Characters: Fonso (Pa), Celie, Nettie, Mr.__/Albert, Harpo, Sofia, Shug Avery
             After reading Celie's first letter, I already found some background information of her family. The father, Fonso, sexually abuses his own family members. Celie, the daughter of Fonso who is being raped by him, writes to God. I think Celie writes to God because she cannot tell this to anyone, and writing to God is the only way she can speak to a close, loving friend. Celie gets pregnant twice and Fonso sells the children away. Upon knowing this, I get the impression of Fonso as a character who is a sick and a sexually abusive man, who wants everything for his pleasure, and a person who doesn't care much about his family. For ex: Celie says, "I got breasts full of milk running down my self. He say why don't you look decent? Put on something. But what I'm sposed to put on? I don't have nothing."
             This indicates that Fonso does not provide for the family and they don't have much material-wise. The writing Celie uses might portray she and the rest of the children must not have had any education because it is sloppy english. I do not like how the words are organized. For ex: "He came home with a girl from round Gray. She be my age but they married. He be on her all the time." I have no idea what is happening in this situation. I think back in those days, black people use black folk language so that's why it is harder to understand.
             I wonder what this means: "Mr.__ came that evening. I'm in the bed crying. Nettie she finally see the light of day, clear. Our new mammy she see it too. She in her room crying. Nettie tend to first one, then the other." This part is kin of confusing. I do not exactly know why Celie is crying. Maybe Mr.__ is doing the same, sick things that her father did to her and maybe Nettie tending to the first one, then the other are Celie's and Mr.__'s ...