The Color Purple

English 102 24 April 2007 change of an Ab employ Woman The Color discolor is set in the rural reciprocal ohm and told finished a series of letter written by the protagonist, Celie, chronicling her journey from disorder and humiliation to happiness and rebirth. Through bug give away virtually of her demeanor she has been treated as a handmaid. Her totally worth as a woman is for cooking, cleaning, taking assist of the family and fulfilling manpowers desires. She has n invariably been taught how to have it off or be loved and throughout just about of the novel Celie is disgustd and in truth wretched unless she thinks that this is the focus women are vatic to bear.It is not until she lets women into her life, which lead Celie to her epiphany, that she realizes that she deserves more out of her life and that she is worthy of abide by. Through manduction relationships with them, Celie sees how women should be treated from some other(prenominal) linear perspective than what she has been taught by her family. Celies life is wholeness of struggle and despair. The first line of the account statement is what her step bugger off told her when she was solitary(prenominal) fourteen years old, after raping and impregnating her. This statement is so pro base that it expl cause(prenominal)s why she is so panic-struck of men her whole life and emotionless to the things that are done to her.The line states, You wear out not never prescribe zero and God. Itd kill your mammy. (Walker, 1). It is thusly that she starts writing to God. She can not tell anybody what has happened to her, not even her sister, Nettie, whom she is at hand(predicate) to at the era. Nettie wouldnt even understand, she thinks, because she is younger thus Celie and Celie doesnt even understand what is press release on. Celie feels the completely way to go through life is to remain silent and persevere. Her only outlet is through her garner to God. Celies step pay back , Fonso, accordingly marries Celie off to a widower who needs a mother for his children and individual to do the admit mould.The widower, Mr. ___, originally came for Netties hatful in marriage but Fonzo refused. Fonso gives Celie to Mr. ____ instead, rotund him She aint freshShe spoiled. Twice. , then he goes on to say, She ugly. But she aint no stranger to tight work. (Walker, 8). This is where Celies self worth is genuinely shown to her. She feels that all she is good for is the hard work she accomplishes inside the home. The way the people closest to her talk about her in cabal with all the bad things that has happened to Celie delineates her feel worthless. She has precise little self-worth and self-esteem.She is a product of overweening physical and mental abuse. The oppressive savagery of her life continues when she marries Mr. ___, who beats her and subjects her to a life of domestic servitude. Nettie later decides to run aside from Fonsos house because of the constant abuse towards her and decides to move in with Celie and Mr. ___. Nettie sees that life is not that much better at Celies house and after Mr. ____ tries to rape her she decides that she must(prenominal) leave there, also. Consequently, Fonso tells Celie that he will make certain(a) her and Nettie never speak again.For some years after Nettie left she writes Celie earn, but Fonzo hides them in the beginning Nettie gets them. Fonso tries to break the only bandage Celie had that brought her any happiness. It is not until Celie lets women into her life, once again, that her sentiment starts to change. The first woman she becomes close to is her daughter- in- law, Sofia. Sofia is very strong and fierce, the total opposite of Celie, and she was not to be ruled over by her husband or anyone else. Sofia fights back when her husband, Harpo (Mr. s Son), tries to rule her with an iron fist.Sofia refuses to be suppress disrespect the prejudiced society of the thirty-something s outh in which they all have intercourse. Sofia instills in Celie a modfound efficiency. Celie is so immersed in subjection, she accepts the point of view of Mr. she advises Harpo to beat Sofia. Thus, she agrees with her oppressor in the idea that a woman should only obey, work and be silent. After this present moment of deep humiliation, Celie has the first serious converse in the book. Sofia comes to see her, furious, and Celie has to explain her attitude. She discovers she is jealous of Sofias capacity to fight.This conversation is a wise beginning for Celie. Both women find a moment of community, they do something together. The pronoun picuspic is finally used picI express joy. She laugh. Then us both laugh so hard us give way down on the steppic. (Averbach). The woman who has the nigh profound effect on Celie is Shug Avery, Mr. ___s mistress whom he has three children with. The lecturer would probably think that Celie would be deep hateful of her husbands mistress. However, she is huffy to meet her because Celie feels as though she is everything that Celie could never be.Her first words to Celie though were You sure is ugly (Walker, 46), which is probably the most dramatically reinforced proof that Celie has ever had of her own ugliness. Celie even notices that Shug calls Mr. ____ by his real name, Albert, which demonstrates to Celie that Shug is more than just a mere servant to Mr. ____ and that Mr. respects Shug unlike Celie. Mr. ____ goes out of his way to make Shug happy and shows her such respect. Celie doesnt understand why Shug is worthy of respect but she is not. This reiterates to Celie that Mr. ___ feels like he is ranking(a) to her but not to Shug.Shug stays with Celie and Albert for a while when she is sick and Celie takes care of her until she gets better. This is when Celie and Shug amaze as woman and friends. Celie is so magnetise to Shugs independence and freedom that she loves disbursement this time with her. Shug is the only person, other than Nettie, who has ever treated Celie like a humankind being and savors her company. They share a romantic relationship later on, as well. The conditional relation of Celie and Shugs sexual relationship is that Celie learns how to be proud of her body and that she learns how to use it to enjoy sexual intercourse.Celie has never truly enjoyed casualness with any other person. She did it simply because she mat she had to in order to make them happy. Celie becomes Shugs only true friend. Shug is a blues vocalist and everyone enjoys her while she is on stage or sleeping with them but when she was ill no(prenominal) of her so called friends visited her. Celie was the only one who took care of her and spent time with her when she couldnt be the life of the party as she normally was. Shug, like Celie never had much tenderheartedness in her life and never k novel how to love or be loved.Shug wrote Celie a poesy to show her taste sensation for Celie and sang it to Celie at one of her concerts. This made Celie feel so good because nobody had ever showed their appreciation for anything that she had ever done. Later on in the novel Shug finds the letters that Nettie had been writing Celie for years. at a time Celie finds out that Mr. ___ hid all of Netties letters from her she feels anger and betrayal towards Mr. ____ because she never tangle that he would do something so baneful to her. She was still fearful of him at this point, so she takes all the letters out of the envelopes and leaves the nvelopes, hoping that he wouldnt find out that she had found Netties letters. As she starts reading the letters she has an epiphany when she realizes that Mr. ____ tried to rape Nettie and that it was the real close she left. She read of how Nettie was in Africa and how different it was compared to the underage farm Celie has run shortd at most of her life. She finds out that her sister has been taking care of her ii children that she had wit h Fonso and that Fonso was not her real father. Now she feels she has something to live for and that she does not have to be confine by Mr. __s abuse anymore. She has a whole new family, that she thought before were dead. She wants to kill Mr. ____ for hiding all this from her but Shug tells her not to because if she did she would never be able-bodied to see her family. Celie eventually leaves town with Shug and Shugs husband, Grady, to live in Tennessee. As time goes by Celies step father passes away and Celie finds out that her real father left her his house and a dry out good lineage. She has found a new independence by running this store. Shes excited because now that she has a house Nettie will have a stupefy to return to.Celies relationship with Shug suffers many a(prenominal) ups and downs. Shug had moved in with Celie in her new home but left to operate a younger man. Celie still prevails because of her newfound independence as a business woman. Shug eventually return s and lives with Celie. As Celies trust is built she starts to understand and forgive Mr. _____. The strength of these women combined with their care for one another offer opportunities for all of them to continue growing, despite the racist and sexist world they live in.During the course of the book, they cry together, laugh together, drift life together, and share one anothers joys. They respect one another. They live in a world that Celie could never have imagined when she was fourteen. Due to her experiences with Shug, Sofia, and Nettie, Celie is able to triumph over the sexual and racial oppression that smothered many of her female ancestors. plant life Cited Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York Harcourt, Inc. , 2003. Literature imagination Center. Averbach, Margara. 1998. Gale Group. 23 April 2007 Pifer, Lynn. Find Articles. Winter 1998. 19 April 2007 .The Color Purple