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In the book The Color Purple there was many different questions I ended the book with. I thought Alice Walker did a very good job making this book, I believe everything in this book was very symbolic and some what truthful to the past situations, One main question I had after the book was complete was why did Celie not freak out more when she found out her "pa" really was not her pa. The chapter ends with Nettie writing to Celie stating "pa is not our pa"! (pg176) Right after that Celie only says "my daddy lynch. My mama crazy" (pg177). I was very stunned that Celie did not freak out more than she did, All she wanted was to see him again which brings up another question why would she want to do that? I mean after you find out that he is not your legit father would probably be a good thing, but he was still her step dad which really just bothers me that she wants to see him again, I guess she most likely wants some answers which she does receive,
The next question I am still pondering is why didn't Celie fight for Shug when Shug told Celie she found someone else. I believe the way Celie acted was childish by just "ignoring" Shug while she was trying to talk to her. But when Celie is telling Nettie the story she starts off by saying "My heart broke. Shug love somebody else" (pg247). I think Celie should have showed more emotion to Shug when Shug was telling her about the other person and may be then Shug would have realized how much Celie really needed her. I am happy that Shug did this to Celie though, because now Celie has had time to find her true self. She ended up having her own company she found some good in her husband and I truly believe she found out who she herself was.
Over all I thought this book was very good, it showed a lot of different meaning. In my life I never had to deal with any of these emotions or struggles and it is crazy to know that these things really could happen.
These are good questions. I wonder if Celie feels like she deserves love--Anita wrote about this in her blog, and raised some interesting moments in the text that show that Celie might believe she's unworthy of Shug's love.
ReplyDeleteBoth of your questions are interesting because these were situations that had helped her become her own person. I was also shocked that she wanted to reach out to her step father however if she had not, she would have wondered what had happened to her mother and why he had withheld information about her real parents. As for why she did not fight for Shug, I believe that either she felt that she was not good enough for her or that Shug would never love her as much as she loved her.
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