What is the storyline of The Color Purple?

The Color Purple documents the traumas and gradual triumph of Celie, an African American teenager raised in rural isolation in Georgia, as she comes to resist the paralyzing self-concept forced on her by others. Celie narrates her life through painfully honest letters to God.

What happened to the baby in The Color Purple?

Celie writes that Alphonso stole Celie’s first baby while she was sleeping and killed it in the woods, and she believes he will kill her second baby as well. However, Alphonso does not kill the second baby, and Celie suspects that he instead sold the child to a married couple.

What happens at the end of the Colour purple?

At the novel’s end, the two sisters are reunited, while Albert and Harpo have learned to take on new roles in the household and in their relationships. Note that the novel’s title is alluded to in Letter 12, when Celie associates the color purple with royalty and longs for a purple dress.

Who is the hero in The Color Purple?

Celie
Celie. The protagonist and narrator of The Color Purple. Celie is a poor, uneducated black woman with a sad personal history.

What happened to Celie children?

Nettie asks Samuel to tell her how he adopted Olivia and Adam. Based on Samuel’s story, Nettie realizes that the two children are actually Celie’s biological children, alive after all. Nettie also learns that Alphonso is really only Nettie and Celie’s step-father, not their real father.

What did Celie’s father do to her?

When Celie is 14 this stepfather, whom she believes (because nobody talks about the lynched) is her father, begins to rape her, causing the birth of two children whom he gives away to an old friend who has become a missionary.

Is The Color Purple a real story?

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name….The Color Purple.