The color purple is about a young girl named Celie. Celie's life wasn't easy because her father didn't like her, and she hat to marry a man that was in love with her sister Nettie. This novel is toll by first person. "Celie". Alice walker is the outhor of this novel. she also is the author of five more novels. Celie's father vnever believed that she was intelligent, he was always brutal with her.

The novel is like a diary, she tells everything to God. When she was fourteen she started to write to God, she said that she was always a good girl. "maybe you can give me a sing letting me know what is happening to me". Celie's mother die screaming and cussing . "Celie seid". "She screamed at me. she cussed at me". And her father "set there by the bed holding her hand an cryin, talking about don't leave me. don't go". Her father always up to no good. Celie got a little sister named Nettie she got a boyfriend in the same shape almost as her father. His wife died.