Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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.
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Keaton!
First off, Congrats on all the college admittances!!! WOOOTTTTT I'm so proud of you!
I really liked how you were talking about your curiosity towards finding out where her feelings towards God came from, and how they changed throughout the book. By just reading this excerpt, it is obvious that there is some tension going on throughout Celie's life, and we don't exactly know what it is. I also liked how you talked about what Shug's idea of God was, and how God mainly changed into things of nature instead of an actual person.
Great post Mr. College Man!
Keaton!!!! I really enjoyed reading this! I like how you have such an interest in the book! I do to! As abbey said, I enjoyed how you talked about where the Idea of God came from. Good blog buddy!
Yeah nice post Keaton. Your blog shows that you put a lot of thought into it and I liked that. In terms of the book I really liked how you spoke about Shug's idea of GOD and how it had such a drastic impact on how Celie perceived GOD. I too am interested in the rest of the book because like Abbey Mac said there must be some sort of tension going on in her life. Well actually I think the small excerpt told us about it before we read. About how her family was awful and how she was raped and then her children were sold into slavery... Yeah, there is obviously some intense stuff going on in this woman's life. Onto a more relevant note. You addressed the reading head on with your thoughts and like I said before I enjoyed how you included Shug's idea on GOD. I enjoyed this mostly because I think it was the main idea in the excerpt and because I found it amusing that you mixed up Nellie and Shug. With that aside it was a superb blog.
Nicely Done!
Keaton,
Your blog is well detailed and I like how you talked about Shug and explained how Celie's opinion changed on him. Celie went through some tough times thinking about god and finding what she truly believes. Overall your post is good and responds well to the question. good job
I was also left wondering what would happen in the rest of the book. I said almost the same thing in my blog in relation with how they see God and how men think they are God.
I agree with your thoughts that Shug's idea of god is a cool idea. Incorporating god into nature in such a way that he is always around you. I disagree about reading the rest of the book, that is something I did not consider or even think about until I read your blog. Yea and uh I think you meant Shrug every time you said Nellie.
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