Monday, April 27, 2009

The Color Purple Post 4

5 Things I Understand:
  • Nettie is a missionary in Africa.
  • We find out that Celie is a mother of two children.
  • Celie is pretty much depressed because everything that is suppoe to be important to her isn't that important or of significance.(page 177)
  • Now that Celie knows where Nettie is she can keep in contact with her.
  • Celie's kids are name Samuel and Olivia.
4 Questions:
  • Why did Nettie decide to lead a life in Africa rather than in America where she was born?
  • How did Nettie find out that Celie had two kids, and Celie didn't even know?
  • Why is Corrine so significant to the novel as a whole?
  • Why is the phrase lynched daddy repeatedly said?
3 Words:
  • Blasphemy (Walker 192): an act of cursing or reviling God.
  • Swivel (Walker 199): a fastening device that allows the thing fastened to turn around freely upon it, esp. to turn in a full circle.
  • Ailing (walker 210): sickly; unwell.
2 Literary Devices:
  • simile: "Nettie say somewhere in the bible it say Jesus' hair was like lamb's wool" (Walker 194).
  • matephor: "God ain't a he or a she, but a It" (Walker 195).
1 Summary Sentence: This sections is basically about letters going backand forth between Nettie and Celie.

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