Walker represented the act of sisterhood as one of her many themes throughout the novel, The Color Purple. In which, she uses the term “sisterhood” to illustrate strengthen, courage, and guidance among the characters.
The story forms around a then 14-year-old teenage, whose name is Celie. Throughout the novel, Walker takes us the readers on journey of Celie’s transformations from being deprived of self-confidence to being an assertive drive in this novel. In the process of her transformation, she is supported by the relationships she has develop with other woman. For example, her sister Nettie, her stepdaughter in-law Sofia, and a friend of the family Shug Avery. Each one of these individuals provides powerful meaning of what it is to be
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She cooks, cleans, and endures Mr__’s pleasures. When Nettie ran away from home, she comes to stay with Celie, in which she helps her with the chores, her studies, and her reading skills. After, being kicked out after a failed rape attempt, Nettie promised to write letters to her sister despite Mr__ promising Celie would never hear from her again. Throughout the novel, Nettie continued to write a series of letter to Celie. These letters are the best representation of the relationship between Celie and Nettie because they continued to keep in touch. These letters gave Celie hope, something she never had before. Even when faced unbearably doubt whether or not her letter where reaching Celie, Nettie kept writing “Now I only write at Christmas and Easter hoping my letter get lost among the Christmas and Easter greetings, or that Albert get the holiday spirit and have pity on us.” (Walker. 182). They wrote passionately about their life journeys, experiences, and encounters. It was in these letters that Celie learned that were children were being raised by Nettie and her stepfather is not her stepfather after all. She also learned about her biological father, who was a businessman and was killed because of his