Part one of term paper
At the tender age of fifteen, Celie, the main character in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is raped by whom she knows as her Pa. Pa forces himself upon Celie and she gets “big” or pregnant, not once, but twice. When Pa takes the children away, the first a boy and the second a girl, Celie believes that he kills them. The reader gathe ...

Part two of term paper
... to understand that her life will always be rough, and adapts to it by learning to ignore things she doesn’t like. She slips into her own world, a happy place, where no harm can enter and she is safe. This adaptation will help her to get through life, since it turns out to be a constant struggle. Celie’s mother died not too long after she had her children. Her mother cursed at her, in her final words, after she was told what her husband had done to Celie. She had thought that Celie was s ...