![]() ![]() Women are used as baby-makers, cleaners, caretakers, cooks, labourers, and get nothing in return, not even a loving home. This is a world where domestic violence is normalised, rape is common, and black people live under constant threat from white people. It’s this believability and raw honesty which makes the book remarkable. It’s as if Celie is just an ordinary person and you have stumbled across her prayer book. It’s not a mystery and it’s not a thriller. Conjure up flowers, wind, water, a big rock." Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. ![]() Then after while every time I got mad, or start to feel mad, I got sick. Bible say, Honor father and mother no matter what. Couldn't be mad at my daddy cause he my daddy. I used to git mad at my mammy cause she put a lot of work on me. "I can't even remember the last time I felt mad, I say. Trapped in a bad marriage and after suffering years of male abuse, she finally meets the glamorous and beguiling Shug Avery, a woman who has taken charge of her own destiny, and who will help Celie do the same. In the deep American South between the wars, Celie is born into poverty and segregation. ![]()
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