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.
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hey ryan! I understand how you think the end of this letter is a bit angry but it also has come to an understanding about God. Shug makes Celie believe that God didn't create Celie's problems. Celie also realizes that everything around her God has made with love. I think that Shug did try to push Celie toward understanding what God is and how he isn’t this man that Celie thinks he is. I think that Shug just want’s Celie to believe in God because what she has thought of him was wrong. This did cause some tensions between the two! Good blog!!!
ryan, the title of your blogging account says it all: they are amazing
I do agree with you though on the part where you think that at the end of the letter there is some feeling of anger in the air coming out of Celie. I believe that she is frustrated with the fact that her opinion changed on God and she is a little confused. Shug and her talked for a long time about God and who knows, maybe Shug is wrong about him also..
Great blog, i completely agree with the fact that the end of the letter was angry towards man, and the image of God that goes with it. The part about the everything and everywhere idea of God being easier to relate to because it makes it easier to beleive that you have been forgiven was interesting, and I hadn't even thought of that. There were a lot of great ideas here that i agreed with in my blog, and other ideas that i hadnt even paid attention to in the letter, nice blog!
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