The Color Purple Character Analysis Essay

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In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Celie has three important characteristics, strength, innocence, and kindhearted. In the book there are several examples on why she can be labeled as strong to start it off, on when her father right molests her as a child (pg. 1). This can also be labeled as innocence because she is just a child that is innocent. Then on the next few pages Celie gets beat by her father “Pa” because he thinks she was winking at a boy when in fact she was just rubbing her eye (pg5). This can be marked as innocence because she’s just a child, and no child deserves to be beat even if she was winking at another boy even though she really wasn’t.

Celie is working her ass off cleaning doing chores and Mr._____ over another women that isn’t her (Pg26). It takes strong women to continue to do her job while her husband is crying over another women that isnt her; this can also be labeled as innocent because she doesn’t do anything to Mr._____. Celie helps carry Shug Avery which is her husbands mistress all the way to the room (pg. 45), this can be viewed as all three characteristics because a takes a strong women to carry
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For example how Mr.____ abuses her and then walking into Sofia and Harpo fighting throwing things all around the house (PG 37). Then also Shug Avery getting married and no longer having feelings for her husband Grady as she once had (pg. 122). Celie can relate to it because she doesn’t have feelings for Albert due to the way she has been treated / neglected. Celie changes throughout the novel by having a voice in the beginning of the book she never talked back to any of the people that hurt her and towards the end she shows you all the anger she had deep down inside after she finds all the letter that albert was hiding from her. Shug eventually has to calm Celie down because quote “ Celie wants to kill Mr._____ and is going

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