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alice walker wrote

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the color purple

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alice walker went to a

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MLA convention

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Richard Wright spoke against Their Eyes because the book is not

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bitter enough about racism

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Richard Wright wrote

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Black boy and native son

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canon is a group

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that says what to read

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the novel is about

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protest against racism

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7
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this novel is a ____ novel

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quest

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the setting is an

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all black town

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symbols of quest

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gate, road, horizon

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10
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jody separates

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janie

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mouth imagery early on

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gossip on porch

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porch-chorus represents

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greek tragedies and plays

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the theme is

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quest

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language

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poetry/ southern dialect

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15
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janie doesn’t

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stand up for herself

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16
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who wrote the foreword

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mary helen washington

17
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male

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doesn’t grow

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female

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inner growth

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janie is

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curiously silent

20
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most critical of Their Eyes

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Richard Wright because it is not bitter enough