Book Summary: The Color Purple By Alice Walker

n the book The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, demonstrates how particular events can shape a person and their life. The book’s main character is Celie, a young black women that is going through many tough situations throughout her life time, and was also uneducated. Some of these events were being raped by the man she thought was he father, her mother and sister dying, and then being cheated on by her husband, which was also her younger sister’s ex-husband. Instead of letting these harsh situations break her, she finds her missing piece, Shug, which she will help her become the woman she was never able to be. In the story, Mr.__ was Nettie’s husband, but after she died Mr.__ forced her older sister, Celie, to become his wife. While Mr.__ and Celie were married she found out that he was being unfaithful to her, but she never mentioned anything about it. The name of Mr.__ mistress was Shug, and Celie grew an

Celie ever knew what love was because Celie was mainly used as a way of pleasure for her “father” and Mr.__, and she was thought that she was only useful to have children. “Nobody ever love me, I say”- Celie (117.) to Shug showed Celie love and affection, and soon it sparked a sexual attraction towards Shug. According to Shug “A women who was good with sex was the one who everyone would love. Celie felt a rush of sensation that she never had before having sex with Shug, and this was a reason why they grew closer together. Celie actually enjoyed having sex with Shug and raised her self-confidence to her expectation. Celie never had known the love from her mother, because her mother was ill and too weak to show Celei how much she loved her. Shug was that motherly love that she hardly remembers with her mother, “ Me and Shug sound asleep. Her back to me, my arms around her waist. What it like? Little like Sleeping with momma, only I can’t hardly remember ever sleeping with her”.