Shug, who is a singer, begins to perform at Harpo’s juke joint. Shug Avery gradually regains her health and becomes friends with Celie.

Mister brings his lover, Shug Avery, who is ill, to live with them, and Celie begins to nurse her. When Sofia leaves with their five children, Harpo begins a juke joint in their home. Later, Sofia complains of being unhappy in her marriage and leaves Harpo. Sofia learns about it and confronts Celie, Celie apologizes, and they become friends.

Harpo and Sofia begin to have misunderstandings, and when Harpo asks Celie for advice, Celie advises Harpo to beat Sofia. His father disapproves of her and they do not get married at first, but he later defies his father and marries Sofia. Harpo falls in love with a woman called Sofia and gets her pregnant. Nettie runs away to Reverend Samuel and his wife Corrine, as suggested by Celine. At first, Mister is welcoming to Nettie but decides she must leave the house when she refuses his sexual advances. Nettie runs from Alphonso, who tried to rape her, to Celie and Mister. Then she gets pregnant again, and Alphonso also snatches the child away.Ĭelie’s mother dies after a prolonged illness, and Alphonso marries another woman while continuing to rape and molest Celie.Ī widower, known as Mister, comes to ask for Nettie’s hand in marriage, but Alphonso persuades him to marry Celie instead of Nettie, and he agrees and marries Celie.Ĭelie’s suffering continues in Mister’s home, Mister physically and emotionally abuses her, and Mister’s four children give her a tough time the first child Harpo even breaks Celie’s head with a stone on her wedding day. Celie gets pregnant the first time and gives birth, but Alphonso takes the child away, making Celie believe the child is dead. Alphonso begins to molest and rape Celie and warns her not to tell anyone but God about it. It is a story that delights as much as it horrifies.Ĭelie’s mother’s health deteriorates after her last childbirth, and she begins to deny the character of Alphonso, her husband, sex. The Color Purple has a powerful plot that touches on love, family, identity, surviving trauma and abuse, and many other social issues.

The color purple by alice walker