feel less insecure
  • My name Mary Agnes, she say'

    Mary Agnes
    Chapter 41
    We see her character development
  • Shug say us each others peoples now, and kiss me'

    Celie
    Chapter 69
  • All us laugh and laugh'

    Chapter 47
    Laughter is a sign of female liberation
  • Bible say honor mother and father no matter what's

    Celie
    Chapter 21
    How religion has restricted her and forced her into accepting things which are not right
  • I don't write to God no more.... What God do for me? I ast'

    Celie
    Chapter 73
    How she is losing faith in religion though her personal liberation
  • I didn't realise how ignorant I was'

    Nettie
    Chapter 55
    Highlights the lack of education present in southern America
  • I wash her body , it feel like I'm praying'

    Celie
    Chapter 24
    An overlap of themes between sexuality and religion
    Part of her sexual awakening, in which she gains liberation
  • She clam up the ladder to the roof, begin to hammer in nails. Sound echo cross the yard like shots'

    Celie talking about Sofia
    The 'shots' are an attack on on Harpo's masculinity
  • Now us sit sewing and talking'

    Celie about her and Mr—
    Chapter 87
    Evolución of their relationship in sewing which is a motif for womanhood and bonds