The Color Purple 1-100

Celie is living as a slave. She’s with her mom, and her siblings. Her slave-master rapes her, and she has two children by him. She’s not 100% sure what he did with the children, but she thinks he gave her first one up for adoption, and killed the second one. She has a sister named Nettie, and Nettie fell in love with a man, Mr. _____. Mr. _____ comes to the house to ask the Master’s permission to marry Nettie. Master says no, but he tells Mr. _____ that he can marry Celie. So, Mr. _____ takes Celie as his wife. Mr. _____ is not good to Celie, and he beats her. Nettie gets tired of living as a slave, so she comes to live with them. She stays for a while, and when she leaves, she promises that nothing but death can keep her from writing letters to Celie. She doesn't send a single letter though. One of Mr. _____’s children, Harpo, falls in love with a girl, Sofia. They end up getting married and having five children. Celie finds a picture of a girl, Shug Avery, and learns that she used to have a thing with Mr. _____. Shug Avery is a singer in clubs, and she’s kind of trampy, but she’s coming to their town, and she ends up living with Mr. _____ and Celie. Shug Avery gets to their house, and she’s very sick, so Celie takes care of her. Shug Avery is not the easiest to take care of, but she slowly gets better and better, and a lot more cheerful to be around. In the meantime, Sofia leaves Harpo. She leaves and takes all the kids with her. When she leaves, Harpo turns their old house into a tavern, and they have Shug perform there, to kind of “get back on her feet”. Shug is finally getting back to her normal self, so she tells Celie she’s going to leave. She can live on her own. Celie tells her that when she’s not around, Mr. _____ beats her, so Shug says she’ll stay as long as she has to. Harpo has a new girlfriend, and her name is Squeak. While Harpo and Squeak are together, Sofia comes back with a new boyfriend too. Squeak gets mad, and tells Sofia to leave because Harpo is her man now. Sofia leaves, and then, not too long after, she gets put in jail because she “disrespected the mayor’s wife”. Now, they’re trying to figure out how to get her out of jail.