Alice Walker The Color Purple Essay

Alice Walker focuses on the many struggles and life decisions that many of the main female characters make in hopes of leaving an abusive and violent life controlled by a man for a better life where they could do anything they please without having to look over their shoulder scared of receiving a beating if they do something wrong from the man who controls them. In the first letter of the book, Celie the main character is fourteen years old and notices that her father or “pa” wants to start having sexual relationships with Celie’s mother but the mother says it is too soon as she just had a baby. Celie’s father begins to molest her commenting “you gonna do what your mammy wouldn’t” and then proceeds to threaten her by saying that she cannot …show more content…
In letter two, Celie’s mother is very harsh towards Celie as she always criticizes every one of her movements even right before she is about to die. Celie is pregnant and her mother wants to know who the father is but she simply replies saying that it is God’s as she does not “know no other man or what else to say” (Walker 2). Celie gives birth to the baby and her mother wants to know where it went and she responds saying that “God took it” but in reality the father took it and got rid of the baby to hide the fact that he is molesting Celie and soon after Celie becomes pregnant again (Walker 2). In the third letter, Celie’s father begins to act like he cannot stand her no more and also accusing her of being evil and up to no good. Celie’s father took her second baby away from her, a boy this time but she does not think he killed it rather “he sold it to a man an his wife over Monticello” (Walker 3). Celie has enough strength to put up with her father but she becomes worried when she notices the way he begins to look at her little sister and just hopes that he soon finds somebody to marry so that her sister is left