Color Purple
This story takes place in the south. It seems like its in a small farm town. It doesn’t say exactly where it the country it takes place, but it does tell us its the south. It takes place starting in 1903. It tells the story of a girls life as she grows older and all the things she has to go through. Celie is the main character in this story. It starts out when she was 14 and her stepfather used to rape her. He told her not to tell anyone (but God) about what he had done. She has two kids from her stepfather, Adam and Olivia. She started writing letters to God and from that is how the first half of the book is told. Her stepfather takes her two children from her and gives them to one of his friends while they’re babies without telling her. Her father refuses consent for Nettie to marry a man but gives Cetie away to him instead. Since he didn’t get the wife he wanted he abuses her while they are married. Alphonso was Celia and Nettie’s stepfather. He married there mother after their father was hung by some white men. When their mother refuses to have sex with him he starts raping Celie when she is only 14. From this he has two children who he gives away to one of his friends. Afte
I think this book was pretty good for what it was. Even though I couldn’t imagine myself being in a position of a women I can definitely imagine how much that would suck. Now I get somewhat of a understanding of what little rights black women had back in those days it makes me glad that I live in a time that everything seems allot more laid back. We have a lot of problems in today’s society but overall everyone seems to get along better and people can defend themselves. This story is about a girl who was abused and wrote letters to God and it was being told through the letters. It tells how hard a girls life is and how everything is being seen from her point of view for most of the story. It talks about how she was abused when she was young. Then all the things that happened. r he dies Celie and Nettie inherit the house, land, and the store their father owned before he was killed. After he died Celie and Nettie soon found out that he wasn’t there real father, and that their real father had been killed. I think that this story is designed around Celie. Because of all the things that happened in her life and how the things that happened at the beginning came back at the end. Such as getting raped and having two children who were taken away and never seen again. Also how she went from a situation that she had no control over, straight into another situation she had no control over. Nettie is Celie’s younger sister. After the death of Annie Julia a man asks Alphonzo for her hand in marriage. He refuses and gives Celie instead because he already has his own plans for her. Nettie runs away to
Some topics in this essay:
Adam Olivia,
I’m I’m,
Julia Alphonzo,
Color Purple,
Samuel Nettie,
Celie Nettie,
Celia Nettie’s,
Nettie Celie’s,
Nettie Samuel’s,
Olivia Nettie,
real father,
reading textbook,
adam olivia,
girls life,
letters god,
children friends,
situation control,
history book,
textbook don’t,
celie nettie,
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Approximate Word count = 1098
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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