can someone please give me a descriptive setting of the book "the color purple" i am having a hard time...
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did u read it?\nsetting(time)-1910–1940. Though The Color Purple is a historical novel, it never refers to any factual events. There are no dates, little sense of the passage of time, and very few mentions of characters’ ages.\n\nSetting(place) rural Georgia as well as Africa.\nThe book is distinct in that it doesn't offer a very \ndescriptive setting. The reader has to piece it together.\n\nHeres another description:\nThe novel is set in the first half of the twentieth century in Macon County, Georgia. The novel covers the span of a woman's life -- from adolescence to old age. It is set primarily in the African- American community of a small town, though minor parts of it are set within penal system of the town, which is dominated by white people, and a small African village.
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Theme Analysis \n\n\nAlice Walker depicts Zora Neale Hurston's work as providing the \nAfrican-American literary community with its prime symbol of "racial health - a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings" (190). Appropriately, Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937, provides an enlightening look at the journey of one of these undiminished human beings, Janie Crawford. Janie's story - based on principles of self-exploration, self-empowerment, and self-liberation - details her loss and subsequent attainment of her innocence, as she constantly learns and grows from her difficult experiences with gender issues \nand racism in Their Eyes Were Watching God. \n\nAfter joyfully discovering an archetype for sensuality and love under the pear tree at age sixteen, Janie quickly comes to understand the reality of marriage when she marries Logan Killicks, then Joe Starks. Both men attempt to coerce Janie into submission to them by treating her like a possession: where Killicks works Janie like a mule, Joe objectifies her like a medal around his neck. In addition, Janie learns that passion and love are tied to violence, as Killicks threatens to kill her, and both Joe and Tea Cake beat her to assert their dominance. Yet Janie continually struggles to keep her inner Self intact and strong, remaining resilient in spite of her husbands' \nphysical, verbal, and mental abuse. Janie's resilience is rewarded when she finally meets and marries Tea Cake, who represents the closest semblance to her youthful idealism regarding love and marriage. \nAnother male figure playing prominently in Janie's life is the white man who raped her grandmother; her lineage determines, therefore, that Janie will look whiter than other black women. This fair complexion eventually attracts the ambitious Joe Starks, yet also contributes to Joe's objectification of Janie. Yet, outward appearances aside, Janie's identity takes shape in response to the white male tyranny that made her own birth possible. \n\nFor example, Janie's husband Jody paints his house "a gloaty, sparkly white," (44) humiliates the citizens of Eatonville in similar ways as the white man would, and forces Janie into the slavish servitude reflected by the identity-confining head rag he makes her wear (51). Yet, Janie fights Joe's tyranny by telling him off just before he dies in Chapter Eight, then reclaims her own identity by burning up "every one of her head rags" (85). Similarly, Janie encounters Mrs. Turner, Hurston's symbol of internalized racism, who doesn't "blame de white folks from hating [African-Americans] 'cause Ah can't stand 'em mahself" (135). Again, however, Janie remains true \nto herself as she continues to form her own identity by refusing to leave Tea Cake and class off as Mrs. Turner suggests. \n\nRather than self-destruct under the constant realities of racism and misogyny she receives throughout her life, Janie Crawford does the opposite at the close of Their Eyes Were Watching God. The novel's final image states what Janie does throughout the story - taking her difficult past in and growing stronger and wiser as a result of it. Author Zora Neale Hurston believed that freedom "was something internal….The man himself must make his own emancipation" (189). Likewise, in her defining moment of identity formation, Janie "pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see" (184). At the end of a novel focusing on self-revelation and self-formation, Janie survives with her soul - made resilient by continual struggle - intact.
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I recommend reading "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"...a classic book about a girl being in New York in the 1920's in between wars. It's really very excellent.
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Hey, I learned that book when i was in eleventh grade. When I get home I'll check my notes and try to get back to you. Good Luck!!
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There are numerous on line sites to help you with this novel.  Here are a few of them.  Also, if you do a search for the novel on YA, I think you will find that there are quite a few questions about the novel, so they may help you as well.  Best of luck with your work.
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Ugh, I feel you pain. I had to read that one too.\n\nI don't remember too much of it.\nWhy don't you try SparkNotes.com ...?\n\nGood luck!
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You can likely find a summary on amazon.com.  Just put in the book title and/or author -- the publisher's summary should be near the bottom of the page.
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try sparknotes.com or google.com good luck
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Go to Sparknotes.com! They have chapter summaries along with character analysis, themes and other information.
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What's the book about?  THERE'S A LOT YOU CAN PICK FROM!!!!!\nFriends for life....\nSecret friends.....\nColor doesn't matter....\nIf only they knew....\nWhat friends do....\nYOU PICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm sorry that you're having so much trouble. I'm having trouble helping you interpret the question being that I haven't read that particular novel. I wish you the best of luck, but I can tell you that several people in your class are probably having the same trouble. So, any interpretation of the question that you would have would certainly be better than nothing!! ;)
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check this out:\nhttp://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=reading+book&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt
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You can't get this novel free online that I know of.  Maybe try a used book store~you could pick up a copy for about $1.00.  Try Spark Notes if you have already read the entire novel~it might help you.  http://www.sparknotes.com/
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I have trouble sometimes, too. I usually make sure I'm in a quiet room where I know that I will not be interrupted, I clear my mind, and I read. It's better to take it paragraph by paragraph, and make sure you understand one paragraph before going on to the next. You should take notes and look up words you don't know the meaning of to get a better understanding of the book. \n\nGood Luck:)
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Try www.sparknotes.com. You might already know it as its popular. If not then it might help.
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Check CliffsNotes.com or SparkNotes.com, sorry I couldn't be more help
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OMG... I read that book when I was a kid and don't remember.  But I can tell you that Jane was a young child being raised by her ungrateful relatives, which put Jane in a girls home.\n\nJane grew up to be a nice young woman and became a teacher and got a job teaching a little girl in this rich mans house with nanny's and all.\n\nAnyway, Jane taught piano, math, French and other studies.  From what I remember, the little girls father became fond of Jane.  Jane toward the end leaves for a new job because I guess the had to leave the place with the father wanting Jane and all.\n\nSo, I do remember about a fire in the mansion which left the father blind.  Jane eventually went back to the mansion to visit and found his was blind and stayed with him to take care of him.\n\nThat book has always touched me since I was a little girl.\n\nI know I did not answer your question, but I enjoyed what I wrote.  It made me think of the book and Jane again.