The main character of Color Purple is a fourteen year old black girl, who talks to God letting him know everything that is going on with her. Célie was a very brilliant young person. She grew up very quickly, because she had to help her father with the other children in the house. Celie was never treated the same as the others. Her father made her the woman of the house and even the mother. Celie's father was raping her and he told her not to tell her mother. Célie's texts are born when she is raped and silenced; the epigraph to The Color Purple consists of an omnipresent and unattributed threat against speech. These harsh words open the whole text: “You better not tell anyone but God. It would kill your mother” (Weisenburger). She was so young and so scared. Her father preferred Nettie over her, so he decided to hurt her. He got Celie pregnant and left the baby in the care of a pastor and his wife. Living in this house was hell for Célie, she hated every minute of it. Even though it was the slave era, his own father made him his personal slave at home. She had to cook dinner every day, clean up after all those kids. Celie was recognized by this man at church named “Monsieur” and her father gave her to him because he didn't really want Celie anymore. Célie had experienced a lot while staying there with the gentleman. The only way for her to escape her problems was to write in her diary (Wall). Although Célie initially wrote her journal letters to bridge the gap that arose from her sexual violation and to create identity out of fragmentation, the form of her text necessarily brings together unity and disparity” (Wall). Monsieur hates Celie just because she is a woman. He claims that women are not equal to men and that they should serve...... middle of paper ... Nettie, so he said I'll tell you what, I'll let you have Celie (Walker). Monsieur had never looked at Celie before, so it was a sudden surprise. Works cited by Eddy, Charmaine. “Marking the Body: The Material Dislocation of Gender in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” ARIEL 34.2-3 (2003): 37+. Gale Literary Resources. Internet. January 14, 2014.Wall, Wendy. “Literated bodies and corporeal texts in the color purple”. Studies in American Fiction 16.1 (Spring 1988): 83-97. Rep. in contemporary literary criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec. Flight. 167. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Gale Library Resources. Internet. January 14, 2014. Weisenburger, Steven C. “Errant Narrative and The Color Purple.” Journal of Narrative Technique 19.3 (Fall 1989): 257-275. Rep. in contemporary literary criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec. Flight. 167. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Gale Library Resources. Internet. January 14. 2014.