{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30408197","dateCreated":"1290042226","smartDate":"Nov 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"memdavis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/memdavis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1274161967\/memdavis-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/memdavis.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30408197"},"dateDigested":1532390001,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"History: Connections to Slavery","description":"How are Celie\u2019s letters to God similar to the African-American slave narratives collected in the 1930s? How are they different?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"30408159","dateCreated":"1290042200","smartDate":"Nov 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"memdavis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/memdavis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1274161967\/memdavis-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/memdavis.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30408159"},"dateDigested":1532390001,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Character Analysis: Sofia","description":"What role do you think Sofia plays in the novel? Describe her character and how she contributes to the themes in the book.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"30408119","dateCreated":"1290042170","smartDate":"Nov 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"memdavis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/memdavis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1274161967\/memdavis-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/memdavis.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30408119"},"dateDigested":1532390001,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Relationships: Men","description":"How would you describe the relationship between Mr. and his father, and the relationship between Harpo and Mr. <\/u>?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30883887","body":"The sons are not only obedient, they are intimidated by their fathers. There is one great exception, and that occurs after Celie leaves Mr.__ and Harpo takes care of him and his evolved alcoholism.","dateCreated":"1291067691","smartDate":"Nov 29, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"memdavis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/memdavis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1274161967\/memdavis-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"30408051","dateCreated":"1290042124","smartDate":"Nov 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"memdavis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/memdavis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1274161967\/memdavis-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/memdavis.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30408051"},"dateDigested":1532390001,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Quotation: God","description":"Explain your thoughts about the meaning of this:
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\n"Well, us talk and talk about God, but I\u2019m still adrift. Trying to chase that old white man out of my head. I been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not the color purple (where it come from?). . . ."","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30408309","body":"Sparknotes contributes this:
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\n"In the seventy-third letter of the novel, Celie recalls for Nettie this conversation with Shug. Celie has told Shug that she has stopped writing to God altogether. In response, Shug tries to help Celie develop a new understanding of God, which involves sidelining Celie\u2019s notion of a God who is white and male and with whom she feels she has nothing in common. Shug gently suggests that instead of being mad at God for his injustice, Celie should reimagine God as a figure or entity with which she can more closely connect. Just because Celie\u2019s image of an archetypal old, bearded white man will no longer do, Shug argues, Celie does not need to reject God altogether. Shug urges Celie to be creative and to see the presence of God in everything and everyone, as a sort of disembodied \u201cit\u201d with no race or gender. Shug\u2019s lesson is part of a greater lesson that argues for reimagining one\u2019s oppressors rather than rejecting them. Shug shows Celie that she does not need to reject men altogether. She explains that Celie can have men as friends and that her life does not need to revolve around men exclusively. Instead of dismissing men and God, Shug changes the power dynamic by reimagining them."","dateCreated":"1290042324","smartDate":"Nov 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"memdavis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/memdavis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1274161967\/memdavis-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"30407943","dateCreated":"1290042020","smartDate":"Nov 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"memdavis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/memdavis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1274161967\/memdavis-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/memdavis.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30407943"},"dateDigested":1532390001,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Theme: Female relationships","description":"Despite Shug's ill treatment of her, why is Celie so admiring of Shug in letters 22-27? What does she represent to Celie and\/or what needs does she fulfill for Celie?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30883717","body":"Shug represents many things: the hope of female happiness rather than oppression, the beauty that a female can exude, and the power to stand up to a man (namely, her husband).","dateCreated":"1291067481","smartDate":"Nov 29, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"memdavis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/memdavis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1274161967\/memdavis-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"30407861","dateCreated":"1290041952","smartDate":"Nov 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"memdavis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/memdavis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1274161967\/memdavis-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/memdavis.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30407861"},"dateDigested":1532390002,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Motif: Letters","description":"How do Nettie's letters communicate to Celie a sense of ethnic pride?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30408401","body":"Sparknotes contributes this:
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\n"Walker uses the novel\u2019s epistolary (letter-writing) form to emphasize the power of communication. Celie writes letters to God, and Nettie writes letters to Celie. Both sisters gain strength from their letter writing, but they are saved only when they receive responses to their letters. Therefore, although writing letters enables self-e-xpression and confession, it requires a willing audience. When Celie never responds to Nettie\u2019s letters, Nettie feels lost because Celie is her only audience. Nettie grows disillusioned with her missionary work because the imperialists will not listen to her and because the Olinka villagers are stubborn. Only after Nettie returns home to Celie, an audience guaranteed to listen, does she feel fulfilled and freed."","dateCreated":"1290042396","smartDate":"Nov 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"memdavis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/memdavis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1274161967\/memdavis-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"30883599","body":"The Olinka also provide an image of African-American people as strong, confident leaders. They are not slaves and Nettie finds great hope in her race because of this fact.","dateCreated":"1291067349","smartDate":"Nov 29, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"memdavis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/memdavis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1274161967\/memdavis-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"30407807","dateCreated":"1290041909","smartDate":"Nov 17, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"memdavis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/memdavis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1274161967\/memdavis-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/memdavis.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30407807"},"dateDigested":1532390002,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Symbol: Sewing","description":"How does sewing (quilts, clothes, etc.) demonstrate the evolution of Celie's character?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30883823","body":"She goes from making curtains for a friend to sewing pants for both sexes as a past-time and then eventually as a business which secures her freedom.
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\nIt is interesting that her main sewing focus is pants, as that time pants were only worn by men. This is a clear role reversal that the author wants to highlight in Celie's realization that she can do so many things.","dateCreated":"1291067598","smartDate":"Nov 29, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"memdavis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/memdavis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1274161967\/memdavis-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}