Celie's Life and Hard Times. Alice Walker vividly portrays the sad but apparent reality of life in the black rural communities of America during the mid-twentieth century. It is a time when the impacts of slavery are still prevalent. The relationships within families - as reflected in the novel - also feel this impact. In search of a means to overcome their inferiority in a society dominated by whites, men usually have their womenfolk provide them with the feeling of importance that they desire (such as the practice of addressing their husbands as Mr.______). This attitude towards women is made obvious on the very first page, depicting Celie's perception of her stepfather, "He never had a kine word to say to me. Just say You gonna do what your mammy wouldn't" (1). As Celie's life progresses, having given birth to two children - both of whom were taken away by her father - she is wed to Mr.______ unceremoniously. Pa, one the basis that she was too young, rejected the request for Nettie's hand in marriage to Mr.______. Instead he offers Celie, claiming she was the more viable candidate on the following grounds: She ugly. He say. But she ain't no stranger to hard work. And she clean. And God fixed her. You can do everything just like you want to and she ain't gonna make you feed it or clothe it. (9) Beginning from that day on Celie's life took an ever-downward sloping turn. She endures seeing Olivia with a new mother, the animosity of Harpo, taking care of Mr. ______'s children, and his abuse. Her relationship with Mr.______ is such that it could hardly be called a marriage. She was to do just as he said, without so much as uttering a word of disagreement. She no longer possesses a zeal for life: "My life stop when I left home . . ." (85). Each day is just another chore During this time Nettie had also experiences some trouble at home with Pa. After she realizes that to remain at home any longer would be a compromise to her safety she runs away to Mr.______'s home. There she is welcome since Mr.______ still thinks Nettie to be very attractive - but for a while only - as Nettie does not give in to his demands. When Mr.______ drives Nettie away, Celie experiences a loss so profound that it would take many years to undo the damage done. Up until that stage in Celie's life none had ever expressed any concern over herself. It was Nettie who ensured that Celie was literate, that Celie received an education, that Celie was not pushed around by
has to go to the woman’s side and ask her parents for permission to be wed. The man has
Reasoning: The intentions of the marriage were good. He wanted to end the feud of the two families which worked. Even though it took the
...eir lifehave felt and seen themselves as just that. That’s why as the author grew up in his southerncommunity, which use to in slave the Black’s “Separate Pasts” helps you see a different waywithout using the sense I violence but using words to promote change in one’s mind set. Hedescribed the tension between both communities very well. The way the book was writing in firstperson really helped readers see that these thoughts , and worries and compassion was really felttowards this situation that was going on at the time with different societies. The fact that theMcLaurin was a white person changed the views, that yeah he was considered a superior beingbut to him he saw it different he used words to try to change his peers views and traditionalways. McLaurin try to remove the concept of fear so that both communities could see them selfas people and as equal races.
knew that she didn't love him, but still proceeded to commit the rest of his life to her. Consequently, a story of forbidden passion, hatred, and jealousy unfolds.
For, in relinquishing, a mother feels strong and liberal; and in guild she finds the motivation to right wrong. Women throughout time have been compelled to cope with the remonstrances of motherhood along with society’s anticipations Morrison’s authorship elucidates the conditions of motherhood showing how black women’s existence is warped by severing conditions of slavery. In this novel, it becomes apparent how in a patriarchal society a woman can feel guilty when choosing interests, career and self-development before motherhood. The sacrifice that has to be made by a mother is evident and natural, but equality in a relationship means shared responsibility and with that, the sacrifices are less on both part. Although motherhood can be a wonderful experience many women fear it in view of the tamming of the other and the obligation that eventually lies on the mother.
three years by promising to marry one of them upon her completion of a burial
disowned, because she chose not to say anything. The two ungrateful daughters contempt and slowly
women to be married, married, and widowed. In the state of marriage, women were forced to be the
The topic of this essay is to discuss who is to blame for the outcome of Cheryl’s life. Cheryl made many bad choices in her life. First, she chose to be an alcoholic. It was not the alcohol’s fault, but hers for going to parties and bars to drink the alcohol. Second, she chose to stay in a relationship with Mark. Mark made her life miserable even though she loved him and she did not leave him as she could have. Third, she could have prevented the marriage between April and Bob by convincing April not to marry him. This would have allowed April to stay in Winnipeg to keep an eye on her. For these reasons, Cheryl is to blame for the outcome of her life because of her choices.
found her and brought her to a church sanctuary so that they could have a legal marriage, in which they later did. Shakespeare
Her thoughts and decisions are anything but just and ethically correct. She has not been fully experiencing the joy that marriage should have brought. She felt the death of her husband as the beginging of her new world. Her dream and excitement of entering
He refers the marriage as him purchasing her. He thinks the marriage was just a transaction and that she was just bought by him.
happen for her, he did not change the way he needed to and with that
When a man and a woman marry each other, it is their utmost wish to
I personally believe that this single action would bree the curse that Celie had put upon Mr.(Albert) due to the fact he had made up his wrong doings and saved their livelihoods and lives in the states. Without these very necessary things their lives wouldn't be the same. It also shows that he has moved up from his place of despair and drunkenness to help those who once cared for him and he has cared for thus showing he has changed in character and as man. He develops from the man who simply to Celie because she would make a good into the man who has learned to value their friendship as well as her livelihood and it is very important and righteous that he stood up to the immigration officer. He realizes that women are more than sexual objects