Which words in the sentence make up the prepositional phrase? i put my new purple tennis shoes in the closet and shut the door.

"I" is the subject, "put" and "shut" are the actions, and "my new purple tennis shoes" and "the door" are the objects. "In the closet" tells where shoes were put, which is what an adverbial preposition does, so those words make up the prepositional phrase.

learning how to embrace the effects of colonialism is one of the central ideas of the play.

since he could see color, and nobody else could, he didn't find it fair that everyone else in the utopia couldn't see color but him and the giver : d