The Color Purple Nettie Harris Comparison

The Character Beyond Compare

(The Discussion of the Best Character in The Color Purple)

The film, The Color Purple has very many different scenes that can have a very strong impact on someone. Within those scenes are multiple characters that portray separate fillings on the viewer. But, most of all, some of the characters are very important regarding the theme, setting and plot of the movie. One of the single most important characters in this movie that makes a very large difference on the way the movie is looked at in a whole is Nettie Harris. My favorite character in The Color Purple is Nettie Harris for numerous reasons.

To start off her good deeds, Nettie becomes Celia’s best friend as well as her sister and only helps her through each day in The Color Purple. Celia was having a hard time when Nettie walks into her life. They become best friends and even though Celia can’t go to school, Nettie plans to teach her all she learns every day. One of which was how to spell, read and write. There were times when Nettie would write words on wax paper and tape them all over and Celia would spell them out to Nettie. Nettie was an awesome teacher and she only wanted Celia to have as much knowledge as she did. She didn’t have to do what she did for Celia but she did it

out of impulse, to help her life be better.
Secondly, in The Color Purple Nettie writes to Celia every single day for a long time, without knowing if she’s receiving them and understanding that there is a chance she will never get a letter from Celia.

This simple daily task must have been very difficult for Nettie. For all she knew, she could have been sending the letters to the wrong person by accident. Also, she could almost guarantee that Mister was keeping the letters from Celia, to keep her from being distracted. If Nettie was as constants as she seems that is a very strong quality of hers. Anyone with that consistency should be rewarded and greatly loved. That is a very large reason why Nettie is my very favorite character in The Color

Purple.
Last but certainly not least, in The Color Purple, Nettie finds Celia’s children and raises them in Africa. Celia never really got to meet her children, she only got to name them and hold them for a single minute before Mister stole them away and sold them off. Therefore, it was very meaningful when Celia found out that Nettie had been the one to raise her children. And towards the end of the movie, you get to see Celia meet her sister again, just as she promised when they were kids, “only death can keep us apart,” Not only did she meet Nettie, she met her daughter Olivia, her son Adam and his wife. A sister who is that loving and thoughtful is a sister whose love is bigger than imaginable. Nettie was truly a remarkable character.
In conclusion, my favorite character in The Color Purple is Nettie Harris for numerous reasons. One being that she took the time and effort to teach her sister, Celia how to read and write to help her later on in her life. Secondly, she took time out of her day, every day, to write a letter to Celia. Though she didn’t know if Celia was getting them or if Mister was keeping them from her. That was pure dedication. And Nettie went to the extent to locate and raise her sister’s children, who were taken away at birth. Then, to wrap up all the amazing things Nettie had done, she brought Olivia; Celia’s daughter, Adam; her son, and his wife back from Africa to meet there mother. It is very obvious that Nettie Harris is the absolute all around character in The Color Purple.