A Color Purple

Celie and Nettie are sisters that are close, with Nettie being the younger one. Early on in the book Nettie serves as a stronger personality than Celie even though Nettie is much younger than her. After marrying Mr. , Celie takes Nettie into her home after Celie runs away from their step father. After some failed sexual advances by

Mr. _ towards Nettie, Nettie is forced to leave Celie behind also. This leaves Celie alone with Mr. _ and makes Celie basically powerless. She is essentially seen as someone who is very passive in her confrontations, especially with Mr. _, as well as other men. However, Celie shows she knows that others see her as a powerless object when she tells Sofia, Celie’s large domin

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"First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery" she says "I thought I had turned into a man. _ trunk Celie, with the help of Shug Avery, regains her sense of self-identity by learning about her prior familial relationships and what actually happened to her children. With Celie loving shug also the begin to build another relationship with each other. And when she do, all us together gon whup your ass.

Another relationship that proved more vital was the one between Shug Avery and Celie. When Celie first sees her picture she is in love with it. " When Celie hears this her reaction shows how she has matured throughout the novel bys saying “Shug got a right to live to. ant friend who marries Celie’s stepson, she is jealous of her strong, self-defensive personality. “You a lowdown dog is whats wrong, I say. “I like Sofia, but she don’t act like me at all. _ has gone through some changes and she is able to sit down and talk with him. When Celie and Nettie come face to face again they both are speechless and become weak at the knees and end up falling down on the ground. His name is Germaine and Celie tell us "she got the hots for a boy of nineteen.

In an unexpected return from Africa, Nettie comes home with Samuel, Adam, Tashi, and Olivia.

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Approximate Word count = 911
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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