Blog 4

Blog 4: Character - Nettie ----- Celie and Nettie are sisters and that is about where their similarities end. Nettie seems to have gotten the good luck in life and Celie received all of the bad. Nettie actually lives with Celie's children and their adoptive parents. She travels with them to Africa to do missions work. Even though it is hard work and she is raising the children in a different culture, Nettie is still blessed beyond belief when compared to Celie's life. Nettie is strong-willed and shows her strength throughout her letters to Celie. She writes to Celie, even when she doesn't receive responses for years. She clings to the hope that her sister is alive and doing well. I think if she knew what Celie had to go through, Nettie would have come back right away. Nettie lives through the turmoil in Africa and the death of the children's adoptive mother. She then marries Samuel, the children's adoptive father. Nettie has no reason not to trust men, she was never abused as Celie was. When the two reunite at the end of the book it is like the ends of a spectrum coming back together. Two sisters torn apart at a young age, brought back together after lifetimes of suffering, pain, love, and remorse. Nettie's strength and her letters to Celie seem to be what turned Celie's life around. I think Nettie was the symbol of strength in this book.