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How Does Celie Create Tension In The Color Purple

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Celie starts the fight when she perceives her desires in life and intend to follow with the help of other characters. Walker created the character of Celie from the real life, as Walker’s parents were also the sufferer of racial discrimination and also disgrace by white men, therefore she displays all this tension s in her writings. Walker displayed some brutal and gruesome images through her novel,Celie was repeatedly raped and sexually abused and impregnated by her step father Alphonso. The brutal sexual violence done to a black women child who then proceeds to write down what has happened to her in her own language from her own point of view. She doesn’t find love making between her and her husband thrilling or something which provides pleasure

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