African-American people have had to climb over many obstacles to get to their position today. First, was the selling of their people into slavery. Then, they endured slavery itself, being treated like an animal. After slavery was abolished, colored people still had to deal with racial discrimination and hatred. If this sounds rough, black women had it worse. African-American women had to deal with all the previously mentioned things, but they were women too! Females were oppressed almost as bad as the blacks. White women were not able to vote until the 1920. Therefore colored women had a double edged sword, they had to fight for freedom, but not be to dominate as to effect the men. Alice Walker's The Color Purple is a good example of colored women's plight. Three obstacles black women had to overcome to be able to express themselves were Racism, the lack of education, and the stereoty

The book is about a black girl, Celie, who gets molested by her father and has two children. Both children are taken away and she is told they are dead. Then she gets bargained off to this man, Mr., who becomes her husband and she becomes his slave. He beats her, makes her take care of his rotten children, cook and clean, and work his feilds. They never make love, but he rapes her. Her sister, Nettie,comes to live with them awhile and when she leaves Mr. tries to rape her. Nettie gets away, but Mr. swears Celie will never hear from her again. After many months without a word from Nettie, Celie decides she must be dead.

The book starts on a farm down in the south of America at the beginning of the 20th century. Nettie and Celie are two sisters who do a lot together. Celie (the eldest of the two sisters) is several times raped by her father(who seemed to be, after reading further, her stepfather) and he still abuses her. Several times she became a baby from him and that's why she may not go to school anymore, so she was very low educated. The father decided Celie had to go.

Some Mr. Wanted to marry Nellie, but the father was against it and made a deal: the Mr could have Celie and a cow. Celie and the Mr. Married, Celie had to look after the children of Mr.. After some time Nettie runs away from home, to go and live with Celie. But the MR. Tried to seduce her and she thought it was better to leave, so she goes back home. Mr abuses and rapes Celie often, and Celie writes more often letter

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Approximate Word count = 1010
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)