Essay On Relationships In The Color Purple And Sula

Relationships in The Color Purple and Sula playing a huge role on affecting the characters of the two novels. The major theme that I am going to focus on in my arguments is the relationship. Good and evil relationships are going to be the points in how powerful relationships can be effecting our life. The reasons that made the characters changed behaviors, and how these relationships have positive and negative power on individuals. The effectiveness of Celie 's relationships in The Color Purple is obvious. The relationship of Celie and Shug have helped them both changing themselves to be better individuals. Later in this book we see how Shug affected Celie to improve herself to an independent strong woman, and while we see this …show more content…
She had played an important role in the development of Celie 's life. Nettie did not spend so much time with her sister when they were young, but she kept writing letters and send them to her when she was away from home, she never stopped even though she did not receive anything back from her for too long. As growing up, Celie is the uneducated and the unattractive girl, unlike her younger sister Nettie who is smart and beautiful. Celie was treated badly, she left school after she became pregnant at a young age. Celie did all that to protect her sister so she can have a better life. As a result, Nettie feels satisfied with her life, even though she did not have relationships with men and was not a married person for almost all of this novel, because she learned to be an independent woman and never thought of her own worth by depending to men. When Nettie finally felt that she is completed, she decided to marry the man she has met in Africa, and now she is happy with him. In the novel The Color Purple we can see both good and evil relationships through all the book from the beginning to the end, but the good relationships are usually the ones we see more often than the evil ones. However, in Sula is more likely all we see are the evil relationships. Though, both of the novels have pretty much similar messages, both talk about the suffers of black communities and their struggles at …show more content…
The book show us how the relationship with the society can affect the individuals in the novel with their relationships with each others. the community they were live in has to do with the evilness in their personalities. The racism in the slavery period effected the black communities, that is why we see the evilness in some of the personalities. The role of the parents is important in the novel of Sula. The power of the relationship between the parents and the children, development their children has a lot to do with their behavior when they grow up. Now let us look at the relationship between Sula and Nel, the relationship they had with their parents reflected who they are now. Their friendship showed how they are both complete each other 's life from the lack of their relationship with their parents, Sula found what she did not have in her relationship with her parents in Nel just like what Nel found in