Shug's Struggle In The Color Purple By Alice Walker

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“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker, tells the 40 year story of an African American woman named Celie. Her tale is split into 90 letters, beginning with telling us that her Pa sexually and physically abuses her. In her first letter she is writing to God, telling him about how she is now pregnant with her Pa’s second child. When her mother passes away from illness, her father marries her off to another man, Mr.___ and takes her children. She finds herself once again being abused in her marriage, as she takes care of her new husband’s four children, is beaten and sexually taken advantage of. Soon, she becomes infatuated with her husband’s mistress, Shug Avery. Shug is everything that Celie longs to be, when she must nurse to Shug, a long lasting