... mother, Sofia says to Celie, " "I know you won't believe this, Miss Celie, but Mr. ___ act like he trying to git religion"" (229). Albert's change in way he treats Celie, and women in general at the end of the novel, makes Celie softer towards men. It is noticeable that Celie has ... teaches Celie about her sexuality. Shug tells Celie that she is still a virgin because she has never had a pleasing sex life. Her stepfather and Albert always forced themselves on her. To let Celie know how she needs to feel, Shug becomes her lover, which has a renewing and empowering effect on ... she has b...

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... chains that bind her and begin to reveal the true loving, strong and independent woman she beyond doubt was. " I won't leave, she say, until I know Albert won't even think about beating you"(79), Shug sticks up for Celie, when others would not, while making this comment. Pure affection expressed by Shug opens Celie's heart ... to love herself and have faith in God again; she is able to begin spreading her love to everything and everyone around her. Shug connects Celie and Albert. At the beginning Celie is not even friendly enough with Mr._____ to use his given name and he makes little ef...

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... , but also through the physical pain it causes to carry and deliver the babies. Celie is in a compulsory marriage with her abusive husband, Albert. Her love life is something she does not desire nor makes her happy. When her friend asks her how she feels sleeping with ... off, go to sleep. 'You make it sound like he going to the toilet on you.' That what it feel like, I say." (Walker 79) Albert and Celie's sex life is not like a regular happy couple's; she does not enjoy it or feels love from him. She treats it like something she needs to ... allow him to do and tries her best to en...

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... word or any sign that she is receiving Celie's letters at all. If it wasn't for the friendships that Celie formed with Sophia (Albert's daughter-in-law), and later Shug (Albert's lover), I don't think that she would have survived. She needed the relationships and guidance of these women to help her establish self ... own ways, and help eachother with the things in their lives that they can't overcome without support. Shug helped Celie to find the letter that Albert had been hiding for years, letters from Nettie in Africa. This was virtually what Celie needed to put her over the edge and ...

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... even though she has sex with him, cares for his three children, cleans his house, and works his fields (Lewis 1). She also calls her husband, Albert, Mr._____ to show readers the cruelty of the back man to his wife and family. Men's cruelty to their wives is one of America's greatest tragedies. ... raped by her stepfather. He immediately takes both the children from her a sold them to a church pastor. She is then forced to marry a man named Albert but falls in love with Shug Avery, a former lover of her husband (Lewis 1). After Celie takes care of Shug when she gets ill they become lesb...

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... about herself. Shug helps Celie find hidden letters from Nettie. In the first letter, it reads "You've got to fight and get away from Albert. He ain't no good." (131) Both women help Celie find herself and what she represents. She receives inspiration and hope from Nettie; she ... herself, which contributes to her newfound ability to holding herself equal to others. For the first time, Celie places herself equal to her husband, Albert. Through their entire marriage, she dealt with his disrespect as he beat and raped her. With the help of Nettie and Shug, she gained ... making pants. "Wh...

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... people around her. Pregnant twice at age fourteen, by her own "father", Celie is sold by him to a cruel man named Albert. Celie is separated from her beloved sister. Albert uses her as a servant and flaunts his affair with Shug Avery. The protagonist of the novel is Celie, an innocent black girl ... who faces tremendous conflicts such as sexual abuse and domestic violence. The antagonist of the story is Albert or as Celie calls him Mr._______, a cruel man who mistreats and verbally attacks Celie. At the beginning Celie tolerated his abuses and insults but when ... she finds out that he...

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... When they grew up, they finally found out the truth-shocking Celie that her children were still alive. Wither Albert (Celie's husband) Celie was beaten, forced to raise his children, and do all of the work. Albert gives Celie no respect until she moves and lives with Shug for a few years, then he wants to ... sister.) I think that this shows how much Celie grew, from a dreaming girl, to a reality-stricken women who misses her loved ones. The impact that Shug (Albert's mistress) had on Celie was extremly strong. She showed her how do many things. Like fashion, love, intimacy, and the impo...

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... 's going on. By letter 11, she has even started using dry wit and irony as well. This reflects her growing confidence and it is shining through in her writing. When Albert is complimenting Nettie, she tells Celie the exact things he has been saying to her, with which, Celie tells God tongue-in-cheek that she herself is starting to feel ... . Celie is also strongly disempowered by sex. The novel starts with her being raped by Alphonso, showing an immediate inability to resist on her part. When she is married to Albert, he mistreats her as much as Alphonso did and to them she is just seen a...

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... without any resistance. She was objectified and used for sex by her father until the day she was married off, where she was then treated the same by her husband, Albert. "[Pa] never had a kine word to say to me. Just say You gonna do what your mammy wouldn't You better shut up and git used to it" (Walker ... me, or just my color?" (Walker 97). "Bright skin" is cherished, because it is better than the dark skin, which causes so much trouble and according to Albert's sister, is the reason why his first wife was murdered. Like most black people in the South during that time, Celie and ... ...

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... name her husband. this is her personal way of having some power in her marriage. It is only towards the end of the novel when she refers to him as Albert, that we see how her character has grown and her opinion of men is not as negative as it once was.  Another consequence of 'The Color Purple' being written ... ...

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... around me. Us sit like that for maybe half a hour. Then she kiss me on the fleshy part of my shoulder and stand up. I won't leave, she say, until I know Albert won't even think about beating you."(79) She thrived off of Shug and soon let her true colors show and got out of the abusive relationship. June from The Joy ... ...

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... insight that Celie lacked. She knew right away that Mr.____ was abusing her. She even wrote to Celie and told her "You've got to fight and get away from Albert. He ain't no good." (Walker, pg. 131) The two sisters longed for each other the entire time that they were separated. When they finally were reunited they were so happy ... ...

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... age have the same confidence and fearlessness to do what they please when they please. Shug was not afraid to talk to Celie about her sexuality and her experiences with Albert, Celie's husband. Shug is also not afraid to demonstrate her homosexuality with Celie. There are many accounts when Shug is talking to Celie about sexual things and asking her questions ... ...

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... develops due to an unusual event. "This event, which should break up any household, proves oddly restorative; a bond between Celie and Shug develops almost to the exclusion of the useless Albert." (Prescott) The relationship that develops between Shug and Celie is so strong that even their husbands cannot separate them from one another. Similar to the relationship Celie develops with Sofia ... ...

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... taking care of her and helping her back to health and also how the roles were reversed for Celie and Shug when Shug helps Celie become an independent woman from Albert. The article continues on to give some examples of the way Celie was a lesbian in this excerpt: "To Celie, "men look like frogs" and will stay frogs, "no matter how ... ...

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