The Color Purple- Acrostic

CELIE

C- Color Purple. Celies soul is painted the color purple. She was a woman that went through plenty of hardships and faced and overcame them. At the end of the novel, Celie learns to fight back with her husband and her father. Also she becomes a happy, independent woman once she gets reunited with her whole family.

E- Everyone abuses her. Whether it was physically or emotionally, all throughout Celie’s life people abused her and took control of her. She had been born being abused so throughout her whole life Celie didn’t know any better. She thought that it was a way of life, but Celie always dreamed of not being hurt and being able to be independent and strong.

L- Love. Celie had a kind and loving soul and treated everyone with respect. Even the people she hated most, she still was nice and obeyed them. Her sister Nettie, and her best friend Shug Avery were the people she loved most in life. Without them, she didn’t have any reason to live. Celie even cared about her children that she thought were hers and her fathers but later found out that he wasn’t her real father.

I- Invisible. Everyone thought that Celie was ugly and mistreated. Therefore she thought that trying to be invisible and silent would hopefully ensure her survival. This plan worked for Celie, but it made her life miserable. Because her dad and husband said she was a mistake and that she would have been better not born, Celie never had the self-confidence to rise up and prove them wrong.

E- Every reason for doubting God. During Celie’s life, she had a lot of doubts towards God. This was because in all of the awful times she went through, she asked where God was in all of this and why he wasn’t helping her. She wrote letters to God every day, which was like a diary. But once she gave up hope on God because he wasn’t doing anything she started to address her diary to Nettie, her sister. In the end Celie learns how to love God once again.