Alfonso gets remarried to a girl as young as Celie. Her second child, a boy, also is taken and sold by Alfonso.Īlfonso then looks interested in Celie’s younger sister, Nettie, but Celie promises that she will protect her Nettie. Celie is pregnant again when her mother dies. Celie can only answer that it is “God’s.” Then the child goes missing, and Celie tells her mother that God took it, though she knows that Alfonso did. When Celie has a child, her mother screams at her, asking who the father is. I am (which is crossed out by the writer) I have always been a good girl." Celie has been raped by her father while her mother was visiting the doctor in town, and Alfonso has told her that she can speak of these matters to none except God.Īfter having so many children and now being ill, Celie’s mother will not sleep with her husband, so Celie is forced to take her mother’s place. It’d kill your mammy.” After this spoken line, Celie begins her letters, written to God. The novel opens with a line of dialogue spoken by Alfonso, Celie’s father: “You better not never tell nobody but God.
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