She is very sweet and still a softy, because she never protests against anything, when people are telling her what to do. After her mother died, her father raped her and made her pregnant, he took away the children and forced her to live with a man, Mr. She's uncertain, shy and silent, because people are telling her that she's ugly all the time. Celie: In the beginning of the story Celie is still a young black girl. Some less important characters are Mr_ (Albert), Shug Avery, Sofia, Harpo and Squeak. Another important character is her sister Nettie. I think the main character of the book is Celie. When Celie starts telling the story, she's 14, at the end of the book she's about 55 and the Second World War has begun.

The book describes about 40 years of Celie's life, so it ends half 20th century. The story takes place in the beginning of the 20th century. Than the story is set in the village of the Olinka in the African jungle.ī. Another part of the book is about Celie's sister Netie. Celie lives on that farm the biggest part of her live, later on she moves to Memphis together with Shug. The book takes place in the South of America on a farm near a little village, where people were black and very poor. But I think the book also belongs to another genre, to the genre historical novel, because the book tells a lot about the situation of black people in the USA and Africa in the beginning of the 20th century. In the letters she writes about the things that happen to her and how she feels about that, she writes about how she feels and thinks a lot. I think the book belongs to the genre psychological novel, because the story exists of letters that Celie writes to God and later to her sister Netty. What literary genre does the book belong to? And when Celie's friend Shug explains how important it is to free yourself from traditional male and white domination and be able to enjoy life, she says: 'I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.'Ĥ. The room that she owns in a house, is all purple. When Celie is allowed to choose a new dress for the first time in her life, she chooses a purple dress. The color purple plays a very important part in the life of the main character Celie. How is the title linked to the contents of the book? Please illustrate. The color purple stands for independence, for the liberation of one's mind and feeling. I read the edition published in 1986 by The Women's Press Fiction.

What edition did you read, by what publishing house?

The book was first published in 1982 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, New Yorkī. The title of the book is ‘The Color Purple' and it's written by Alice Walker. 1.Give the title of the book and the name of the author.

The color purple book