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A 4 page paper which
examines some quotations from Alice Walker’s story “The Third Life of Grange
Copeland.” No additional sources cited.
Page Count:
4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAwalkcp.rtf
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early part of the 20th century concerning the lives and struggles of the African American people. The following paper examines three different quotes from her novel, illustrating their significance to
the story. Conclusion The first quote to be examined comes in the beginning of the novel. It involves the thoughts and experiences of Grange Copeland who is a
simple man in simple times. He has a wife and a child and is merely a farmer. When people come to visit him he shows them all he knows about
the farm and for a little while that seems fascinating until the visitors realize that is all he knows: "He showed them how to milk the cow, feed the
pigs, how to find chicken eggs; but the next day they had bombarded him with talk about automobiles and street lights and paved walks and trash collectors and about something
that he had ridden in once in a department store that went up, up, up from one floor to the next without anybody walking a step. He had been dazzled
by this information and at last overwhelmed. They taunted him because he lived in the country and never saw anything or went anywhere" (Walker 4-5). This sets the stage
as Grange becomes unhappy with his simple life. He leaves behind this wife and child in order to find something better. And, it is his leaving and searching for something
more wondrous that the family falls apart and the struggles truly ensue. If Grange had been happy enough to be a simple farmer his son may not have grown into
the horrible and lost man he became. The next quote is a simple one that seems to define the closed nature of Brownstone as the novel develops: "Folks what
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