Choose ONE of the following topics; discuss and analyze it in a 750-word essay. Remember that your...

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Choose ONE of the following topics; discuss and analyze it in a 750-word essay. Remember that your THESIS, the main idea of your essay, must be an ARGUABLE ASSERTION about something SPECIFIC and SIGNIFICANT. Support your thesis with specific details (EVENTS, IMAGES, PHRASES) drawn from the material.

Your essay MUST focus primarily on The Color Purple. It may compare it to ONE of the newer versions of the Cinderella story (“When the Clock Strikes”, “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter”, “The Necklace”) or ONE of the older versions (“Ashputtle”,“The Cat Cinderella”, “Cendrillon”, and the Chinese, African, Native American, Japanese, Iraqi, Filipino and Scottish Cinderella tales). You may discuss the essays by Panttaja, Yolen, or Bettelheim. (DO NOT write about Disney’s “Cinderella”; essays focusing on Disney material or anything NOT on this list will NOT be graded.)

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CULTURAL PARADIGMS
Introduction
One of the very famous novel, “The Color Purple” written by Alice Walker was published in the year 1982. The novel won the price for famous literacy award the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. The story talks about the African American protagonist who endures many challenges in life, abused, exploited, and ultimately struggles to be independent. By the virtue of this assignment, we are comparing the novel Color Purple with another story that holds a deeper meaning The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant.
Thesis & Principle Idea
By the virtue of this assignment, I have selected the topic “Cinderella”, Old and New. Comparing not the classic folktale but related version “The Necklace” (Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893) with that of the contemporary lifestyle and struggles in order to find ultimate happiness in life exhibited in “The Color Purple” (Walker, 1982). Both the stories run on different story lines but one is able to discern strong parallels between the Celia in the novel “The Color Purple” and Mathilde Loisel in the Story “The Necklace”. Both the characters are protagonist in their story who have endured trauma and faced the wrath of their submissiveness and lack of courage, initially. As the story opens up, both the characters are portrayed innocent, helpless and defenseless. My thesis, paints the evident parallel between the two protagonist and my main idea is about strive for independence and find own liberation from the sufferings. As observed in the story, “The Necklace” how beautiful Mathilde Loisel just to prove to her other wealthy friends that she is rich, works her entire life to repay the debt of a necklace that she comes to realize want even real. We can comprehend similar incidence in the novel “The Color Purple” as well where Celia had to comprehend what she is worth,

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