You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
4.29 AVERAGE
4.29 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Before I know it, tears meet under my chin. And I'm confuse. He love looking at Shug. I love looking at Shug. But Shug don't love looking at but one of us. Him. But that the way it spose to be. I know that. but if that so, why my heart hurt me so? [....] She say this song I'm bout to sing is call Miss Celie's song. [...] First time somebody made something and name it after me.
It had never occurred to me, though when you read the bible it is perfectly plain if you pay attention only to the words. It is the pictures in the bible that fool you. The pictures that illustrate the words. All of the people are white and so you just think all the people from the bible were white too.
Did I mention my first sight of the African coast? Something struck in me, in my soul, Celie, like a large bell, and I just vibrated. Corrine and Samuel felt the same. And we kneeled down right on deck and gave thanks to God for letting us see the land for which our mothers and fathers cried - and lived and died - to see again.
The Olinka do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something. You are not much, she said. The missionary's drudge.
Shug say, Us each other's people now, and kiss me.
He's a man. I write on the paper. [...] But I'm a woman. I love you, I say. Whatever happen, whatever you do, I love you.
Sometimes I think Shrug never love me. I stand looking at my naked self in the looking glass. What would she love? [...] My heart must be young and fresh though, it feel like it blooming blood. [...] Celie, I say, happiness was just a trick in your case. Just cause you never had any before Shug, you thought it was time to have some, and that it was gon last. Even thought you had the trees with you. The whole earth. The stars. But look at you. When Shug left, happiness desert.
She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights. The only thing bother me is she don't never say nothing bout coming back. And I miss her. [...] Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself.
When it come to what folks do together with they bodies, he say, anybody's guess is as good as mine. But when you talk bout love I don't have to guess. I have love and I have been love. And I thank God he let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. It don't surprise me you love Shug Avery, he say. I have love Shug Avery all my life.
Well, I say, we all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, and our own self is what us have to hand.
Then Adam spoke. He asked Tashi to forgive his initial stupid response to the sacrification. And to forgive the repugnance he'd felt about the female initiation ceremony. [...] So, the next day, our boy came to us with scars identical to Tashi's on his cheeks. And they are happy. So happy, Celie. Tashi and Adam Omatangu.
Shug write me she coming home. Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then i figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book makes you think about life, love, pain, spirituality, time, change, family, racism, society rules, and death. I thought this book would make me sad but instead it made me think.
It is an absolute crime that I have never read this book - we never read it at school and as the years passed I think that I just found it becoming more and more intimidating. I got it into my head that the book would be really difficult to read, despite the fact that it is actually a really small book. However this was on my list of "books that I am ashamed that I haven't read yet" list so I knew that I had to read it soon.
And it is not difficult to read at all - I actually found that the writing was very matter of fact and almost unemotional, at least at the start. The book is written in the form of letters that the main character Celie writes to God and latterly to her sister. In essence the story starts incredibly bleak and then gradually becomes more hopeful and bright as you get to the end of the book.
At the start of the novel, Celie is raped multiple times by her stepfather and bears two children who are then taken away from her. She is then forced to marry Mister (who is actually more interested in marrying her sister) and she becomes stepmother to 4 horrible children and slave to the house. But her life improves when Shug, the beautiful singer appears in their lives and Celie falls madly in love with her at first sight. From this moment Celie begins to find the strength to stand up to her husband and leave with Shug.
I absolutely loved this book - I loved the writing style, the format, and the characters. And as you get through the book you can see the real Celie coming out, and becoming more confident in her love of Shug. The story is so beautiful and I thought that the ending was near perfection.
And it is not difficult to read at all - I actually found that the writing was very matter of fact and almost unemotional, at least at the start. The book is written in the form of letters that the main character Celie writes to God and latterly to her sister. In essence the story starts incredibly bleak and then gradually becomes more hopeful and bright as you get to the end of the book.
At the start of the novel, Celie is raped multiple times by her stepfather and bears two children who are then taken away from her. She is then forced to marry Mister (who is actually more interested in marrying her sister) and she becomes stepmother to 4 horrible children and slave to the house. But her life improves when Shug, the beautiful singer appears in their lives and Celie falls madly in love with her at first sight. From this moment Celie begins to find the strength to stand up to her husband and leave with Shug.
I absolutely loved this book - I loved the writing style, the format, and the characters. And as you get through the book you can see the real Celie coming out, and becoming more confident in her love of Shug. The story is so beautiful and I thought that the ending was near perfection.
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
