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The Color Purple Essay

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Introduction. In life, people perceive life differently, either positively or negatively, and this gives one an idea of how others view the world. With reference to the novel” color purple,” the character Celie goes through difficulties such as struggles, hardships, and sexual / gender violence. She opened up through letter writing to her ‘God’. On the other hand, her perception are seen as a mirror to reflect the lives of an individual who face the obstacle and choose to overlook them and strive to identify themselves. Hope, resilience and transformation prevailed. In the novel, different themes come out clearly to expresses different situation that occurs in day today to today life. The following are some of the discussed subjects as depicted …show more content…

Beside all these different acts, all region some up to a belief of a supreme being (God) that is in controls and keep things in an organized manner. Over the years, different cultures have had different religious practice, and all of this religion have had different views of how God presents Himself. Celie believed God to be an old man with white skin and a white beard. She depicted God as an abstract (cannot be seen nor felt), authoritative (power over everything), and dependable being to whom anyone can share and relate his or herself. Celie went further to identify God as being “something”, that God is neither a person nor someone and that He dwells in oneself. The fact that God is an abstract figure and that He is not somebody, it can be safe to say that God is present anywhere and mostly within one's heart. This thought gave Celie hope, and she persisted through her endowers with the thought the someone mighty cares and loves her.With time, her world view about God change especially when her father Alfonso used to go to church but his deeds said otherwise.She felt that God was far, and He never answered her letters.Shug tried to explain to her about God, who dwells within oneself and always with

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