Why is movie called The Color Purple?

Why is movie called The Color Purple?

One important symbol present in both the film and novel is the color purple. This color represents all the good things that are in the world. At the beginning of the book and film, Celie has no sense of the color purple. She said, “I never truly notice nothing God make.

What happened to Nettie in The Color Purple?

She ends up going to Africa with them as a missionary. In Africa, Nettie is both admired (as a teacher and missionary) and despised (because she is unmarried and childless).

Why was the book The Color Purple banned?

In 1984, the book was challenged in a high school honors class in Oakland, California due to the work’s “sexual and social explicitness” and its “troubling ideas about race relations, man’s relationship to God, African history, and human sexuality.” Though it remains unclear what “social explicitness” actually means.

What is the nasty woman’s disease?

The first time the film hints at what it could have been comes as Shug, nursed back to health by Celie from her “nasty woman disease” (possibly tuberculosis), suddenly turns the spotlight of attention on the pitifully self-effacing Celie by singing “Sister,” a blues number in her honor, at Harpo’s juke joint.

Why does Harpo eating so much?

Sofia is perplexed as to why Harpo is eating so much. Harpo’s scenes of overeating are another of the novel’s very few comedic moments. But, of course, Harpo’s eating is motivated by a deep uneasiness, and by a fear that he is not strong enough, not “man” enough, not big enough to beat and control his wife.

Why did Albert keep Nettie’s letters from Celie?

Albert was being vindictive. He hid the letters because he had never forgiven her for rebuffing his advances long before. Thus, he deliberately punished her by keeping the letters.

What is Shug’s real name?

Slender, attractive actress Margaret Avery, spellbinding in her role of Shug in Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple (1985), is certainly no “one-hit wonder”.

What does Celie do when she wants to talk to God?

Celie tells Shug that she no longer writes to God—she writes to Nettie. This letter is addressed to Nettie. Celie says that God would never listen to a poor black woman—that God has not listened to her throughout her life. Thus she desires to write to someone, like Nettie, who might actually one day read her letters.

Why does Corrine ask Nettie to stop wearing her clothes and to start addressing her and Samuel as if she were their sister?

Why does Corrine ask Nettie to stop wearing her clothes and to start addressing her and Samuel as if she were their sister? Corrine wants it made clear to the Olinka people that she alone is Samuel’s wife and the mother of the children. After her husband dies, Tashi’s mother is made an honorary man.

Why was Nettie an object of pity?

Tashi’s father tells Nettie that she is an “object of pity” because she has an education and has no man that she has married or anyone that is looking after her.

What is the plan for getting Sofia out of jail?

The plan to get Sofia out of jail was to put a guise that Sofia should be released in order for justice to be enacted in a different way, indicating violence, or it would be worse than prison for her to work for a white woman.

What is Sofia’s job in jail?

Sofia is made to clean and work in the laundry while in prison.

What does Grady call Shug?

Grady calls Shug “Mama” and is dependent on her for money and things as if she were his mother.

What are Celie’s fears?

She doesn’t want to hurt her mother, and, in addition, we see that Celie fears that Fonso will kill this second baby, just as he did the first one. She doesn’t want to burden her mother, as she is dying, with this terrible knowledge.