How has the view of Celie changed through out the story? How has it effected the story?
Celie was one to do what she was told whenever someone demanded it. She was the person most people would count on for a chore. She dealt with doing demands for her own family and even being raped by her own so called father. Her mother was crazy and didn't have a clue on what was going on and eventually she wasn't around to do anything at all about it. Celie couldn't do anything about it because she was afraid. She knew she would get beat and raped more. She knew she had to face the scary part and look at her "father" do those things to her. He forced her to marry someone she didn't know or love. Arthur took over Celie at that point and treated her the same as her non-biological father. Although she wasn't raped, she still had to lay there and not actually be loved. He beat her also and controlled what she did and how she dressed. Always had to wear dresses and couldn't do anything herself. It was like she was a child to him, but something came up in the novel that was absolutely surprising. "It's time to leave you and enter into the Creation" (Walker 199). Those words from Celie put me in shock. She started standing up for herself and believing in herself to demand what she wants and not what other people want. She cusses and yells at Arthur and tells him she will leave. Celie's view changed dramatically with in the instant of a page and now she will love her own life and start her own pants company. It effects everything about her life and where she will be going with in the next chapters and she will end up as a happy person as I view it.
Samantha Shipley
ReplyDeleteCelie has gone through so much in her lifetime, and I agree with your point that she was treated like a child; however, wasn't she? It is as if she was forced to grow up so quickly, and finally matured when she stood up for herself and how she most rightfully deserved to be treated.