![]() ![]() Several years later, Celie eagerly accepts the responsibility of nursing Shug back to health, thus beginning a lifetime of friendship and love between the two women. Celie becomes fixated on Shug Avery, a glamorous blues singer who is her husband's mistress. ![]() _ (later called Albert) after her father strikes a bargain with the older widower, and Celie finds herself in a loveless marriage, caring for her husband's four children and being regularly raped and beaten. Celie then turns her attention to protecting her sister, Nettie, from her father's sexual advances. Celie's mother is quite ill and after cursing Celie, dies, leaving Celie alone to face her father. In the first few letters, Celie tells God that she has been raped by her father and that she is pregnant for the second time with his child. ![]() Alice Walker's The Color Purple weaves an intricate mosaic of women joined by their love for each other, the men who abuse them, and the children they care for. ![]()
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