CHAPTER III METHOD OF STUDY
Doing this thesis, the writer uses the library reserach by collecting the data from some books and many other resources which can be related to the subject
matter being analyzed. The writer uses The Color Purple as the main source that contents the important information for the subject matter which is being analyzed.
Nawawi, 1993:30 states that, “Penelitian kepustakaan dilakukan dengan cara menghimpun data dari berbagai
literature baik di perpustakaan maupun tempat-tempat lain.”
Library research is done by collecting the data from any kinds of source in the library or any other places.
3.1 Data collecting Procedure
The first step is to collect the important things from the novel that are related to the subject matter which is analyzed as the main source. Find the
quotations and read them many times to understand what they are related to the factors that make Celie change are reflected inside them. Finding the other books,
and exploring the internet are also done to find data that support the analysis. To make the process of doing this thesis easier and faster, the writer also reads some
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books and explores from the internet to fing data about prose and the intrinsic elements to provide information about the elements itself.
3.2 Data Selecting Procedure
The second step is to select all the most related quotations and information which will support the analysis of the thesis, and only the very significant data are
used in the process of doing this thesis. From all the quotations got, the writer should select them to find the the quotations which have relation with the subject
matter.
3.3 Data Analyzing Procedure
The last step of doing this thesis is that all the selected data are being analyzed to achieve what has been planned in the objective of this thesis.
Analyzing the data, the writer uses the descriptive analysis, as quoted from Ratna 2004:55, The descriptive analysis method is a method which describes facts
which are followed by analysis. This method is not only to describe the facts, but also to give adequate understandings and explanations towards the facts. Thus, the
last procedure is the process to describe the collected data, and analyzed them.
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CHAPTER IV THE ANALYSIS OF TRANSFORMATION OF CELIE’S CHARACTER IN
ALICE WALKER’S THE COLOR PURPLE
4.1 Celie
Celie is a poor young black girl growing in Georgia. In a series of letters to God and her sister, Nettie. At first, Celie tells her story of life to God, as a child
she was abused and had a low-esteem, especially by her stepfather and then by her husband, Albert. She hopes that God will give her the answers she desires to
identify her life
Dear God, I’m four teen years old. I have always been a good girl. May
be you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening
to me. Last spring after little Lucious come I heard them fussing.
He was pulling on her arm. She say it too soon, Fonso,
I ain’t well. Finally he leave her alone. A week go by, he pulling on her
arm again. She say Naw, I ain’t gonna. Can’t you see I’m already half
dead, an all Of these children.
She went to visit her sister doctor over Macon. Left me to
see after the others. He never had a kine word to say to me. Just say
You gonna do what your mammy wouldn’t. firt he put his thing up
gainst my hip and sort of wiggle it around. Then he grab hold my
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titties. Then he push his thing inside my pussy. When that hurt, I cry.
He start to choke me, saying You better shut up and used to it.
But I don’t never git used to it. And now I feels sick every time I
be the one to cook. My mama she fuss at me an look at me. She happy,
cause she good to her now. But too sick to last long. Walker, 1982: p. 1
This first letter of the color purple introduces an uneducated 14 years old girl oppressed from freely expressing her thoughts. Thus, She decided to be silent
and invisible, that’s why she tells her problem to God, not to others, even her mother.
When she marries Mr___, she is forced to look after the house hold while
Mr... lounges about smoking his pipe. “why you don’t work no more? He ast his daddy. No reason for me to, his daddy say.”
Walker 1982 : 29, actually Mr___ doesn’t want to marry Celie, he wants to marry the girl whom he sees in the
chruch, Nettie, but Pa doen’t let him to take Celie, “Mr__ finally come right out an ast for Nettie hand in marriage. But he won’t let her go. He say she too
young, no experience. Say Mr___ got too many children already.” Walker,
1982 : 7, hence, he lets Mr____ takes Celie who is not virgin by offering him some cows, besides he want to take Nettie. After three months, Mr___ comes and
says, “Mr___ say, that cow still coming? He say, her cow.” Walker, 1982 : 12.
From this quotation, The writer assumes that Mr___ marries Celie is not because of her goodness, but he seems very interesting to get her cows, if he takes Celie.
Celie grew tired of being tied by man, she was not loved, but she was servitude. Celie can’t fight back against her stepfather and her husband. Her
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ability to endure under the pressure is a key to survival. She manages to withstand the sexual abuse of Fonso, her step father, the loss of her babies, the cold cruelity
of Albert, her husband, the loss of her sister, Nettie, besides living in poverty, struggles and prejudice. But she never gives up. She writes letter to God, trusting
that he will eventually bless her life.
“but I don’t know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive” Walker, 1982 : 2618, “I don’t say anything, I stay where I’m told. But I’m
alive” Walker, 1982 : 29, it seems that she can bear all the sorrows happened to her. Before Nettie leaves Celie’s husband’d home, Celie talks with her, “ it worse
than that, I think if I was buried, I wouldn’t have to work, but I just say, never mine, never mine, long as I can spell G-O-D, I got somebody along” Walker,
1982 : 26 her action of addressing God suggests Celie’s alienation, loneliness, and marginality.
4.2 Celie’s Changing Character
