In Celie’s letters to God, she shows some pretty interesting traits. For example, when she writes:
“Harpo no better at fighting his daddy back than me... Harpo nearly as big as his daddy. He strong in body but weak in will. He scared” (pg. 27, The Color Purple)
If nothing else, it show that Celie herself is terrified of her husband, just as her husband’s children are. She scared to the point that she wishes that Harpo, her son-in-law, or Harpo’s wife Sofia would stand up to Mr._____. So that she can escape him and his beatings. She wishes this until Shug Avery shows up. Shug, who has a certain power over Mr._____, shows up at the house, sick out of her mind. As Celie nurses her back to health, they become very good friends. And as Shug learned of the life Celie lead, she got angrier and angrier and told Mr._____ that is he beat Celie again he’d have Shug Avery to answer to. And, Mr._____, being the coward he is, backed off.
Well, Celie seems to see God as someone to confide in, a confidant, someone to tell absolutely everything to, down to the nitty gritty details. This is shown on page 49 when she says:
“Dear God, They have made three babies together but he squeamish about giving her a bath”. She also shows this almost every other page when she says “Dear God”. But that first quote especially shows that she sees God as someone that can be trusted, because she says what she’s thinking, even though she can’t say it to anyone else. However, on page 192, Celie says:
“I don’t write to God no more.... What happen... ast Shug.... What God do for me? I ast”
When I read this, I was amazed. It seemed that our beloved main character had lost her faith in one of the few things she still had faith in. But upon reading further, I began to realize that she hadn’t lost faith in her God, she had simply begun to widen her perspective of him, realizing that he wasn’t a white man in the sky, realizing that he was everything and everyone.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Figuring The Factors
I don’t find any of these arguments to be particularly persuasive. I found in a few that they tended to go off on a tangent and that this tangent wasn’t particularly on-topic. For example, in “The Specialization Trade-off”, Shulman begins by speaking about how Ivy-League Colleges represent, and I quote, “liquid pools of opportunity... students who get into these schools graduate at higher rates and have clear advantages over peers in getting jobs” yet he ends his piece by saying this: “these schools should realize that they are not merely reflecting the fact that we are a “sports crazy culture.” They are helping to make it so. “. Consequently, when I read this piece for the first time I did a double take, thinking: Wait, What? How did we end up on sports culture?! So, as you can probably imagine, I had to read it through once or twice more.
Now, in the sense of good sport, I’ll share with you one of the articles I found interesting, though I probably shouldn’t claim it to be the one I found most persuasive. In this piece, “Skip the Admissions Game” by Kevin Carey, he speaks of Ivy-League schools only representing an advantage for the few students who have the test scores and money to pay for them. On the other hand, if you can’t, things are more difficult.
“If you're among the small handful of students who have stellar SAT scores and parents with several hundred thousand dollars to spend, you should seriously consider going to an elite college or university...If, on the other hand, you're not one of those people -- and the odds are very high that you're not -- your decision-making will be somewhat more complicated.”
He continues to shed light on the shadows that have been obscuring smaller and lesser known colleges as being as good - if not better - than Ivy league schools BECAUSE they aren’t being paid the huge tuition fees and the teachers are more likely to be able to handle smaller classes at schools smaller than ones in the Ivy League, so it logically follows that they will be able to teach better if they can handle their students better.
Overall, I’m not too sure what to think about these articles. I have seen some interesting points, such as the ones made by Carey, and some points that I can’t makes sense of, such as the one written by Mr. Shulman.
Now, in the sense of good sport, I’ll share with you one of the articles I found interesting, though I probably shouldn’t claim it to be the one I found most persuasive. In this piece, “Skip the Admissions Game” by Kevin Carey, he speaks of Ivy-League schools only representing an advantage for the few students who have the test scores and money to pay for them. On the other hand, if you can’t, things are more difficult.
“If you're among the small handful of students who have stellar SAT scores and parents with several hundred thousand dollars to spend, you should seriously consider going to an elite college or university...If, on the other hand, you're not one of those people -- and the odds are very high that you're not -- your decision-making will be somewhat more complicated.”
He continues to shed light on the shadows that have been obscuring smaller and lesser known colleges as being as good - if not better - than Ivy league schools BECAUSE they aren’t being paid the huge tuition fees and the teachers are more likely to be able to handle smaller classes at schools smaller than ones in the Ivy League, so it logically follows that they will be able to teach better if they can handle their students better.
Overall, I’m not too sure what to think about these articles. I have seen some interesting points, such as the ones made by Carey, and some points that I can’t makes sense of, such as the one written by Mr. Shulman.
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