Sisters in The Color Purple Essay -- Alice Walker

In The Color Purple, written by Alice Walker, Celies life was falling apart. due(p) to her step-fathers actions, she became pregnant and then quickly had her children whisked away from her. She was sent away to unite a man she didnt know, and experienced more hardships than numerous could even campaign to fathom. Thankfully, she had her dear sister, Nettie, to think of and lean on both mentally and emotionally even when she wasnt able to be with her physically. In the beginning, the girls mother was very sick. Their step-father took accommodate of the household and he began abusing Celie. Celie, being the oldest, accepted the abuse as a duty and attempted to stand her ground. She wanted to remain strong in order to insure the safety of her younger sister, Nettie. For Celie, the strength she found in enduring the abuses of her step-father remained with her throughout her life. Celie silently held her emotions inside and didn?t speak up in opposition when horrible things were goin g on all rough her. When her step-father wanted to marry her off to Mr. _____, all she could think about was Nettie?s safety, and she never said a single word against it, though she was greatly conflicted in her mind.After she had been married off to Mr. , his sisters came to visit. They liked Celie a accord saying, ?Good housekeeper, good with children, good cook. Brother couldn?t rich person do better if he tried.? They weren?t able to see all the action mechanism going on inside Celie?s head, though. She absolutely abhorred living with Mr. _____ and his dreaded children, but she had the strength she acquired from valueing Nettie, and she utilized it to suppress her emotions and in doing so, protect her well-being. Nettie was able to teach Celie any thin... ... because they had adopted Celie?s children before they had met Nettie and suspect she might have been the mother. All of this, though, was unbeknownst to Nettie.These two sisters had such an encroachment o n the paths their lives took through their relationship. They provided each other with the strength each require to trudge though the situations their lives laid before them. They taught each other many valuable life lessons and to show love to other people. Even though they were literally oceans apart, they provided each other with a support system of family and friends, and near importantly they gave each other hope. Hope for the present and hope for the future, a future together. If Celie and Nettie didn?t have the intimate relationship they did, they wouldn?t have been able to make it through the trials to finally reach the reward of a life together in the end.