In this letter, Celie is telling Nettie about a conversation between her and Shug. In the conversation, Celie says that she is done with God. Shug starts to defend God and gives Celie new ideas about God. Before, Celie had seen God as a white man with white robes and a white beard. Her God was the white God. Shug explains to her that God isn’t just a man in the sky, God is everything. She describes God as “It.” It is okay with everything that they do, even the things that some people would think is sin, because It created everything and wants people to enjoy them and every emotion that goes with it. Shug says that everyone just wants to be loved, and so does God. She finds God in nature, and sees God whenever she walks through a field of purple wildflowers. God wants to please them too, not everything is about pleasing God.
At the end of the letter, Celie tells Nettie that she likes this idea of God, but is having trouble chasing the old white man out of her head. Celie talks about rocks, and says that she ends up just throwing the rocks. This shows that she feels anger. She had earlier denounced God because her life was so bad, and she didn’t understand why he had let all of these things happen to her. When Shug spoke to her about the God she knows, Celie realized ideas she had never thought about before. She is angry because man has always been in the way of God, and she has always had men on her mind. She wants to start thinking about God and keep man out of her head. She wants to start thinking about God being in nature and stop thinking about men.
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Eríca!
ReplyDeleteBien trabajo! Me gusta que tú hablas sobre le idea que Celie tiene de Dío. Ella piensa que Dío es un hombre blanco con un grande bigote and balba, y si es un hombre blanco, ella sabe que el no va a ayudarle. Esté da fuente con su idea. Mientras Celie no le gusta Dío, Shug tiene un idea grande sobre Dío. Su Dío es un "lo" que tiene amor por todas las personas y sus acíones. Ella está enojada con los hombres de su vida y entonces está enojada con Dío. Me gusta que tú hablas bien sobre sus sentimientos en el final de la letra.
Te amo muchísimo
(Señora Lamags, quieres que yo escribe en ingles, porque yo hablo con erica todavia en espanol!)
OH my god abbey your such a nerd!!! I can't believe I am about to try and keep this spanish theme going but what the heck...
ReplyDelete¡Erica!
¡Yo me gusta te blog! No me gusta Espanol. Sin embargo yo me gusta te blog. Yo me gusta que tú escribias sobre celie y los pensamientos de Celie. Celie no me gusta GOD pero Shug describe un diferente GOD. Un GOD eso esta en la naturaleza. GOD quieres cada uno vea la naturaleza hermoso. yo me gusta que tú hablas sobre le idea de Shug. Yo me gusta que tú hablas sobre enojada Celie sentirse sobre GOD. El idea sobre Celie tenga de GOD cambiado en la fin.
¡Bien trabajo Erica!
¡Ojla lo siento Senora Lamags, Soy malo en espanol.
I agree with you, and thought it was interesting how you went into a little more detail about her actual struggle, into converting to the God that Shrug sees. I thought that the reference to the wildflowers was brilliant. Celie did have a new thought on life toward the end of the story. Even though to get her old ideas out of her head was a struggle.
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