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"Celie's strengths as an African American Woman" Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” is a captivating and touching novel about life of a poor African American woman -- Celie, living in the deep rural south at the turn of the twentieth century. Dur ....

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.... father and later her husband told her so. Celie had to leave school because her father raped her and got her pregnant. This brought a lot of pain and emotional downfall but in spite of this with a great help of her younger sister Nettie, Celie tried her best to learn what she missed in school. It was very important for her, because she realized that knowledge is one of the ways to become strong and to improve in life. “ Us both be hitting Nettie’s schoolbooks pretty hard, cause us know we got to be smart to git away. I know I’m not as smart or as pretty as Nettie but she say I ain’t dumb.” (Page 10). In spite of the ph ....