Friday, November 27, 2009

Color Purple

Question: What do you make of the end of this letter? Is it peaceful? Resilient? Angry?
The middle of the last page and down it sounds angry. Towards the end she is angry that man is always trying to pretend they are everywhere. She said, "Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere." She is angry that man tries to pretend he is God when he is not. She says that man is always trying to put his face to something but God is much more than that. She says that God is more like nature, which is when she talks about the flowers. She tells Cecilia that she has to get beyond man and what man has made. She said she has to look at how a flower manifest and how nature manifest and that will how how God is. She said, "Trying to chase that old white man out of my head. I been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn(how it do that?) not the color purple (where it come from). Not the wildflowers. Nothing." She meant that God is always there and he makes you think of the more profound things in life.

1 comment:

  1. Good blog!
    I agree with you when you say that the beginning was much angrier and once she really sat down and thought about it her feelings towards God started to lighten up a little bit. In the beginning, she talks about all the negative things about God, but then she, with the help of Shug, makes the realization that God created everything the good the bad and the ugly. You also did a great job pulling support out from the text! It helped strengthen all of your points!
    Great job!

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