What do you make of the end of this letter? Does it feel peaceful? Angry? Resilient?
I believe that the end of this letter feels both peaceful and relatively angry. Towards the end of her letter, Celie switches opinions on God. When Celie talks about God she says how he loves everything that he has created in including the color purple. This made Celie think about the world and to learn how to appreciate things. At first she thought that God was a white male as she believed what everyone else did. As her opinion changed on this and she became more informed it "freed" her up but she still has that image of the white man in the back of her mind that is bothering her.
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I had the same opinion of the letter. I thought that Celie had a strong faith but was only believing what others said and not giving her mind a chance to think for its own. At the beginning of the letter she had given up on God and at the end it appeared as though it was true. So, the end of the letter was written by anger.
I like the idea of Celie believing only what she was told to believe because it's kind of what religion is like. It's being told what you should believe it. Then Shug guides her to believe what she wants so what you said was a great idea. I don't agree exactly with her giving up on God in the end but the beginning has a good idea that could be expanded on
Eliott I enjoyed the blog and agree with you. I felt that the most important part of this excerpt was when Celie spoke with Shug about religion. You mentioned this and I really liked that. As you said, Celie believed in the idea of a white god whom spent all his time up somewhere above everyone else who would answer your prayers on occasion. This was sort of the idea that Celie had originally before she talked with Shug. Shug did change her view on God and like you said the transition was somewhat angry and happy. It was a resilient change.
Eliott!
How is your still life coming along??
I had the same opinions as you. I thought that her view was much more peaceful than they were towards God at the beginning of the story. Until the end of the story, she was pretty much accepting this new idea of God. At the end of the story, however, her angrier side came out when she spoke about throwing the rock. This shows that she still has some hostility towards the male sex, and therefore was still a little suspicious about her view of God.
Good job!
Good blog Eliott. I agree with you that Shug talking to Celie made her think differently and as you said "Freed" her thoughts. She did still keep her own but she opened her mind up to what she had not thought of before. The thing I find most powerful in this letter was how Shug told Celi that God had created everything she loved and you stated this in your blog!
I also agree with your blog, towards the end of the novel she was relatively peaceful. She did establish a strong belief in God, which in turn could have also led to her peaceful ending. Something else that added to her final happiness was her meeting with her children and sister. Overall good blog and I agree with your blog.
Very nice blog Eliott I agreed with how you talked about how Celie pictured God as a white man. I believe this causes her to struggle with believing in God. Keep up the good work!
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