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Journal entry 5 (The Color Purple)

Women in The Color Purple story were facing with different changes among them. The changes that Celie, Shug and Sophia go through are based on what had happened in their life.

At the beginning of the story, Celie is a daughter of a stone hearted man who is always raped his daughter until Celie give birth baby girl and boy. These babies he used to sell to other people to get money from them. After that, someone come to propose his daughter to be his wife because he can’t handle his children. Because of Celie sister is still young, Celie has to replace her to become that man’s wife. As soon as she gets married, she has to sacrifice everything in her life including her beloved sister. She is more became her husband’s slave, she did the house work, manage his husband’s children and everything. She felt really lonely after separated with her sister until she lost contact with her. She has nothing in this world except a sister and two children but then, they are not with her until she is old. She was cruelly treated by her husband because her husband doesn’t love her. At the end of the story, she became a friend with Shug, her husband’s ex-wife until she get help from her to get her right back and changed to be an up-to-date woman.

Shug in this story is a singer and also an ex-wife to Celie’s husband. She is a very famous singer but, before she became a nice woman, she goes through many conflicts in herself. At first, she doesn’t like Celie and she makes Celie as her slave also. She asked Celie to bath her and prepared her meal until after everyday she spent her time with Celie, she became nicer to her. She changed her to wear more proper dress and fight for her right. She helped Celie to escape from her husband’s power.

Sophia is a wife to Celie’s husband’s son. She is a big young girl who felt in love with that boy. She is a very happy go lucky person and very aggressive person. After she gets married, she always argued with her husband until she divorced. After that, she became a maid in an English house. She changed to become a passive and weak person after it.

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