Thoughts On The Color Purple

After reading the excerpt from the color purple I am left wondering about the rest of the book. I dont really know where this discussion is coming from in the book and i would be somewhat interested to try and find out where it comes from. This is intriguining to me because i feel like the feelings portrayed by Nellie and Shug in this letter show a deep seeded set of emotions. The thoughts in this letter are complex and vary greatly. Whether it be Celie's portrayal as GOD as a white man in power or Nellie's portrayal of GOD as everything and nothing. Nellie's portrayal is exceptionally interesting to me because in my mind it somewhat takes away the idea of a GOD. It takes GOD all that he or in the letter, it is supposed to be, and turns him into nature. He is not truly expressed as jsut this such word but Nellie's idea as being in everything but not really visible makes GOD into somewhat of the superior being that Nellie does not see him as. It takes the GOD that Nellie is getting from conventional church, and turns him into the GOD that is portrayed in the bible. A GOD that is everything and is in everything and is always working for us. I particularly like the portion where Nellie is talking about how it does not matter if we love GOD or not but that he will always be loving us back. That there will always be little surprises created just for us. To me this is a more positive outlook which is different from my first impressions of what Nellie had to say because I thought she was going to be trying to just go along with Cellie and just be a complete GOD bashing excerpt. However I was pleasantly surprised with what I found and would somewhat consider reading this entire book.