Color Purple Shag Quotes
In “The Color Purple”, Shug Avery has a positive impact on Celie. This empowers Celie to become independent and confident. The author describes the positive impacts when Shug meets Celie during her illness and develops a strong friendship with her. Shug is an independent and strong woman. These are two qualities Celie does not posses. However, when Shug is introduced in the novel, she influences Celie to become a more independent woman. Shug helps Celie with her mental problems, which has been an issue since her early childhood. She was told she was ugly as expressed in the quote “She ugly. He say” (Walker, pg. 10). Shug also had some problems with her appearance and was told she was a prostitute by the preacher. This is expressed in the quote;
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“He talk bout a strumpet in short skirts, smoking cigarettes, drinking gin. Singing for money and taking other women mens. Talk bout slut, hussy, heifer, and streetcleaner” (Walker, pg. 42). Based on same experience Shug teaches Celie to realise herself as an independent and confident Woman. An example is when Shug teaches Celie to be able to pleasure herself and realise the true feeling of pleasure and not abuse which Celie is used too. “Listen, she say, right down there in your pussy is a little button that gits real hot when you do you know what with somebody. It get hotter and hotter and then it met. That the good part. But other parts good too, she say. Lot of sucking go on, here and there, she say. Lot of finger and tongue work.” (Walker, pg. 74, l. 15). Walker emphasizes Celie's feelings towards Shug, which develop when the women spend more time together and Shug influences Celie. She realises actual love and develops a sexual lust towards Shug as well as expressed in the quote; “It warm and cushiony, and I feel like Shug’s big tits sorta flop over my arms like suds. It feel like heaven is what it feel like, not like sleeping negative effect by making her daughter miserable by strongly criticizing her appearance and lifestyle.
In conclusion, both Novels express how women have a positive or negative influence on one another. In “The Joy Luck Club” it relates to the values of a family and how women are told to raise the children in a strict way. Conversely, In “The Color Purple” it relates to how society expects the roles in relationships and how women find comfort and support in each other.
“How can you criticize a gift?” I protested.
I was deeply wounded. “He gave me this from his heart” (Amy Tan, pg. 163). Waverly and Lindo Jong in ‘The Color Purple’ have a negative relationship. Lindo pressures her daughter so much, that eventually Waverly isn’t just hurt by her mother but eventually really develops hate for her mother. The quote above shows Waverly confronting her mother after Waverly received a gift from her fiancé, Rich, and all Lindo does is criticize it. Unlike the relationship between Suyuan and Jing-Mei Woo, Lindo’s constant criticism is not really a display of love and faith in her daughter, but really she is constantly disappointed in her. Lindo has extremely high expectations and a very demanding mother. Waverly grows up feeling miserable, and even when she starts her own life, her mother still has a way of putting her down. Waverly describes her mother as a horse, and herself as a rabbit. “And that’s what she is. A horse, born in 1918, destined to obstinate and frank to the point of tactlessness. She and I made a bad combination, because I’m a Rabbit, born in 1951, supposedly sensitive, with tendencies toward being thin-skinned and skittery at the first sight criticism.” [Amy Tan, pg. 161]. Lindo also has problems with Waverly’s appearance, she criticizes her looks constantly, furthermore, Lindo shows no interest in understanding Waverly and when Waverly brings up her fiancé Rich, Lindo always finds a way to change the
subject. Lindo’s influence on her daughter is negative throughout the whole novel, because all she is ever really doing is making her feel miserable.
In conclusion, the most obvious relationships in ‘The Joy Luck Club’ and in ‘The Color Purple’ are between women and all have great influences on one another, ether positive or negative. Amy Tan’s ‘The Joy Luck Club’ mainly focuses on family values and tradition whilst ‘The Color Purple’ really relates to changes in values and personality.
“He talk bout a strumpet in short skirts, smoking cigarettes, drinking gin. Singing for money and taking other women mens. Talk bout slut, hussy, heifer, and streetcleaner” (Walker, pg. 42). Based on same experience Shug teaches Celie to realise herself as an independent and confident Woman. An example is when Shug teaches Celie to be able to pleasure herself and realise the true feeling of pleasure and not abuse which Celie is used too. “Listen, she say, right down there in your pussy is a little button that gits real hot when you do you know what with somebody. It get hotter and hotter and then it met. That the good part. But other parts good too, she say. Lot of sucking go on, here and there, she say. Lot of finger and tongue work.” (Walker, pg. 74, l. 15). Walker emphasizes Celie's feelings towards Shug, which develop when the women spend more time together and Shug influences Celie. She realises actual love and develops a sexual lust towards Shug as well as expressed in the quote; “It warm and cushiony, and I feel like Shug’s big tits sorta flop over my arms like suds. It feel like heaven is what it feel like, not like sleeping negative effect by making her daughter miserable by strongly criticizing her appearance and lifestyle.
In conclusion, both Novels express how women have a positive or negative influence on one another. In “The Joy Luck Club” it relates to the values of a family and how women are told to raise the children in a strict way. Conversely, In “The Color Purple” it relates to how society expects the roles in relationships and how women find comfort and support in each other.
“How can you criticize a gift?” I protested.
I was deeply wounded. “He gave me this from his heart” (Amy Tan, pg. 163). Waverly and Lindo Jong in ‘The Color Purple’ have a negative relationship. Lindo pressures her daughter so much, that eventually Waverly isn’t just hurt by her mother but eventually really develops hate for her mother. The quote above shows Waverly confronting her mother after Waverly received a gift from her fiancé, Rich, and all Lindo does is criticize it. Unlike the relationship between Suyuan and Jing-Mei Woo, Lindo’s constant criticism is not really a display of love and faith in her daughter, but really she is constantly disappointed in her. Lindo has extremely high expectations and a very demanding mother. Waverly grows up feeling miserable, and even when she starts her own life, her mother still has a way of putting her down. Waverly describes her mother as a horse, and herself as a rabbit. “And that’s what she is. A horse, born in 1918, destined to obstinate and frank to the point of tactlessness. She and I made a bad combination, because I’m a Rabbit, born in 1951, supposedly sensitive, with tendencies toward being thin-skinned and skittery at the first sight criticism.” [Amy Tan, pg. 161]. Lindo also has problems with Waverly’s appearance, she criticizes her looks constantly, furthermore, Lindo shows no interest in understanding Waverly and when Waverly brings up her fiancé Rich, Lindo always finds a way to change the
subject. Lindo’s influence on her daughter is negative throughout the whole novel, because all she is ever really doing is making her feel miserable.
In conclusion, the most obvious relationships in ‘The Joy Luck Club’ and in ‘The Color Purple’ are between women and all have great influences on one another, ether positive or negative. Amy Tan’s ‘The Joy Luck Club’ mainly focuses on family values and tradition whilst ‘The Color Purple’ really relates to changes in values and personality.