6/20/2023 0 Comments The color purple cliff notes![]() Suddenly, Mr._ brings his mistress, Shug Avery, home with him, for she is ill with venereal disease, and has no other salvation. Celie and Sofia develop a strong friendship, as one accepts her beatings and the other beats her husband.Ĭelie continues to write to God and Nettie, explaining her miserable life with Mr._ and hoping to reunite as soon as possible. ![]() The two eventually marry and move in next door to Celie and Mr._. She speaks her mind and flees to live with her sister Odessa. Harpo, the eldest son, falls in love with a young girl named Sofia, and introduces her to the family already swelling and pregnant. Meanwhile, Mr._ lusts after Nettie until she runs away to the Reverend Mr._'s home (with Celie's protective orders).Īs her life with Mr._ progresses, the children grow. Mr._ beats her, taunts her, and forces her to clean, cook, and look after his dirty and ungrateful children. Soon enough, "He" sells her into marriage with an older widow with four children named Mr. She and her mother give birth on the same day to "His" children "He" immediately kills the mother's baby and sells her own crying newborn. She is raped numerous times by who she believes to be her father, sees her mother beaten, and fears for her sister Nettie's life. The book opens as young Celie address God with her fears about the future. ![]()
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