The Color Purple: Nettie's Timeline
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Updated: 6 Feb 2021
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Created byMartha Saldana Argumedo
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Mr. tells Nettie she would never see or hear from Celie again.
Nettie finds herself knocking on someone's house, to her surprise a familiar face opens the door.Nettie is living with Samuel,Corrine and Celie's children Olivia and Adam.Samuel, Corrine and the children are missionaries.Nettie is becoming a missionary, she studies the african culture and history. Before this Nettie sees sofia.Nettie and her family travel to England in a ship.Nettie is in New York Harlem, with her new family meaning Samuel, Corrine and the children.Nettie and the family are in London, England were she is told more about what missionary's mission is and more about african's historyNettie leaves Southampton, EnglandNettie and the family stop at Lisbon, PortugalNettie and the family stop at Dakar, Senegal.Nettie and the family arrive at Monrovia, LeberiaNettie is excited when she goes to Monrovia.Nettie is going to the village, where she will become a missionary. She learns about the culture and religion of the village.Now in African, Nettie teaches kids math, english, history etc.
Corrine is jealous of Nettie because the olinkas think she is Samuel's other wife.
The Olinkas are very old school. They believe women shouldn't go to school.
A road is being built near Cassava fields.Olivia has a friend, Tashi, who she teaches because her dad doesn't believe girls should go to school. Nettie and Olivia don't agree with the Olinka's Knowledge.Nettie learns about the village's believe on marriage and infidelity, how a wife can be killed for infidelity.
Nettie also attends to her first funeral since Tashi's father died. Woman painted their faces white and wear white garments.
Since Tashi's mom is a honorary man, she can do what she want. She let's Tashi go to school.
Also, Corrine doesn't want Samuel alone with Nettie.The road has been finish to go to Cassava fields, which the Olinkas believe it was made for them.
They believe they are the center of the world.The Olinkas realize that the road was going through the village too.
The school, the church everything was demolished.The chief of the village realize that olinka village was now property of English rubber company.
Now the Olinka have to pay rentThe Olinka live like ostriches , there have built a new school and a church and Nettie has a new hut.
Corrine has African fever,
Olivia is now accepted by the boys at school.
Tashi and more girls are going to school.Corrine thinks that Nettie and Samuel are the parents of Adam and Olivia.
Corrine makes Nettie swear to the bible that that she met Samuel when she met her.Samuel tells Nettie that Pa gave him Olivia and Adam.
Nettie founds out that Pa is not their pa.
Celie and Nettie's father was a farmer that had a store and was killed by the white merchants.
Their mother became crazy because of these.
Celie, Nettie and their mother didn't know how to crop and were starving.
Pa marries their mother to have the crop and they start having more children.
Pa tells Samuel that Adam and Olivia are from Celie's mother and that she can't take care of them.
Nettie tells Samuel th
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