Is Alice Walker sexist because the men in her story are almost universally mean? Should she have placed more emphasis on race rather than gender?
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"Alice Walker's The Color Purple weaves an intricate mosaic of women joined by their love for each other, the men who abuse them, and the children they care for."
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Denotation
The explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience.
Irony
In literature it is used as a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or seemingly stated.
Connection
The set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term and thus determining the range of objects to which that term may be applied; comprehension; intension.
Theme
Theme is the dominant idea that a writer is trying to convey to his readers in a work of literature.
Characterization
The creation and convincing representation of fictitious characters.
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