The People of Olinka

Its been awhile since the last time I updated my blog and I have read so much.The book is one hundred times more better than the movie. I've got a few more short chapters to read and then I'll be on tho the next book.Anyways, back to the book. As you know Mr.____ kicked Nettie out of the house because she don't want him. well she ends up meeting a preacher and his wife.Their names are Samuel and Corrine. what no one will know until later is that they have been raising Celie's kids,Adam and Olivia.She ends up going to Africa with them as missionaries and along the way she gets to experience life out side her small town. Samuel and Corrine teach her and she help take care of the kinds. They end up in a small village  of Olinka where Olivia befriends a girl named Tahsi. The villagers welcome them with open arms with their help and education but believe that only boy should be educated and girl should stay and tend to their homes. Olivia the only girl but she teaches Tahsi everything she know and Tashi tell her tribal stories.During this time ,the Europeans are building a road and at first the people of Olinka treat them with hospitality but then when the find out the road will continue they realize that it will go right through their village. Also Corrine has been thinking that Adam and Olivia are Nettie's children  and their father is Samuel. This is all going on while she is battling a sickness and she keeps getting weaker and weaker .Nettie had early discovered that the children were Celie's but decided it was best not to say anything.Finally everything is let out in the open on Corrine's death bed.My next posting will be about what's happening with Celie while her sister and children in Africa.

Beginning The Color Purple

 I started to read  this book about a week ago and I am almost finished. I have seen the movie about a hundred times and never knew it was a book at first.Celie is the main character  .She has had at least two children by her father and is now worried about her sister's safety; Even though her father has remarried.When she gave birth to her children her father took them and she has never seen them since.She has always kinda been the care taker since her mother had become sick so she did all of the house chores. Her sister Nettie has always been prettier and smarter than her.A man  named Mr._____ come to her fathers house wanting to marry her little sister.Her father say she to young but I think he just want her for himself .He offer Celie to him instead.Mr.____ don't want Celie but after a few months he decide to accept the offer only because he need somebody to take care of his kids.Upon arrival at Mr____ house she realized that she got her work cut out for her. His children are rude,dirty, nappy headed children.The one thing Celie was not looking forward to was sex with Mr.____.She just closed her eyes , hoping it would go by faster.She work hard around the house trying to create some what of a suitable home for herself even though this is the last place she wants to be. She getting alittle happier now that her sister Nettie coming to live with them.But she worries that Mr.___ Might try to pursue her.

Reading for plaesure contract.

I , Joy Gilchrist will read a minimum of four books and make a conscientious effort to meet my individual goals inside and outside the class . I plan to blog weekly about my experience of  " Reading for pleasure". The four books I plan to read are:

1. The Color Purple, By AliceWalker
2.The Hunger Games (Hunger Games Series #1)  ,By Suzanne Collins
3.Catching Fire (Hunger Games Series #2) , By Suzanne Collins
4.Mocking jay (Hunger Games Series #3) ,By Suzanne Collins
5.Thirteen Reasons Why, By Jay Asher