| Booktalk
#1
Celie is a poor black girl
living in rural Georgia. Her life is a series of heartaches. She
is forced to care for her younger siblings. She has been raped by
her father and has had two babies by the time she is fourteen. Both
babies are gone. Her father has sold them. When she is twenty,
her father marries her off to Albert, a cruel, weak man who abuses her.
Celie's only hope is that her sister Nettie has escaped and is living a
good life. Celie writes to her sister year after year but never gets
any letters back. She begins to believe that her sister has died.
Celie finds a friend in an unexpected place -- Albert's mistress, Shug
Avery. Shug takes Celie under her wing and shows her love and kindness.
Shug encourages Celie to start taking control of her own life and not let
herself be abused by Albert. Can Celie find the strength to become
independent? Will Albert let her?
Booktalk #2
The color purple is about a
black twenty year old girl named Celie whose mother has died. She has been
raped and had a child who has been given away. She has always been considered
the ugly sister and the unsmart child. She is then given to a man whose
wife has recently died they had three kids so she is faced with raising
three kids who don’t really like her. She always gives in and never fights
for herself her new husbands son decides he wants to get married to a young
girl of course he is young to. They were doing very well until Harpo the
husband’s son gets married and his dad tells him he needs to beat his wife
Carrie so she will listen to him. Everything is shook up the town hussy.
But surprisingly Celie the main character looks up to Shug Avery the town
hussy. Will Celie get a back bone and stand up for her self or will she
continue to be walked all over? (Megan Garrison, Mansfield
High school student) |
