Friday, April 13, 2012

Purple


The color purple is the mixture of blue and red. Red is energizing and wild. Blue is soothing and blending. Celie is both blue and red because red represents her love for Shug and her rebelling against her husband. She is also blue because she blends but is a calm person throughout most of the book who just does what she is told. Purple is also the name of the novel because Celie and Shug are talking and Shug says, "God "gets pissed off" if we walk by the color purple without noticing it". Which is telling Celie that there are so many things that God have given us that we don't notice and to live life to the highest. Also Celie shows her "red" color when she says to Mr. ___, "I curse you! Until you do right by me everything you do will fail!" She finally couldn't take it anymore so she put Mr. ___ in his place. Her blue colors show more in the beginning when she is quiet and keeps to herself.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Navy Blue




Navy blue is a very dark blending color. It basically goes with all other colors when it comes to clothing and matching things. In The Color Purple Celie just does what she is told for example, “I don’t say nothing.I think bout Nettie, dead.She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don’t fight, I stay where I’m told. But I’m’ alive.” Her view is just living is enough and blending in with the background, like navy blue, is fine. "Well the next time you come you can look at her. She ugly. She don't even look like she kin to Nettie. But she'll make the better wife. She ain't smart either, and I'll just be fair, you have to watch her or she'll give away everything that you own. But she can work like a man." This shows how little she is respected by  her father who is the one speaking. After he says this Celie doesn't do anything. She just goes where ever she is told. Her father never asked if she wated to marry Mr.___ but she just goes with it to blend like navy blue. 

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Screaming From the Inside Out


The painting "Scream" by Edvard Munch, a Norwegian artist, connects to Celie because she she was angry and scared just like the person in the picture. Celie struggled because she could never tell anyone how she really felt because of the fear that she would be hurt. Also she didn't want to show how she felt because it would make her more vunerable and weak. But just like in this picture she was screaming inside for all the pain and suffering she had been through. She was sometimes scared for her life and couldn't do anything about it because of the time and age she was living in. In the end she doesn't care what society thought of her and left her husband and home so she could be free of screaming inside.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Poem About Anger


Anger Is One Letter Short Of Danger

Anger is fire
It burns the soul
Anger is deep sea
Drowns one to death
Anger is a storm
Blows one
Out of the world
Anger is demon
Overpowers the mind
Anger is a virus
Slowly kills a person
Anger is evil
Brings one closer to hell
Anger is madness
Makes one suffer
Anger is an enemy
Destroys one slowly
Turns friendship
Into enmity
Always remember
Anger is
One letter short of
Danger
It takes its toll
Does not spare
A single soul 
Dr.Rajendra Tela,Nirantar

This poem relates to Celie because she has so much anger built up over the years of abuse from her husband and parents. Also in this time period where the book was set women were starting to revolt against sexual-ism which stirred up a lot of anger between men and women.

Most Important Passage

“What you do when you git mad? She ast. I think. I can’t even remember the last time I felt mad, I say. I used to git mad at my mammy….Then I see how sick she is. Couldn’t stay mad at her. Couldn’t be mad at my daddy….Bible say, Honor father and mother no matter what.” 


I feel like this is the most important passage in the whole novel because it shows how passive Celie is and how she respects others even though they don't respect her. Her father would beat and rape her yet she never showed him how she felt. Also her mother was very very rude and bossy, yet celie stood by her and took care of her all the way to her death. 

Song lyrics that relate to The Color Purple

                                                                "The Lonely"


2am; where do I begin,
Crying off my face again.
The silent sound of loneliness
Wants to follow me to bed.

I'm a ghost of a girl that I want to be most.
I'm the shell of a girl that I used to know well.

Dancing slowly in an empty room,
1.Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sing myself a quiet lullaby.
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again.


2.Too afraid to go inside
For the pain of one more loveless night.

But the loneliness will stay with me
And hold me til I fall asleep.

I'm a ghost of a girl that I want to be most.
I'm the shell of a girl that I used to know well.

Dancing slowly in an empty room,
Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sing myself a quiet lullaby.
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again.

Broken pieces of
A barely breathing story
3.Where there once was love
Now there's only me and the lonely.


Dancing slowly in an empty room
Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again.

  1. Celie is the main character who is in love with Shug who leaves her for a much younger man. Celie feels alone and misses her dearly. Also Shug was a singer who use to sing to Celie.
  2. Celie is married to Mr.___ who would make love to her but neither of them felt anything. 
  3. Celie felt very alone in the world that was ruled by men and ended up leaving her husband to start a pant business.