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This image gives us an idea of what churches in Georgia were like during the time of The Color Purple. However, the image seems to include a white majority, different from that of The Color Purple

The article is an opinion piece written to a newspaper by Dr. Putnam. It is his frustrations regarding the burial practice done by Christians in a city atmosphere and how it is an abomination. Which leads to the significance of Forest Hills cemetery…

This book is significant for The House of Mirth because it stresses how important architecture was in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this generation, house decoration became a branch of architecture. This is when the architecture of the…

The engraving illustrates the day-to-day lifestyle of people in the 18th century. The image is intended to be of Ludgate Hill, which is situated in London.
The document shows the busy streets of London, surrounded by tall buildings in the…

This is a map of the main gold regions in California during the gold rush. In the novel, Gertrude's dad speaks about the gold rush in a letter, including that there were many people involved that they were fighting for the riches and describing the…

This is a detailed drawing of a British Naval ship of war common in the year of 1728. Ships like this were likely to have been used in fighting the Napoleonic Wars, the French Revolutionary War, and the American War of Independence. The typical naval…

This image is a picture of what Main Street in Macon Georgia would’ve looked like around the time of Color Purple. One of the places in the book where main street is mention is on Page. 192 Specifically it says "Remember the main street of town? I…

In the Lamplighter, Graham’s country house contained old-fashioned entrances on both sides with a sloped and shady lawn. From the novel, we know that the family was rich, which makes readers predict that the house was definitely nice considering that…

The passage I picked reminds me of the hovel in Charlotte Temple. In the beginning, the author uses imagery to help the reader understand what the run down hovel looks like. I connected this to Charlotte Temple mainly because it includes a mother and…

In the novel, The Color Purple, rubber plantations are a main concern for those living in Africa. The rubber plantations were a way for big businesses to make a lot of money, but this was at the expense of the villagers in Africa. In the novel,…