Character Sketch
In the book The Color Purple by Alice Walker, my first impression on Celie was that she was a young girl that didn’t know what was going on in life and needed someone to talk to, which was God. To start out Celie was a young caring girl that wasn’t well educated, and because her mom wasn’t alive she was the woman of the family. She didn’t know what to think and was taken advantage in abusive ways by her father. Even through all of this, she took care of all her brothers and sisters like they were her children. Celie reminds me of Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea because even though Santiago didn’t have any luck in with fishing for a while, he taught Manolin all he knew. These selfless people both went through difficult experiences but even through it all, they both cared about others more then themselves. Everyone thought that Celie was an ugly and disgraceful woman except Nellie and Shug Avery. Celie learned to not listen to everyone around her that were rude and to just rely on her heart to show her the right thing to do. The only place Celie felt like she could let out her feelings was in her letters to God. When Celie says, “For the first time in my life, I feel just right.”(p.57) This was one of the first times that Celie felt like she fit in with her family and felt loved. Celie loved life but didn’t have a very good one, until the end of the book where she met all of her family and became an independent woman.
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