“I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.”(Walker, 210); based on those words said by Celie it can be inferred that she is illustrated in The Color Purple by Alice Walker as passive, since she often allows people to take advantage of her hence, her quote making a reference to how her husband calls her “poor, black, and ugly...” Secondly, she is also a firm believer, taking into consideration that she is constantly writing letters addressed to God throughout the book. Finally, she is also a person of great character, as she withstood all her trials and tribulations with her integrity intact.
To begin, The Color Purple is a book relatable to many women that have been also abused, and or mistreated by their husbands. It starts off by stating that Celie at age fourteen had been sexually abused by her father thus, her two “miscarriages” which she believes is a lie her father formulated in order to justify his murder of the children. Celie, as a passive character keeps everything to herself and tries to keep a “normal” life; her mother died, and now she is …show more content…
She let men make her feel like she was nothing and she believed the lies everyone told her about her appearance. Celie is also a believer in God because she always wrote letters to God about her life almost as if God was her best friend whom she can always tell her life problems to. Celie is also a person with a great character. As Walter Anderson said “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.” And that's what Celie did. She did not stay depressed but instead chose to have a positive response in her life
To begin, The Color Purple is a book relatable to many women that have been also abused, and or mistreated by their husbands. It starts off by stating that Celie at age fourteen had been sexually abused by her father thus, her two “miscarriages” which she believes is a lie her father formulated in order to justify his murder of the children. Celie, as a passive character keeps everything to herself and tries to keep a “normal” life; her mother died, and now she is …show more content…
She let men make her feel like she was nothing and she believed the lies everyone told her about her appearance. Celie is also a believer in God because she always wrote letters to God about her life almost as if God was her best friend whom she can always tell her life problems to. Celie is also a person with a great character. As Walter Anderson said “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.” And that's what Celie did. She did not stay depressed but instead chose to have a positive response in her life