knowing that I will not walk this path much longer

what lies ahead of me,

I don’t know.

but I welcome the new

and ponder the old

as I walk down this familiar path

with its familiar trees

and familiar faces

one last time.

I can see parallels between her character and others that we have studied this semester.  Celie also struck me as  person who did not know where she belonged or how to gain what she really wanted.  both characters finally find their paththat they are supposed to be on and take off down it to another adventure. 

A pretty major difference between these two characters though is how they live their lives.  Celie was oppressed throughout her life but it seems that Anaiis is almost the opposite.  she has a very laid back husband who basically lets her do whatever she wants.  Neither of the husband figures in these stories seem to understand their wives though which is another similarity.

has not been in vain

every challenge that has been met

has made me stronger

every year that went by

good or bad,

has made me who I am

I can finally see the end

it’s almost over.

everything went smoothly though and I enjoyed the week even though it kept me from getting much of anything done on the side.  I feel like it was a good journey that had to be completed whether I liked it or not.  This is like most other journeys that we take in our lives.  we dont always have a choice in the matter, some journeys are just thrown on us and we must accept.

But am I so strange?

are you strange?

The idea that queer theory relates to feminism was pretty easy for me to understand as both deal with the problems of an underpriviledged minority.  however as we looked more at queer theory the differences became much more apparent as we found that it is more all encompasing than stricly feminism is and that it is structured differently. 

The idea that people could be identified as queer in the true meaning by just looking at the activities that they participate in and the social rules that they do not follow was quite interesting.  when we discussed in class something that we do or had done in the past that was different than the norm it was easy to see why queer theory was so all encompasing because it really means anything that is strange or different from the norm.

with only an unknown fate

to keep you going

where will it lead you this time

when will the journy begin?

Celie is forced into her journey through many various circumstances, most of which were very unpleasant.  for a long time Celie finds that she is unable to fight and refuses to cross the threshold into her real journey of escaping from Mr’s company.  It is only through help from the outside which comes in the form of shug avery that Celie’s quest slowly begins to move along. 

Shug teaches Celie many things and Celie teaches Shug as well about being a homebody.  The scene at the dinner table is the true battle for Celie as she must finally stand up for herself and fight her way out of the situation that she has been put in.  after this when Celie leaves she enters a new world and must learn how to survive and master this new world which is very different from her previous one.