Book club Blog Critique

"THE COLOR PURPLE"

In the book the Color Purple a young girl named Celie has been getting raped by her father because her mother was very sick and could not give pleasure to him. Celie was a very young girl who had lots of things that could have been done in her life but all was messed when She had two children by her father. On the first page Celie gets raped and as I could have infered she had none or not many friends. She had this thing where she was told by her mother that she should only talk to God and tell him all of problems. The her and her little sister Nettie seen a man in church one day and seen a man. A few years later Celie ended up marrying this man even if she had not wanted to she was forced to take his hand in marriage. He would beat on her for not being the pretty famous woman named Shug Avery. Shug comes along and saves Celie and Celie was taken away from her sister Nettie and years and more years came and at the end Nettie came back and they felt like little girls again.


I don't think that many people in the world should make text to self connections because it might just be to personal and painful to bare or remember.
I can relate this to the things that have happened in the world like sexism, racism and prejudice things where put into this book and to show how people were treated back then. For example in the Diary of Anne Frank this girl experienced sexism and also racism because she was a young Jewish girl. In Celie's case she was very young black dark skin girl who people did not find attractive and what made it worse was the fact that she got pregnant by her father who in later years she found out was not her biological father he was her step dad. Her real father died.

I think the funniest part of the book was on the end when Nettie came back to see Celie after years and years of not seeing each other Celie said in quote "When Nettie step foot in front of the porch i almost died" I think the saddest part of the story was Celie and Nettie were taken apart from each other I almost cried because it was lie that with me and my big sister when she had to go away.