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. After 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.
             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 live with Celie and the man. She gets thrown out of the house for rejecting the mans attention and Celie tells her to go get help. While she is doing this the man tries to rape her. She fights him off, she goes to a house that Celie told her to
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