Character Thursday is a weekly meme that requires you to
post on every Thursday, your character choice from the book you are reading or
you have finished with. It can be the protagonist or the antagonist, characters
that you love the most or hate the most. You can pick any book of any genre as
you like. Please feel free to grab the button below and paste it in your post.
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this post.
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Mr. _____ (Albert)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
You might be wondering, why I didn’t mention the actual name
of my Character Thursday. Well, that is how Alice Walker wrote about this
character from the perspective of Celie, the main female character of
this book. From the first time Mr. _____ appeared, I have already disliked him.
When he came to Celie’s house at the first time, it seemed that he was just
looking for a woman for his household, not for his wife. He actually picked
Nettie for his wife, however after Nettie run away, he must satisfied himself
with Celie. So from the beginning, it’s neither love nor attraction.
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| Danny Glover as Albert (Mr. _____) |
Being a husband, Mr. _____ was far from ideal. He often beats Celie even when Celie did nothing. He was harsh in bed, and never treated Celie as a wife nor a woman. And the worst of it, he was openly having an affair with his lover, Shug Avery, without hiding the fact from Celie. For Mr. _____ Celie was just someone to look after the children and do the household. That’s all. Why did he do that? I presumed that it was the habit or the culture among people at that time. Or perhaps, being a minority, Mr. ____ (and other African-American at that time) was used to be under oppression of white people, so that they need a kind of impingement from the feeling of their inferiority. They found a need to show someone (or themselves) that they still have the control over their life. So, Mr. _____ beat and did rude things to Celie, who (he thought) did not have the power to fight.
However, Mr. _____ has wrongly judged Celie. His wife turned
out to be a brave and strong woman—thanks to the love she had and received. With the help of
her best friend, Celie slowly built her own life. She moved from Mr. _____
house and started her sewing business. I think the fact that Celie had the courage
to leave him, quite struck Mr. _____. And on this point, he changed for the
better. He started to contemplate about his life, and here is his conclusion:
“I think us here to
wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things
and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by
accidents. But you never know nothing more about the big things that you start
out with. The more I wonder, the morel love.”
I know it’s quite confusing if you haven’t read the whole
story, but what Mr. _____ (or we can call him ‘Albert’ now—the name which Celie
had finally the courage to mention after her ‘rise’) wanted to say is, that after
Celie left, he done a review of his own life, and finally decided to rebuilt it
after he learned about love. After the transformation, Albert treated Celie as
a friend, they could speak and even sew together for hours. Albert also offered
Celie to renew their marriage.
So, Celie’s transformation actually brought another
transformation in Albert too. What a wonderful character we have here, but what
about you, who’s your Character Thursday for this week?
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