This book is not as same as most novels. It consists of a series of letters, they are written by a girl whose name is Celie, she was the also the main character in the book. Those letters didn’t show up the dates for us. And I read it so carefully, watching for clues about the telling details. Also, that girl doesn’t sign her letters for a long time. She was not educated enough. That’s why the way she wrote was exactly as she speaks and thinks. But the special thing about her writing is the naturalness of those letters.

Celie , a nearly illiterate black Georgia girl, writes short notes to God. She is only fourteen, but she needs to do cooking, cleaning, and caring for a multitude of brothers and sisters because of her mother’s falling health. She has a little sister. Her name is Nettie, and Celie loves her more than anyone else in the world. Celie’s mother loses her mind after her husband is lynched, multilated, and burned, finally is killed. And after that, her mother became a widow, she married again with a man whose name is Fonso. He becomes Celie and Nettie’s stepfather. Fanso chooses a man to marry Celie, his name is Mr. _ / Albert. Before, Albert got a wife, but she is killed by her boyfriend when she is coming home from church one day. Also, Albert got an immature son, his name is Harpo, and he has a wife whose name is Sofia. She is an outspoken and independent wife. Bud is Harpo and Sofia’s son, he is very bad, and he is in and out of jail frequently. For that little girl, Celie, she faces adulthood believing that she has been raped by her father. And her father killed both of their babies. She has very little self-confidence. She feels unloved. No one has made her feel valuable. Therefore, she wants to speak all the things to God. But even in God’s company, Celie feels of little worth. For the half of the story, Celie’s method of resistance to violence of all kinds is to stoically endure, to pretend that she is wood, a tree bending but not breaking, This psychology works for her. But later, she meets friends who convince her that it is not enough to simply endure and "be alive." It means one must fight, but Celie is not a fighter, she refuses to fight until she realizes how thoroughly cruel her husband has been. Celies also wrote many letters for her sister, Nettie, but when she sees proof that Albert has hidden all of her sister’s letters from her, trying to make her think that Nettie was either dead or that she never wrote to her, Celie can take no more. She erupts, cursing her husband, and she leaves him to go to Memphis and find happiness with a woman who loves her. She is a blues singing, no-nonsense woman who teaches Celie about love and self-esteem.

Celie has struggled for many years, she despite the fact that there was no proof that Nettie was alive. Through her father raped her and her husband treated her meanly. Love heals heartaches, and love leads Celie to forgiveness and reconciliation. Celie get one daughter, Olivia, she is reared in Africa by missionary and his wife. Her son, Adam, he is also reared in Africa by the missionaries. He marries Tashi. After Celie’s mother dies, Fonso marries another woman, Daisy.

Celie began life as a virtual slave, the victim of men, of traditional sexual roles, of racism, and of innumerable social injustices. At the end of the story, Celie finally grow into a whole human being, as well as into a mature, twentieth-century woman. Although she got many unhappy experiences during her lifetime. She has learned to love herself and to share love despite continually cruel pressures. And she realized a sense of joy. The family is whole again.

The purple is associated with royalty; that’s why she says "purple" aloud when she and Kate are discussing the color of Celie’s new dress. Celie is thinking of Shug and simply utters the color that is synonymous with Shug: Purple.