Maydelin+G.

 

In the book The Color Purple by Alice Walker, one of the major themes is relationships. Relationships, are one of the most important elements in one's lives, and they are the ones that influence our life overall. The kind of relationship between two individuals, affect how they act. Some people in your life encourage you, give you advice, while others just want to mess with your feelings and your mind, and they make you feel worthless. Personally this is something that i can relate to, and I'm sure many of you can relate to this as well.

One example from the book, that relates to the theme is when Celie, the main character, goes to live with her husband, the one whom they made her get marry to. Mr. did not love her or anything, he loved Shug Avery. Since the day that Celie moved in with him, he would always make Celie feel as if she wasn't worth anything. He would never tell her nice things or touch her or anything. Instead he would always beat her. One day his son Harpo asked his daddy why he beat Celie, and he responded "cause she's my wife, plus she stubborn. All women good for-" (pg 23) This quote shows that Mr. had no affection for her. He says that basically she's only good for him to beat, that she's not good for anything else. Thanks to him, all the years that Celie lived with him, she lived terrified. She grew up scared of man, since the guy that made her think he was her father, raped her. This is why Celie was never able to defend herself from Mr. She had to obey him, or see the consequences.  To Celie's good luck, Shug Avery became part of her life. Shug Avery made Celie change into a stronger person. She did this by showing her, her affection for Celie, by loving her for who she was and always making her feel good about herself instead of ashamed of who she was and how she looked. One example that shows how she changed is when the day to afront Mr., comes. Shug is announcing that she's leaving and she's taking Celie with her. Mr. says that Celie ain't going nowhere and he tells her "I thought you was finally happy, what's wrong now?" (pg 206) That's when Celie finally speaks up and says "you a lowdown dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat i need." (pg 207) This shows the difference in her, from the beggining of the story, how she could never stand up for herself, to now that she is no longer scared of anyone. **This is** thanks to Shug Avery. For always being there for her, helping Celie in all she could. 

This theme relates to me as well. The way it relates to me is because many people in my life encourage me to live and have a succesful life, while others tell me that i shouldn't care about the future. They say that I'm young and at my age all i have to worry about is to have fun. One of the persons who i called my best friend, she would always tell me that i shouldn't worry about anything. For example one day i was talking to her on the phone, and she asked me if I wanted to go to a hookie with her. I don't know how she did it but she convinced me to go. I was so stupid and I decided to go just because I wanted to try something new. At the hookie they were giving alcoholic beverages, I know better and i didn't accept any of their drinks. They had the music really loud and then the police came. I got out through the window and I left my friend there. She was already high, and I wasn't going to risk my life for her because I realized that the one's that are your real friends wont force you to do something you don't want to do. She thought that just because I showed her that I considered her as my best friend, she thought she had the authority to tell me what I should do. To her surprise, I'm not that stupid and after a week later she called me and she was telling me oh that why did I leave her, and this and that, and she was screaming at me. I didn't listen to her and from that day till now, she never called me again and she deleted me from her friends' list on myspace. Yet i have another friend who is always cheering me up, telling me that right now all i should care about is school, and that if there's something she can help me with, she said not to hesitate in calling her.

As you can see we all have people in our live's who are willing to help us, while others are willing to affect us. We have to be very smart and realize who are the people that will make you go in the wrong path. Sometimes we're better off alone, bad friendships will always exist, so we have to be smarter in choosing our friends and the authority we give them in getting in our business.


 * __ROMEO & JULIET ESSAY__**

Romeo and Juliet has been one of the most popular stories for decades. It's a play that both adult and young people love and it will forever exist even after 1000 more years. This great story has various themes that almost everyone in this world is able to at least relate to one or more themes that are found in this play. Many people in the world can relate to this story because they can't be with their loved one or for other reasons. There are many songs out there that were inspired by this story of Romeo and Juliet. Some others were not nessesarily but they have verses in common with this amazing play and the theme of the song relates to the play.  One of the themes in the play, that i agree with is The Force Of Love Is Incredibly Powerful. There are many songs that have this as a theme. The theme song I chose for Romeo and Juliet is I don't want to miss a thing by Aerosmith. One quote from the song that fits with the theme is "Don't want to close my eyes, I don't want to fall asleep, cause I'd miss you baby, and I dont want to miss a thing." This quote is saying that he loves her too much and he is not able to live a second without him seen that she's right there by his side. He's scared of falling asleep because he doesn't want to wake up and she that she is no longer with him. He loves her way too much to let her go. This quote proves the theme, love is extrememly powerful because it makes us do what ever we can so that we can save and protect our love. When we're in love we don't mind sacrificing something, as long as we're certain that by doing what's in our hands, is going to keep us always by our loved one's side.

Another quote from the song that fits with the theme is "I just want to hold you close, feel your heart so close to mine, and just stay here in this momment for all the rest of time." This other verse from the song is saying that now that he's in love, he can't bear to be without her. He doesn't mind staying with her forever, just hugging and kissing, and knowing that they love each other. This shows that love is extremely powerful because, just being with her is not boring for him. Instead he's really loving that momment.