“Just think about it, Why would Alice Walker mention the idea of women being oppressed both in America and Africa. Women are exploited very seriously, especially Celie, who is married off to Albert to look after his children, look after the farm and is also meant to accept Albert’s affair with Shug Avery which extends even to him sleeping with her under the same roof. Physical violence also seems to be a common occurrence, even in relationships which are quite loving, like that between Harpo and his wife Sofia. He beats her because “the woman s’pose to mind.” It is a respectable thing for a man to do to his wife, in his view. With all of these parts of the novel set on explaining the idea of feminism on the book you still claim that the whole book is about religion?” said Kalkidan.
“No the novel clearly depicts Celie’s perspective on religion and how it clearly changes over the course of the book. For instance at first, she is a staunch member of the church and continues to be so, working as hard there as she does for Mr. and his children. Her letters are addressed to God and she says “As long as I can spell G-O-D I got somebody along. She looks to God as a support and a help although in
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The racket kept going one determined to prove his/her point one after the other. I listened for a while thinking about a logical explanation I could give. The explanations you both gave are right and serve as the best examples of the topics you both think is the idea of the book but both of you are right. Alice Walker wrote that book trying to tell people what she is thinking and you cannot say the whole book is about one specific topic because a person can have a lot of different thoughts. That was my argument. I couldn’t think of anything else to say. I drifted the topic to the physics homework I had to help them do. I gave them hints on how to do the questions because we covered this portion before. We finished our session by going over the questions