![]() It is fitting that the only one to whom she would divulge her most secret thoughts would be God himself. Celie is, for the most part, a meek character. The epistolary nature of the novel endows the book with a natural and sweet innocence. But, as usually happens in the transition from book to film, there was still a good portion of story left to be discovered in these pages. ![]() I picked up this book expecting to already know the story, as I had seen the movie adaptation multiple times. Then she meets Shug Avery, the singer, the magic woman, and discovers not the pain of rivalry but the love and support of women. She is given in an ugly marriage to Albert, to look after his children. Celie has been raped by the man she calls father her two children are taken away from her her beloved, younger sister, Nettie has run away. So begins the story of two sisters in the harsh segregated world of the Deep South in the early part of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me …’ ![]()
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