Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Color Purple Letter

After reading the letter from the Color Purple I feel the ending is angry. Throughout the letter Celie is complaining to Shug the blues singer about God. She doesn't think God is very kind to her at all. Shug tries to help tell Celie that you must have your own view of God because if you picture him as a white tall man with a lot of hair, which Celie does then you wont have a connection with him. Shug believes that God is everywhere and everything. SHe doesn't believe in just one set figure, which is why it is easy for her to relate herself to God and forgive. At the end of the letter it gets angry though because Shug starts to talk to Celie about how man corrupts everything. She starts to tell Celie man doesn't ever do anything good, but corrupt your head and make you think he is the on in charge. Shug is very angry about this and expresses it to Celie at the end of the letter. The other reason why the end of the letter is angry is because she talks about not praying at all and not believing. These comments cause anger between them because they are angry towards man and if you picture God as a tall white man then you are going to be angry towards him. This is why the end of the letter is angry because Shug is explaining her anger towards man and why you must picture God as being everywhere and not just one major figure.