Kacie Griffin Part 1

Analyze your narrator. Who are they/ What do you know about them? How would you describe them? How where they characterized in the story? Did your opinion of them change? Include at least one quote in your answer.

The narrator of The Color Purple is Celie. Celie is a woman we saw mature of the course of the novel, for she was about fourteen when we started and many years passed as the novel progressed. She was beaten and raped by her stepfather as a young girl. This results in her getting pregnant twice, and her stepfather giving the children away. Celie was then married off to Mr._____. They did not love each, but they both did love Shug Avery. At first, Shug was just an idol to Celie, but after she met her, they fell in love. Celie loved Shug like she had never anyone before. Their bond was special and sincere. The only other person Celie had received love from was Nettie. Nettie is her younger sister who often wrote her from Africa. When Nettie was taken away from her, I believe that a lot of emotional damage was done on Celie. She lost hope then, and she did not even know it until years later. Celie was an evolving character who changed a lot throughout the course of the whole novel.
      At first, Celie was characterized as weak and fragile, but throughout the novel, she learned she was capable off standing up for herself. She stopped letting people walk all over her. When she fought with Mr.____ for saying she could not move to Tennessee with Shug was really the turning point for her. My opinion of her definitely changed. She was a boring charcter at first because she would almost always sit back and take the bad stuff, I felt she had no backbone or courage, but once she started being with Shug something changed. She had a fire in her that would not stop burning. Celie stopped judging herself so much with Shug, for when leaving for Mephis say tells Shug, "I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here" (Walker 207). This shows that Celie stops cares and realizes all she needs is Shug and Nettie to achieve complete happiness.