Why Cant Celie Have Babies on the Color Purple

The novel's protagonist, at the beginning of the novel Celie is placidity, passive, and able to express herself simply through letters to God. As a teenager she is repeatedly raped by her father (later revealed to be her stepfather), Pa, and gives birth to two children, Olivia and Adam, whom her stepfather gives away and who are raised by a missionary couple. Celie is then married off to Mr. _____, who wants her merely for her piece of work ethic and regularly beats her. Celie tries to protect her sister, Nettie, and helps her to run abroad first from Pa and then from Mr. ____ when both attempt to rape her, likewise, at different times. Celie'due south attempts to become free of the men in her life, to observe her sexuality and to acquire to dearest (both primarily through the female person vocaliser Shug Avery), to gain both her social and emotional independence, to find spiritual satisfaction and connection to God, and to find Nettie grade the drama of the book, which is constructed as a series of letters between Celie and God, and betwixt Celie and Nettie.

Celie Quotes in The Colour Royal

The The Color Regal quotes beneath are all either spoken past Celie or refer to Celie. For each quote, you tin as well see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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Honey God, I am fourteen years old. I am I have always been a proficient daughter. Perchance yous can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

Related Characters: Celie (speaker)

Related Symbols: God

Page Number: 1

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I continue hoping he fine somebody to marry. I come across him looking at my piddling sister. She scared. Only I say I'll take care of yous. With God assistance.

Related Symbols: God

Page Number: 4

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Fact is, I got to get rid of her. She too sometime to exist living here at home. And she a bad influence on my other girls . . . . She own't smart either, and I'll just exist fair, you have to watch her or she'll give away everything you own. But she can work like a man.

Page Number: 9

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I lay there thinking bout Nettie while he [Mr. _____] on top of me, wonder if she condom. And then I think bout Shug Avery. I know what he doing to me he done to Shug Avery and mayhap she like it. I put my arm around him.

Page Number: xiii

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I tin can't remember existence the first 1 in my own dress. At present to have one fabricated just for me. I try to tell Kate what information technology hateful. I git hot in the face and stutter.

Page Number: 22

Explanation and Analysis:

Lord, I want to go [to meet Shug Avery] and so bad. Not to trip the light fantastic. Not to drink. Not to play card. Not even to hear Shug Avery sing. I just be thankful to lay eyes on her.

Related Symbols: God

Page Number: 26

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Sofia look half her size. Just she all the same a large strong girl. Arms got muscle. Legs, also. . . . She got a niggling pot on her now and requite y'all the feeling she all there. Solid. Like if she sit down on something, it exist brew.

Related Characters: Celie (speaker), Sofia

Folio Number: 36

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They fight. He try to slap her. What he exercise that for? She reach down and catch a piece of stove woods and whack him cantankerous the eyes . . . She throw him over her back. He fall bam up gainst the stove.

Page Number: 39

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What that vocal? I ast. Sound low downwards dingy to me. Like what the preacher tell y'all its sin to hear. Not to mention sing.

She hum a piffling more. Something come up to me, she say. Something I fabricated up. Something you help scratch out my head.

Folio Number: 55

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I don't know, say Sofia. Maybe I won't become. Deep down I still love Harpo, but—he merely makes me real tired. She yawn. Laugh. I need a vacation, she say.

Page Number: 70

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What Sofia gon say bout what y'all doing to her house? I ast. Spose she and the children come back. Where they gon slumber.

They ain't coming back, say Harpo, nailing together planks for a counter.

Page Number: 74

Caption and Analysis:

Sofia say to me today, I just can't sympathise it.
What that? I ast.
Why we ain't already kill them off.

Likewise many to kill off, I say. U.s. outnumbered from the starting time.

Related Characters: Celie (speaker), Sofia (speaker)

Page Number: 105

Caption and Analysis:

She singing all over the country these days. Everybody know her name. She know everybody, too. Know Sophie Tucker, know Knuckles Ellington, know folks I ain't never heard of. And coin. She brand then much money she don't know what to do with information technology.

Folio Number: 114

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Only God, I miss you, Celie. I think nigh the time yous laid yourself downwardly for me. I love you with all my eye.

Related Symbols: God

Page Number: 133

Explanation and Analysis:

She say, My get-go step from the erstwhile white man was trees. Then air. And so birds. Then other pope. But 1 twenty-four hours . . information technology come to me: that feeling of beingness office of everything, not separate at all. It sort of similar you know what, she say, smiling and rubbing high up on my thigh.

Shug! I say.

Related Symbols: God

Page Number: 203

Explanation and Analysis:

So she took some cedar sticks out of her pocketbook and lit them and gave 1 of them to me. United states started at the very top of the business firm . . . and us smoked information technology all the way down to the basement, chasing out all the evil and making a place for proficient.

Related Symbols: God

Page Number: 253

Caption and Analysis:

And I run across they [the children] retrieve that me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa existent quondam . . . Simply I don't think united states of america feel sometime at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I call back this the youngest us e'er felt.

Related Characters: Celie (speaker), Nettie, Mr. _____ (Albert), Shug Avery, Sofia, Harpo, Samuel, Adam, Olivia, Tashi, Jack and Odessa

Related Symbols: God

Page Number: 295

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Celie Character Timeline in The Colour Imperial

The timeline below shows where the graphic symbol Celie appears in The Colour Majestic. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

The unnamed primary grapheme, who is afterwards revealed to exist named Celie, writes a start letter to God, saying that she is fourteen, and that she wonders... (full context)

Celie reveals that her female parent is ill and unwilling, at the moment, to slumber with Celie's... (full context)

After these sexual assaults begin, Celie's father is nicer to her mother, but Celie knows that her mother volition non live... (total context)

In a second letter, Celie describes how her female parent dies "cussing and screaming." Celie is meaning, and Celie's mother, equally... (total context)

Celie writes that Pa took her first-born child away from her (this child is later revealed... (full context)

Celie writes that Pa has taken her other child, the male child, from her. But Celie does... (full context)

Celie's father marries a daughter (not named; referred to as Celie'southward stepmother) who is nearly the... (full context)

Celie's father beats her because he thinks she is winking at a boy in church, although... (full context)

Celie worries that her father will begin sexually abusing Nettie, so she changes her mind and... (full context)

Mr. ____ asks for Nettie'southward hand in union, but Celie'south father refuses, saying that Mr. ____ is surrounded past scandal, since he's a widower considering... (full context)

Celie asks her stepmother who Shug Avery is. Her stepmother gets a picture of Shug, which... (total context)

Celie'due south stepmother gets sick and must stay in bed. Celie tells her male parent to sleep with... (full context)

Mr. ____ comes once again to ask for Nettie'southward hand in marriage. Celie's father says no, again, just tells him he can marry Celie, the older daughter, despite... (full context)

Mr. ____ says that Celie is unattractive, just her father says she is a good worker, that she can no... (total context)

It takes Mr. ____ near of the leap to determine whether or not to marry Celie. In the meantime, Celie and Nettie study together, although merely Nettie is notwithstanding in schoolhouse.... (full context)

Celie's begetter took Celie out of school the showtime time she got meaning, saying that Nettie... (full context)

...says he needs a woman to take care of his children, and asks to encounter Celie once again. Celie'due south male parent repeats that Celie would exist a practiced stepmother. Mr. ____ asks whether... (full context)

On the day of her wedding ceremony, Celie is attacked by ane of Mr. ____'s children, the oldest male child, aged twelve. This boy,... (full context)

Celie tries, after the wedding ceremony, to detangle Mr. ____'southward daughters' hair, and realizes the two... (total context)

Celie, out in town one day (the "town" is not named explicitly, merely it is probably... (full context)

Celie follows Olivia and her stepmother into a store. Celie asks who the child'due south father is,... (total context)

The Reverend is not yet present to pick up his married woman and girl, so Celie invites them into her husband'southward wagon, waiting outside the store. They sit together for a... (full context)

Celie asks the mother the daughter's name, and the mother says "Pauline," but that they call... (full context)

...sexual advances, although Nettie feels guilty abandoning her stepmother to Pa'southward abusive ways. Nettie joins Celie and Mr. ____ in their dwelling nearby. (total context)

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Celie reports that Mr. ____ still "has eyes" for Nettie. Nettie continues studying for school while... (full context)

...to have sexual practice with her. Nettie refuses Mr. ____, thus angering him. Mr. ____ tells Celie, equally a result of Nettie'southward refusal, that Nettie must leave their house. Celie gives Nettie... (total context)

...is happy to leave Mr. ____ and his "rotten" children, but feels guilty to leave Celie. She promises Celie she will write to her when she reaches the business firm of the... (total context)

Mr. ____'s sisters, named Kate and Carrie, visit Celie at home with Mr. ____ and tell her about Mr. ____'southward beginning married woman, Annie Julia.... (full context)

...conceited, untrustworthy, and a adult female who loves the visitor of many unlike men. They praise Celie's housekeeping skills, although they appear to acknowledge, implicitly, that Celie is not equally attractive as... (full context)

Kate tells Mr. ____ that Celie needs new clothes; Celie has been wearing the same clothes in Mr ___'due south house that... (total context)

...do all the work at home, even difficult labor like carrying in water. Kate tells Celie to fight Mr. ____, but Celie thinks that she knows ameliorate how to deal with... (full context)

Harpo asks his father why he beats Celie; Mr. ____ answers that he beats her because she's his married woman. When Celie is beaten... (total context)

Harpo, who is seventeen, tells Celie he is in love with a daughter who is fifteen. Celie says they are too... (full context)

...non seen her for an undefined but pregnant menstruation of time). He shaves and asks Celie to launder and iron his clothes, in order to make a proficient impression on her.... (full context)

Celie sees a re-create of the bill advertising Shug'due south show. Celie wants to become: non to... (total context)

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...the entire long weekend with Shug. When he comes dwelling house, without Shug, he is distraught. Celie wants to hear about her—what she wore, how she performed, what their time together was... (full context)

Mr. ____ stops working in the fields altogether. He sits on the porch and tells Celie and Harpo that they must work in the fields and continue the plowing he has... (full context)

...and then is shot in the tummy. Harpo wakes up from the dreams yelling, and Celie comes to him in the nighttime to comforts him. (full context)

People say that Celie is skilled with Mr. ____'due south children, but the three children other than Harpo are mean... (full context)

...again, that he wants to marry her, and reveals that he has gotten Sofia pregnant. Celie tells Harpo that Sofia's male parent will be angry nearly this, but Harpo thinks the situation... (full context)

Harpo's and Sofia'southward wedding is pocket-size but relatively happy. Celie makes curtains for their new dwelling house. Harpo has begun working harder in the fields, since... (total context)

...Harpo seems happy with his Sofia, but still wants her to "mind" him. Harpo asks Celie what to do; Celie says that, to make Sofia heed, Harpo must beat her. It... (total context)

Harpo returns to Mr. ____'south habitation 1 day, looking cutting-up and bruised. Harpo explains to Celie that he got in a tussle with an obdurate mule, but Celie knows that Harpo... (full context)

1 24-hour interval, Celie is walking past Sofia and Harpo's shack, near the edge of Mr. _____'due south property, when... (full context)

Celie has problem sleeping and is not sure why, at kickoff. Then she realizes she has... (full context)

Celie admits that she was jealous of Sofia's power to stand upwardly to Harpo; Celie is... (total context)

Sofia admits that she feels pitiful for Celie, who has no power over Mr. ____, but instead must do exactly as Mr. ____... (full context)

Sofia and Celie end upwards laughing nigh Mr. ____, whom Sofia says Celie should crevice on the skull... (full context)

...is either tuberculosis or a "nasty woman disease," caught from one of Shug'due south many lovers. Celie begins helping the preacher out around the church, cleaning the pews after services, and the... (full context)

...to his habitation, he has brought Shug with him. He calls to Harpo, Sofia, and Celie to prepare the house for their ill invitee. (total context)

Celie is excited that Shug is coming to stay with them—so excited, she tin can barely speak... (full context)

When Celie talks to Mr. ____ about Shug, he says it's OK past him if Celie wants... (full context)

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...they have had three children together, Mr. ____ is nervous about giving Shug a bath. Celie therefore offers to breast-stroke Shug, and gazes in wonder at Shug'southward naked body, which Celie... (full context)

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Shug asks if Celie has children; Celie replies that she has two, but that she does non know where... (total context)

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Celie cooks a large breakfast for the family—eggs, biscuits, ham—and asks if Shug would like some.... (full context)

Celie helps Shug by combing out her hair, which hasn't been combed for a very long... (full context)

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...to her in her sickness. Mr. ____'s father considers Shug to be a "muddied" woman. Celie spits in Mr. ____'s father's water, because she is enraged by his rough statements well-nigh... (full context)

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...living taking in laundry for white families. He considers this disgraceful. Mr. ____'southward father tells Celie that not many wives would permit their married man'southward "whore" to live with them. Mr. ____... (full context)

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...wellness and talks about his married woman, Margaret, who, he claims, doesn't work as hard as Celie. Celie knows that Tobias and Mr. ____'s father, though they are concerned but with coin... (full context)

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...comes out and says howdy to Tobias. She then tries to learn to sew together from Celie, who has been stitching on the porch during the conversation with Tobias, just Shug'southward stitches... (total context)

Sofia and Celie have begun working on a large quilt that Celie wants either to give to Shug... (full context)

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Some unspecified time later, Sofia asks Celie why men swallow as much as they do. Apparently Harpo has been eating a slap-up... (full context)

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Celie observes Harpo'due south eating the side by side time Harpo comes to her house. Harpo has cornbread and... (total context)

Celie finds Harpo one evening in her house, crying to himself. Harpo is upset that he... (full context)

Celie says that she married Mr. ____ to await after his children; the 2 practise not... (total context)

Celie talks to Sofia, who is fixing the roof of her and Harpo's shack. Sofia tells... (total context)

This conversation causes Celie to think about her ain marriage. Celie thinks about her lovemaking with Mr. ____; he... (full context)

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...children (these children are not named) to stay with her sister Odessa for a while. Celie asks Harpo whether he wants to finish Sofia, but he says there'southward cipher he tin can... (full context)

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...child Sofia will take with her), equally she chop-chop says goodbye to him and to Celie. Sofia mounts up on a carriage with her sisters and the children, and drives away. (full context)

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...six months. In the meantime, Harpo does some "traveling" of his own, as he tells Celie, and Celie realizes that Harpo has come to observe that he's an attractive man, and... (full context)

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...police, as information technology will be hidden enough by the fields and the woods behind them. Celie asks Harpo what Sofia volition think of the jukejoint, merely Harpo replies that Sofia is... (full context)

Shug prepares to sing ane dark, and Celie and Mr. ____ accompany her to the bar, despite Mr. ____'s protestations that Celie should... (full context)

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Shug sings a few songs, much to Celie's delight. But Celie enjoys looking at Shug so much, she grows confused and starts to... (full context)

Shug begins growing stronger, and tells Celie it volition before long be time for her to leave their Mr. ____'south dwelling house. Shug is... (total context)

Shug asks why Mr. ____ beats Celie, and Celie explains that he'south upset because Celie is Celie, and not Shug. He is... (total context)

Shug begins staying in Mr. ____'south room, specially after she sings at Harpo'south. Shug asks Celie whether Celie minds that she has sex with Mr. ____, and Celie says she doesn't... (full context)

Shug asks Celie if she has touched her own clitoris, or if she knows that doing so will... (full context)

Afterward, Celie repeats that she does non mind when Shug sleeps with Mr. ____. Merely Celie so... (full context)

Celie realizes that Sofia has started a new life with Buster. Celie feels that her ain... (full context)

Sofia, however, as Celie describes, does not deal in slaps, only rather punches Squeak in the confront, knocking out... (total context)

Some unspecified corporeality of time later, Celie asks Squeak why Harpo is moping, and Squeak replies that Sofia has been thrown in... (total context)

...He goes to the jail to exercise then, and somewhen convinces the Sheriff to permit Celie visit as well. Celie, when she visits later on, combs Sofia's pilus and is horrified by... (total context)

When Celie and Mr. ____ visit Sofia in jail some fourth dimension afterwards, they find that Sofia has... (full context)

At dinner afterwards, Mr. ____, Celie, Shug, Odessa, Buster, and the residue of the family recollect of how to get Sofia... (full context)

Shug, Mr. ____, and Celie dress Squeak upward to resemble a white woman, applying extra make-upward to her confront to... (full context)

...singing effectually the house. Her phonation is strange and loftier-pitched, not formally trained, merely everyone, Celie includes, grows to dear it. Harpo is surprised by Squeak'southward singing, only he lets Squeak... (full context)

Some months later on, Celie visits with Sofia while Sofia is watching the mayor's children on the mayor'southward property (which... (full context)

Sofia continues in her conversation with Celie by wondering how white people manage to do anything—Sofia believes white people are ignorant and... (full context)

...the children, and intendance for the house, 24 hours a 24-hour interval. This is why, if Celie wants to see Sofia, she must visit Sofia on the mayor's property. (full context)

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...Mr. ____'s business firm with a man named Grady, whom she announces as her husband to Celie and Mr. ____. Celie feels at once that she does not like Grady, and Mr.... (full context)

Mr. ____ and Grady spend the Christmas holiday drinking, and Shug and Celie catch up and talk. Shug has become incredibly successful, singing all over the country—she has... (full context)

Shug asks whether Mr. ____ withal beats Celie. Celie replies that Mr. ____ is kinder to her, in full general, though he still beats... (full context)

1 twenty-four hour period Mr. ____ and Grady go off together, and Celie and Shug talk once again. Shug asks Celie nearly the father of Celie's children. Celie answers... (total context)

At the finish of the story, Celie begins to cry—the enormity of these feelings, about which she rarely speaks, having come back... (full context)

...Mr. ____ return, and Mr. ____ tells Shug to leave the bed she's sharing with Celie (they accept finished making dearest), so he tin sleep with Celie, and Shug can sleep... (full context)

This letter includes the full text of another alphabetic character Celie has received—from Nettie. The letter from Nettie says that she, Nettie, is safe and happy,... (total context)

Shug reports to Celie that she has seen Mr. ____ at the mailbox, taking messages with "funny stamps" and... (full context)

Shug and Mr. ____ become physically intimate over again, and Grady and Celie are upset—since they both honey Shug. Celie has trouble believing that Mr. ____ could be... (full context)

One day, Celie becomes so enraged with Mr. ____ that she picks up a razor and considers slitting... (full context)

Shug lies with Celie in Celie'due south room 1 night, and tries to talk with her, while Celie stews over... (full context)

Shug says that, first, when she came to Celie's firm, she wanted only to come up betwixt her and Mr. ____ But Shug quickly realized... (full context)

Shug and Celie realize that Mr. ____ keeps the letters from Nettie in a trunk in his chamber.... (full context)

Nettie's showtime alphabetic character describes the immediate aftermath of her departure from Celie's and Mr. ____'s business firm, when Mr. ____ chased her down the road and tried to... (total context)

Nettie fled into the town and stopped at the Reverend's house, where Celie had told her to go. Nettie recognized the young girl, the Reverend'southward girl Olivia, as... (full context)

...is following through on his promise—that he is not, in fact, delivering Nettie'due south letters to Celie, but rather hiding them somewhere, and that this is preventing Celie from responding to Nettie.... (full context)

The next alphabetic character from Nettie arrives two months alphabetic character. Nettie has been writing Celie letters from a steamer transport; she is headed to Africa, with the Reverend and Corrine,... (full context)

...finishing reading these messages from Nettie—and puzzling over the words in them she does not understand—Celie tells Shug that she once again wishes to kill Mr. ____, for hiding the letters away... (total context)

Celie says, by way of bargaining, that she won't impale Mr. ____ if Shug tin convince... (full context)

Celie is still aroused with Mr. ____, and this dampens her sexual desires for Shug. Shug... (total context)

Celie begins to experience proud that Nettie and her children are still alive—she "struts" around her... (full context)

Celie opens another letter of the alphabet from Nettie; Celie and Shug take stolen all the trunk'south letters, hiding... (total context)

Celie reads another of Nettie'south letters. Nettie has been working hard in the hamlet, from early... (full context)

...then describes her small hut, and says that she wishes she had a picture of Celie to put in it, adjacent to her motion-picture show of Jesus Christ. (full context)

Celie reads another of Nettie'due south letters. Nettie is visited past Tashi's begetter and mother, who argue... (full context)

...(killed) the iii blackness men and burned down the store. The owner they killed was Celie's and Nettie's biological father. (total context)

Upon learning of her husband's death, Celie's and Nettie's female parent then began a long slide into mental illness. A new human began... (full context)

...the community, and pretended that the children Olivia and Adam were children he had by Celie'due south and Nettie'southward mother's, and not past Celie. Pa lied to Samuel, maxim that the family... (full context)

Celie writes a brief alphabetic character to God, in response to Nettie'southward information, saying she cannot believe... (total context)

Celie decides that she wants to see Pa, to ask about the information she has simply... (full context)

Shug and Celie drive to Pa'south house, which is a now a large white construction, on beautiful land,... (full context)

Celie tells Pa, in front of Daisy and Shug, that she knows he is their stepfather.... (full context)

Celie asks Pa where her biological male parent and mother are buried. Pa says he does not... (total context)

...and Samuel attempt to convince Corrine that Nettie is the children'southward biological aunt, and that Celie is their biological mother. But Corrine refuses to believe, even though she has observed Nettie'due south... (full context)

...again to convince Corrine, attempting to remind Corrine of the time she and Olivia met Celie in the cloth store back in Georgia. Nettie brings out a quilt fabricated with the... (full context)

Corrine suddenly announces that, on that twenty-four hour period, she was agape Celie was the real mother to Olivia, and that Celie would desire to have Olivia back.... (total context)

Nettie ends the letter to Celie hoping that the Olinka can somehow preserve their land in the face up of the English... (total context)

Celie tells Shug that she no longer writes to God—she writes to Nettie. This letter is... (full context)

Celie and Shug have a discussion nearly faith, after Celie decides to end writing to God.... (full context)

Shug asks Celie what her God looks similar, and Celie replies that her God is a white homo.... (total context)

...white man, to believing that God was found in nature, fifty-fifty establish in human being pleasure. Celie has trouble believing this at first, thinking that perhaps Shug is the one blaspheming, but... (full context)

Celie continues, in the letter, by proverb to Nettie that she is trying to observe God... (full context)

...maid to the mayor and his wife's children, six months early, and is released to Celie'southward and Mr. ____'s habitation. Her children have barely seen her and accept grown up with... (total context)

Later on dinner one night, Shug announces that she and Celie are leaving for Memphis, along with Grady, who is still living with Shug at Celie'due south... (full context)

Celie tells Harpo, too, that he is partially responsible for Sofia'due south service to the mayor's family,... (full context)

Celie begins to recognize that Grady is falling for Squeak, as they prepare (Grady and Squeak,... (full context)

Celie loves Shug's house in Memphis, which is large and pink, and built on a circular... (full context)

When Shug is habitation, she cooks large meals for Celie and Grady and Squeak, but when Shug is on the road she works difficult, sings... (full context)

Shug encourages Celie to make more pants and to start a small business selling these pants. For the... (full context)

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Celie hires 2 older unmarried women to assistance her to make the pants that she (Celie)... (total context)

Celie goes back to Georgia, from Memphis, to visit Harpo and Sofia, who are having arguments,... (full context)

Celie reports to Harpo and Sofia that, in Memphis, Grady and Squeak have been smoking big... (total context)

Celie sees Mr. ____ at Sofia's mother'south funeral. Mr. ____ has "found religion," and appears to... (full context)

Celie remembers that Nettie one time mentioned "African sickness" to her in a letter, and that this... (full context)

Celie reads another of Nettie's letters. Nettie reports that she has married Samuel, and she begins... (full context)

Celie addresses some other alphabetic character to Nettie (it is unsaid that Celie has replaced her messages to... (total context)

Celie writes once again to Nettie, proverb that Shug has run off with someone else—a very young... (full context)

Celie tells Nettie how Shug described Germaine to her, and asked Celie to understand that her... (full context)

Shug leaves Memphis with Germaine, and Celie returns to her new dwelling in Georgia. There she watches Henrietta battle her illness. The... (full context)

Mr. ____ and Celie take a conversation about Shug's departure and about Celie's pant concern. Celie tells Mr. ____... (full context)

Celie writes to Nettie, saying that she has received a annotation from the Section of Defense... (full context)

Nettie writes to Celie, proverb that Tashi and her mother take gone into the woods to live with the... (total context)

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Celie writes to Nettie, yet assertive that Nettie is live, despite hearing no news from her.... (full context)

Mr. ____ tries to talk to Celie, apologizing for keeping Nettie's messages from her. Simply Celie feels that she does not detest... (full context)

Sofia tells Celie and Albert stories well-nigh Eleanor Jane, who is now married to a man named Stanley... (full context)

Shug writes to Celie and says that she lives in Arizona, now, with Germaine, who teaches on an Indian... (full context)

Celie and Albert talk more nigh Shug, each discussing how much they've loved her, and how... (full context)

Celie teaches Albert how to sew a few stitches, and they brainstorm talking well-nigh life in... (full context)

Celie continues the story past maxim that, when white Christian missionaries told the Africans most Adam... (full context)

Celie finishes the story by saying that, for the Olinkans, white acrimony, and the desire to... (full context)

Nettie writes to Celie, proverb that Adam and Tashi accept returned from the mbeles, where they saw a large... (total context)

Celie has hired Sofia to work in her shop, equally a clerk, and Sofia has made... (full context)

Celie has another conversation with Mr. ____, whose transition into a good man appears to be... (total context)

Shug returns, saying that Germaine has left her to go to higher. Celie shows Shug her room in the new firm, Celie'southward house, now painted purple and red,... (full context)

Celie addresses this final letter to "God," but this time it is a new God—one of... (full context)

Later on a long cover, the families introduce themselves to i another, and Celie shares time with her ii grown children. Anybody is so happy, the scene is most... (full context)

...the novel's characters are now in ane place for the first fourth dimension. At the reunion, Celie remarks that the African family, especially Tashi, Adam, and Olivia "speak a picayune funny," but... (full context)

Celie closes the novel by saying that, though she knows she is growing older, and has... (full context)

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