The Color Purple Book Report

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A Troubling Time
Omari Samir Dickerson
The Color Purple published 1982
This book is set back in the 20 century it is about a girl named Celie who writes her letters to God about her life and things she has dealt with since she was a child. When she was a little girl her father used to abuse her and also rape her while her mother fell sick. Soon after her mother died Celie had a child by her father and he set it up for adoption but he had her to believe that he killed it. Time went by and she had already had two kids by her dad at the age of 14 and was looking to marry a man by the name of Mr__(also known as Albert). Even with her new life away from her abusive father she found out that Mr__ was just as mean as her dad. Celie was used to being treated low and lower after the years went by. In the source used it gives you all of the things you need about the book Color Purple it gives me the main Characters in the book starting from Shug Avery, Sofia, Nettie, Mr__(aka Albert) and her father (aka Alphonso). They all played a big role in Celie’s life in many different ways. As you see Celie’s upbringing was outrageous she was picked on and called ugly her whole life, she always got the short end of the stick, and that
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Now as the time went by in the book and Nettie came to live with Celie and Mr__ and while Nettie was staying there Mr__ tried to force himself upon her but Nettie forcefully refused and Mr__ kicked Nettie off of his property and told her to never look back or else he would hurt her. When she was living Nettie promised to write Celie and later on in the book you will find out that she didn’t and that lead Celie to believe that Nettie must’ve died, when the letters stop coming in from her younger sister

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