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__The Color Purple__ The author Alice Walker was born February 9, 1944. Alice lost site in on eye when her brother had accidentally shot her with a BB gun. Althogh Alice was missing an eye she graduated from her school as the validictorian. Alice went to a college in Atlanta called Spellman after two years she transfered to Lawrence College in New York. Alice got a bachelors degree of the fine arts. She lived in New York for a short while then she moved to mississippi. Alice was awarded with the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for __//The Color Purple//__. Alice won many other awards including the Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

This book starts with a little fourteen year old girl name Celie praying to god. Celie's mom leaves her and her father to go see the docter and her father rapes her telling her she better get used to it. Celiae's mom dies during child birth and her father brings the boy out into the woods and kills him. Celie gives birth to a child that is her fathers child from when he rapes her. Then her father sells her child to a couple in Monticello. Celie's little sister gets married to a man with kids and a previuos marrage. It is belived that he killed thier mother in front of the children and he is a sexual pig.

It isnt to much later that Celia is sold to a husband who makes her cook, clean and any house work you could imagine. Celie's children begin to get older and older her son introduces a women he likes who you can tell is very pregnant. They soon get married and move in next door. Celie still constantly writes to god and her sister to try to get herself threw being beaten every day. Celie's husband brings home his mistress because she is sick. Celie enjoys the singers company and she takes care of this mistress. Celie and the mistress become great close friends. Sofia Celie's sons wife leaves him with the children and never returns. Celie's son Harpo builds a juke joint were Shug the mistress sings every night which brings in alot of bussiness. Sofia comes back with her new boy friend to the joint but when they start dancing Sofia punches him in the face. Sofia later gets in an arguement with the mayor's wife and punches her and is sent to jail.

Celie find out that Her sisters letters have been hid from her the whole time Celie is angered and is planning on leaving. Celie's great friend Shug got married but was beaten so they left together to Memphis with Celie's new husband Grady. Celie discovers a method of making pants and opens her own store called Folkspants Unlimited. She finds out that her terrible, drunken, perverted father has died which leaves her the house. Celie's sister died when her ship sunk. This leaves Celie at home fixing up the place with her new husband who has found religous fofillment which makes him a good husband. It turns out that Nettie Celie's sister has lived after #0 years of seperation they are rejoined.

Cites: Jokinen, Anniina. "Anniina's Alice Walker page." February 25, 1996 1. 7 Nov 2008 .