What Is Celie's Response To The Color Purple

You’ll always be loved by me Alice Walker’s The Color The Color Purple is an emotionally impacting story whose ending contains a great significance. The story starts off with a young 14 year old girl named Celie. She is uneducated, black, and feels unworthy of herself. She is abused by her father and forced into marriage with Albert a man she does not love and calls Mr.___. Her sister whom she loved unconditionally was forced to go away when Celie went away. A woman named Shug Avery comes into her life and changes Celie's’ perspective on love and her self-esteem. In the end Celie was able to upsurge her status from a young mistreated girl to a confident proud woman and is reunited with her loved ones and forgives those who had once harmed

I write to you. What happened to God? ast Shug. Who that? I say. She look at me serious. Big a devil as you is, I say, you not worried bout no God, surely. He gave you life, good health, and a good woman that love you to death. Yeah, I say, and he give me a lynched daddy, a crazy mama, a lowdown dog of a step pa and a sister I probably won’t ever see again. Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful and lowdown (Walker

What Celie doesn't understand is that God works in various ways that are beyond our understanding. Shug asks Celie, “ -have you ever found God in church?” (Walker 194), Celie replied “ I never did”(Walker 194) Shug is amazed then tells Celie that people “ -come to church to share God, not find God.” ( Walker 194). At this point we are finally able to understand that Celie had the wrong perspective about God thought her life and that was the reason there was uncertainty in their relationship. “The idea of an omnipresent God is comforting to Celie, it means that God is Universal, and within herself as well. There is not Specific “being” there to save her, just and essence,and and experience that she must feel herself; it is an inner peace Celie needs to discover.” Throughout the end of the book Celie finds out that Nettie is in safety following her dreams in Africa learning and helping communities in need and is alleviated because Nettie always wanted to learn more and go places in