Friday, February 25, 2011

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.

1 comment:

  1. I love this book too. You might compare this to the depiction of Africans in Things Fall Apart. Love the addition of the picture! Keep up the great work Joy.

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