Shug adores the connection that she has with Celie. Celie nursed Shug back to health while Shug helped Celie with her self-esteem. “She say this song I’m about to name is call Miss Celie’s song” (65). Shug bring closure to Celie’s life, dedicating the song made Celie realize she’s not invisible and her actions does not go unappreciated. No one had brought joy to Celie’s life other than her sister who’s traveling the world. Shug could have dedicated a song to anyone but she chose Celie.
Throughout Bernard's collection of sermons, he justifies the central concerns of the “Song of Songs” within his selected works. He develops a creed of mystical contemplation, meditation, and personal joining with God. Bernard using an allegorical approach, he wrote about the “Song of Songs” and his sermons creating the metaphor of the church, stressing the importance of love in knowing service to God. “Song of Songs” has many interpretations within the love poem, and Bernard conveys them on discussing what the “Song of Songs” is, dives into what the kisses are that indicate the progression on the soul, describes who the four kinds of spirits are, and identifies the bride and Bridegroom.
First, by demonstrating the importance of the color purple, Celie opened her eyes towards God and then became more self-aware of all the small elements that God set to make her feel joyful, like the color purple. Then, many years pass in the book and Celie truly understand what Shug meant by the color purple in the field. She understands that “[her] ability to find a sense of self-worth, is symbolized by her attainment of color purple.” [Kerr, 177]. Celie’s life did not start on the right foot. She lived and saw a lot of things that killed her deep inside. The color purple in the story was not only an original name for a book that Walker wrote. It means something important in the story. This wonderful color, associate with royalty and prestige, follows the total progress of the young black girl who was, in some words, dead inside, that end up being a lady that now lives of freedom, love and happiness. In other words, the small surprises that, according to Shug, God puts in our life, made Celie stronger and increases her
Also in this section, Celie begins her own pants business. Making these pants is more than just simply constructing pieces of fabric together for her. For Celie it’s a new road to her own freedom and independence. We learn through her that she has a creative flair and is actually quite good at making theses pants. She uses her creative abilities to make a living. We see that she begins to that she begins to feel that she has more of a purpose. She isn’t so dependent on Shug as she used to be and learns to depend more on herself. Shug says to Celie at the end of this section, “You making your living. Celie, she say, Girl, you on your way (Walker 221).” We can obviously see that she definitely is on her way to being more self-reliant and independent.
Just say You gonna do what your mammy wouldn’t” (Walker 3). This horrific event, along with the many diatribes she and her father engaged in, was a precursor to many more terrible experiences with men. Due to rape, Celie develops negative connotations towards men not to mention a normal household. These feelings toward men inhibit her ability to be happy in any acceptable marriage of the day. Celie begins, after experiencing a violent relationship with her father, to gaze at women for affection and love. Shortly, after she is given away to Mr.___ (yet another example of the negative environment she grew up in), a woman named Shug Avery comes to visit. Despite the harsh attitude Shug has towards Celie, Celie continues to place Shug high on a pedestal. Later Shug begins to warm up to Celie and at one point, embraces her in a sexual way. Celie describes her interaction with
In, The Song Scaffold At The Scaffold by Gertrud von Le Fort, Blanche’s story is told through the eyes of Villeroi, as he proves to his friend that Blanche is a hero. In France, it is currently chaotic, as the French Revolution is in full swing. Here, Blanche’s heroic story takes place. Blanche’s mother, as a result of the Firework’s Catastrophe, gives birth to Blanche prematurely, and dies immediately after. This tragedy shapes and affects Blanche her whole life. The Infant King gradually helps Blanche to cope with her fear as she gets older, and finally helps her to conquer it, and the Revolutionaires.
anyone. Thus her relationship with Shug develops and becomes close friends. Shug fills the roles of mother, friend, sister, lover and teacher to her. With the help of Shug and Nettie Celie transforms from sorrow to happy, successful and independent woman. She starts new business sewing pants with the help of Shug and becomes a successful business woman. Mr. Albert who has changed a great deal since Celie’s departure repents and reconciles with his wife. Thus the family of Celie is reunited with the arrival of Nettie with her children and ends the novel with happy note. The message of the novel is that women must stand up against the unfair treatment they receive at the hands of men and they should do this by helping one another.
The initiation of her fight back is when Squeak finally speaks for herself, that day when Harpo say “I love you, Squeak”, and “kneel down and try to put his arm around her waist”. Squeak finally stands up and indicates “ my name is Mary Agnes” (letter 95). Although Nettie, Shug, and Sofia all shows Celie what she can do, Celie notice herself is not as smart as Nettie which and teach around the world, and is not as independent as Shug which she can be self-sufficient, definitely is not strong enough like Sofia who can use violation to speak for herself. However, Mary Agnes creates a shocking moment for Celie which proves to her that without being strong or independent, ones’ voice can be powerful enough to express someone as a person. This inspires Celie to become more self-confident and helps Celie finally stand up on the table and shouting out all her depression to her repressive husband, “ You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need” (letter 134). This is the first time where Mr.__ has nothing to say in front of Celie, the first time where Celie know she can do whatever others can, and the first time understand she can be something which will change her life to be
Song of Ariran is a collaborative work of great importance. The book, written by Nym Wales, is a personal account of Kim San, who was a Korean rebel leader based in China. San was fighting the Japanese occupation of his country. The book emerged out of Wales’ interviews with San, which took place in the summer of 1937. While Wales admits that he was not entirely interested in devoting his time and energies to an in depth investigation, he was soon won over by San. According to Wales, even though he had come to China to study China, she could not help but want to write a book about the fascinating Korean revolutionary leader Kim San, and this is exactly what she did by conducting in depth interviews with San.
Celie’s life is sad from the beginning. First her biological father is murdered and then her mother dies. Her mother is mean to her the entire time she’s sick. Celie can’t do anything right for her. She is later raped by her step-father and gives birth to two children that were conceived from the rapes. The step-father pawns her off on a man that Celie calls Mr. throughout her letters. Her marriage is loveless. She’s not only mistreated by her husband but also by the children. Celie married this man only to save her sister Nettie from having to. Nettie comes to live with them, but when Mr. makes advances towards her and she rejects him, he makes her leave.
The purpose of this is to convey to the reader how badly Celie’s husband treats her. He treats her not as a human, but as an animal, like a dog.
This is seen when Shug tells her, “God made [your feelings]. Listen, God love everything you love—and a mess of stuff you don’t” (196). Shug is saying that if God loves the things she loves, so if the way she feels matters to the divine, then its importance is unquestionable. Shug teaching Celie self-confidence is also seen when Shug tells her that she is part of God and that makes her special to be a contribution to such a large ideology. Shug says, “Here 's the thing, […] The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don 't know what you looking for. […] Don 't look like nothing […] It ain 't a picture show. It ain 't something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself. I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you 've found it” (195). This way of introducing Celie to her true potential allows her to understand that she deserves to be happy because she is an exquisite creation of God. Hami’s dissertation on Celie’s empowered identity talks about the improvement of Celie’s life due to Shug’s influence. He says, “Since childhood, Celie was just a subordinate to others and was not able to fight. Through
The second most important relationship that develops in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple”, is the relationship between Celie and Shug. Even before Celie meets Shug she is envious of her; she starts with just word of mouth, then a picture, until finally they meet. Shug represents everything that that is frowned upon in the patriarchal society. She is fatherless, sexually promiscuous, and a very talented singer. She is a strong, independent, and free woman, and because of this she is outcast from society. Walker writes “He talk bout [Shug] a strumpet in short skirts, smoking cigarettes, drinking gin. Singing for money and taking other women mens. Talk bout slut, hussy, heifer and streetcleaner”(44). Shug represents the ultimate freedom to Celie, she is able to control Albert and she is not owned or controlled by any man.
The relationship between Shug and Celie cuts very deep. Both of them help each other become what they really need to be. Both Celie and Shug were very oppressed people. Celie was oppressed by her lack of caring, and by her lack of self esteem. Shug is caught in other people's image of her. She is not free to become what she really wants to be, which is a loving member of a loving family, which she never really had. This is shown by the quote on page 125-6. "(Mama) never love to do nothing had to do with touching nobody, she say. I try to kiss her, she turn her mouth away. Say, Cut that out, Lillie." Celie freed Shug from the role that everybody wanted her to fit into, and Shug freed Celie from the psychological bonds that were keeping her from making of her life what she wanted it to be, by being a mixture of friend, idol, lover, and teacher.
When Shug comes to Mr.____´s house Celie starts to feel something that she had never felt. She start to feel emotions for Shug. As the relationship between Celie and Shug develops, Shug shows Celie that life, freedom and having an identity should be the best present for a black woman which is condemned and trapped for ever after on the cruel and racist society of those times. To begin with, Celie obtains freedom as she escapes from Mr.____ with Shug, then, she realises that life can be much better when you do not depend on any one else, and so Celie does no longer depend on any one but on herself.
Not only had her father told her she was ugly, Shug Avery also took it into her own hands when attempting to make Celie feel ugly. Celie began to feel even worse when she first met Shug Avery, and the excitement she had to see Shug, was ruined as a dark shadow hovered over Celie, making her feel more ugly than she had ever thought. Shug Avery was spoken about by Albert like some kind of Goddess. She was the epitome of beauty for Celie because Albert had spoken about her so fondly.