Directions: If you would like to respond to this prompt as one of your blog posts, you need to give a detailed, text-oriented response to at least three of the questions below. Be sure to number them. Remember, you may also respond and build on others’ comments.
1. Explain the character of Shug Avery. What does Celie learn from her?
2. Why does the plot end as a comedy?
3. What roles do women occupy in the novel, both black and white? What measure of freedom do women enjoy in these roles?
4. Consider the epistolary (letter) form of the novel. What benefits derive from this form for the telling of the story? What drawbacks does it have?
5. List, analyze, and evaluate the various gender crossings in the novel.
6. Explain the reunions that take place at the end of the novel. Is there anything that is not reconciled or re-united? Explain your answer.
7. The main subplot revolves around Nettie in Africa . How does this relate to and impact the main plot of Celie?
Kristi Etzel
ReplyDelete1. Celie looks up to Shug Avery. Shug Avery is Celie’s idea of I very classy woman that is successful. Shug Avery is a talented woman that can’t commit to one person for very long.
3. Women in the novel are the wives. They take care of the house and kids. They can’t really do much because their husbands have to approve of what they do.
4. The letter format is nice in some ways because it is personalized because it shows Celie writing to God and her sister. In some ways it isn’t the best because we don’t know times and what happens in between letters.
I agree with your answer to #4 Kristi
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Dolores Flores;
ReplyDelete1. Shug Avery is a strong and independent woman. She doesn’t let anyone take control of what she does. She makes her own decisions and to risks to get where she’s at. Celie learned what love is from Shug and to control her own life. Shug was the reason Celie even left Albert in the first place. If it wasn’t for Shug saying “your coming with me to Tennessee” I guarantee Celie would still be at Alberts house. Shug gave Celie the push she needed to be on her own. Celie learned to be on her own to make her own living and most importantly not to let a man control your life.
3. The role that woman occupy in the novel in being the housewife. In this role woman weren’t expected to have “jobs”. Their responsibilities were to take care of children, cook and keep a house clean. A measure of freedom that they received was deciding what they were going to cooking not having to leave their house to work. And having their job be spending time with their children. Besides Albert what make Celie work in the field for him he was just mean.
4. The benefits of having the novel be in epistolary form is that it makes it seem like a shorter and easier read then by going by chapter. A drawback is that it moves fast. It may not seem like years have gone by since when we thing of an epistolary we usually think of diary entrees. Diary entrees are an everyday thing to most people it makes the novel seem to be going day by day.
Kristi I agree to your answer to number 1
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