Sofia In The Color Purple

In the beginning of the novel, The Color Purple, one of the consequences for being a black woman was being seen as a prey. Instead of being seen as her mother’s daughter, Celie was seen as an easy target. Her stepfather had much interest in her, and he took action with his interest. He constantly abused, and raped Celie. To the point that Celie became pregnant two times while living with her stepfather. Celie became powerless, and her emotions were no more. She became a black helpless woman thanks to her childhood with her father as he would setup Celie to have no emotions, or fight in her. All to blame because of the way she was born. A similar experience also occurred in the book with Mary Agnes, also known as Squeak. After Sofia was

This was about to change when Mr.__’s son, Harpo, got married to a women who knew how to fight back. Sofia, his wife, was raised in a family with multiple sisters who had each others back, and therefore Sofia grew up with a flare in her. This flare carrying on to her marriage with Harpo who would constantly test her. So much so that Harpo at one point even attempted to gain a substantial amount of weight just to have a chance to put Sofia in her place. Harpo repeatedly tried to use physical tactics against Sofia, but the fight she had was to much to handle for Harpo. This fight, however, would soon cost Sofia, because black women at the time weren't allowed to express their opinion, especially to white men. She may have got away with it with harpo, but when Sofia expressed her opinion to the mayor's wife, a huge brawl was caused. All because Sofia simply was expressing herself as a black woman, which apparently was not acceptable to the mayor. Sofia ended up with a cracked skull, cracked ribs, a blinded eye, and a experience that she would never

Sofia, for example, had a difficult time feeling satisfied with her life, because of being locked away for several years away from her children. In which actually resorted to her children forgetting Sofia as their mother. Shug in the book seemed like she had it all, but she also wasn't content with her life. She would jump from person to person trying to feel some sort of satisfaction, which would work for a short amount of time, but not long term. This can be specifically seen when Shug goes from Albert to Celie to Grady, and also to Germaine. Celie, however, reached the point in her life that she was finally content. Even so, one cannot forget the years of torture Celie endured. All of these traumatic experiences that Celie went through all added up to cause Celie to make a change. With the help of Shug, and some influence from Sofia, Celie was able to progress as a person, and become satisfied with her life. Celie started as a submissive girl who always followed orders from the dominant male in her life to now a woman who can finally be independent. Though, the sad thing about it is her change in the book is partially to be credited by the horrid events Celie experienced, because of the one reason that she was a black woman during the first half of the 20th