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The Color Purple- by Alice Walker

I selected this novel because my mom told me it was a good book. And I had heard of it before, but never read it. There was no key background information that I needed to know before I started reading this novel. A fourteen year old girl, Celie, is telling the story. As the story begins she is talking to God. She is confused about all the things happening in her life. She lives with her mom, dad, sisters, and brothers. Her mom is very sick and is dying. The girl gets raped by her father, and is now pregnant. When she finally had the baby, her father took it and sold it. She then has a second child, a boy, and he sold that one also. Her father treats her very poorly. The setting is in the past, in a country town in Georgia. The first initial problem for Celie is that she has to take care of her brothers and sisters, because her mother has passed away. But another major problem for her is that her father doesn’t want her, and has her get married to Mr.. Now that she is married do Mr._, she takes care of his house, the kids, she cooks, and cleans, and does laundry. He doesn’t pay much attention to her; he is still looking for a woman named Shug Avery. Mr._’s sisters come in to town, and Kate (his one sister) took Celie out to go get some new clothes. Then she tried to get one of the boys to help Celie with the water, but Mr._ told her no, and made her leave. Now Shug Avery is coming to town to sing, and Mr._ gets excited, and gets all dressed up to go see her.