Based on my former blog entries, it probably comes as no surprise that Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" is my favorite novel. Celie's revelations about spirituality really resonate with me. In fact, reading the book and taking in her perspective has completely altered the way I view the world around me. Through the help of Celie's confidant and Lover Shug Avery, Celie learns to appreciate and connect with the beauty she is surrounded by. This beauty is rooted in nature, as in mother nature and human nature.
However, this specific quote comes into the story long before her spiritual revelations. Even though she does not broadly believe that all living things are connected, she has already found a (for lack of a better word) bond with nature. well...trees at least. That kinship she forms with trees is re-visited throughout the entire novel. At every point of her story arch, trees are the thing Walker use to demonstrate Celie's growth and opinions on life.
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