She keeps writing in hopes that eventually her letters will reach Celie. 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. The lessons she learns about God, women, and race transform her into a more radical woman. Nettie finally tells Corrine and Samuel that her sister is the biological mother of the children. After Corrine dies, Nettie and Samuel go to England together to try to save Olinka village they work in from destruction at the hands of rubber companies.
Nettie and her family are reunited with Celie. She is joyous because she now knows that she is a part of something greater than she ever imagined: Africa.
She is ready to help "uplift black people everywhere. Nettie is, as we shall continue to see, a part of history. Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican black, immigrated to New York in the late s. He was the founder of black nationalism and pan-Africanism; he wanted blacks to go back to Africa and create a powerful empire. His movement, often called Garveyism, was especially popular in Harlem, the predominantly black section of New York.
Nettie's prose reflects some of his ideology. Nettie has always believed in the notion of possibility, but now the word takes on enormous importance in terms of black people on two continents. Previous Letters Next Letters Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks?
The president, a light colored African like his cabinet members, talks about the local people, whom he calls "natives. Nettie is amazed when she spies Africa, the home of her ancestors.
Like her fellow black travelers, she gives thanks to God for the opportunity. She is further amazed to find out that even in Africa, a color hierarchy reigns; lighter skinned Africans sit in power while their darker-skinned compatriots are described as "natives" and are made to work in the fields. Nettie finds that colonialism results in a stratified society similar to the culture she has left in the South. This is another letter to God from Celie.
She explains to Him that it takes a long time to read just a few of Nettie's letters, for she and Shug are unfamiliar with many of the words that her sister writes. As they read, Celie finds herself crying, for she misses her sister and she is angry with Albert for having kept the letters from her. Celie and Shug are interrupted when Grady and Albert come home. They carefully put the letters aside.
Celie tells Shug she does not know how she will keep from killing Albert. Shug says she must remember that Nettie will be coming home and will want to see the gentle Celie she knows and loves. If Celie murders Albert, she may never see Nettie again.
Celie agrees to hold her anger in, but she asks Shug to sleep with her that night. Shug arranges not to sleep with Albert in order to accommodate Celie. Celie's long pent-up anger is now barely contained. The fact that Albert has kept Nettie's letters from her is almost more than she can tolerate. She tells Shug she does not know how she will keep from murdering Albert. Shug warns her of what the consequences would be, including never being able to see Nettie again. This chapter presents a very different Celie than was seen at the beginning of the novel; she is no longer willing to be submissive and abused.
However, she has not lost her intelligence and will keep her anger in check and not do anything rash. In reality, Celie gains power and authority through her anger. She has a new view of her relationship with her husband, and for the first time in the book, she calls Albert by his real name instead of Mr. That night Celie and Shug sleep together like sisters rather than lovers; they only hug to express their emotions. Celie is too angry to be sexually motivated.
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