Because Celie doesn't receive any letters she believes that the one person she ever really loved, and gave her love to is now dead. She say, Nothing but death can keep me from it. Feeling heartbroken the two girls write to each other. But it doesn't take long before Mr.- tells her to clear out. Shortly after Celie and Mr.- get married, Nettie runs away from home, and comes to stay with Celie. Mr.-'s children don't accept their new mother, and they try to make Celie's life as hard as possible. After a whole spring of thinking Mr.- agrees to marry Celie, clearly letting her know that she isn't the wife of his choice and that she's ugly. He also adds, that she lies and that he will give him an extra cow if he decides to marry her. Celie's 'father' refuses to let Mr.- marry Nettie, and offers him Celie, saying she's ugly but a hard worker and good with children. Now he's left with four children, two boys, and two girls, he needs someone to care for them, clean the house and help in the fields. Mr.- was once a married man, but his wife was mysteriously killed. Celie fears for her safety, and when Mr.- asks her father if he can marry Nettie, she encourages Nettie to do so. Though he's got a new wife, it doesn't stop him from looking at Nettie. Celie answers that it was God.Īfter her mother dies, her father remarries a girl, even younger than Celie, whose name isn't mentioned. She asked her who the father was, and who had taken the baby.
The second time she got pregnant her mother cursed her. The fist time she was pregnant 'her father' took her out of school, saying she wasn't clever enough anyway and that her sister was the one that needed to go to school, as she was far more intelligent. She believes he killed her first child, a girl, but she doesn't think he killed her little boy.
Both of her childern get taken away from her, just days after they were born, by 'her' father. He tells her that if she speaks about it to anyone it will mean her mother's death. He rapes her a number of times, and by the time Celie is 14 years old she's pregnant for the second time. Her husband, who Celie only refers to as daddy, Pa or he, takes his sexual frustrations out on Celie. Since the birth of her two children she refuses to sleep with her husband. (Her real father was lynched by white men.) Celie's mother is very ill. At the beginning of the novel Celie is 14 years old and living with her mother, her sister (Nettie), and what she thinks is her father, but later turns out to be her step-father. Through her letters to God you get to know Celie, her family, and the way she has to struggle to stay alive, and time after time has to overcome horrifying situations.
#The color purple series#
The Color Purple describes the life of Celie, in a series of letters, most of which are addressed to God and later on in the novel to her sister Nettie. 2) The Color Purple is a historical/psychological novel.
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