Sofia responds that her close bond with her five strong sisters has helped her. Throughout the novel, the theme of women bonding to fight oppression emerges and re-emerges.
Sofia is a strong and independent woman who refuses to be oppressed. When Harpo tries to beat his wife he ends up hurt himself. Later, the mayor's wife notices how clean Sofia's children are and asks Sofia to be her maid. Sofia responds with, "Hell, no." The mayor slaps Sofia, and Sofia knocks him down. Because Sofia refuses to submit to oppression of any kind, she is punished. She is sentenced to twelve years in jail and the sentence is commuted to twelve years of labor as the mayor's maid. Sofia committed no actual crime, in fact, she was fighting crime. However, her punishment makes it clear that if one fights against and resists the institutionalized violence of social oppression, there can sometimes be great cost. Sofia is forced to be the maid she refused to be.
Another crime of Mr. ____'s is to hide the letters from Celie's sister, Nettie, so that Celie belives Nettie is dead. In truth, Nettie is living in Africa, and encountering imperial, cultural and racial oppression on a grand scale. When Celie finally reads Nettie's letters, she discovers that Mr. ____ tried to rape Nettie, and she fought back. He cursed her and hid her letters from Celie.In Africa, Nettie has been doing missionary work. There, she sees violence on a braoder scale. Road builders working for an English rubber company come through the middle of the village with orders to shoot any Africa who opposes them. They destroy homes and crops and force the Africans to pay rent on their own land.
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