Novel Project Entry 2

The Color Purple

pages 80-160

In the beginning of this section Sofia comes to the club that Harpo has opened. Everyone is glad to see her except Harpo's new girlfriend, Squeak, who thinks Harpo shouldn't talk to Sofia. Harpo and Sofia have a dance together anyways regardless of Squeak's comment, but Squeak didn't like this she started and arguement with Sofia. After a while of arguing Sofia gave Squeak a good hit across her face that knocked her to the ground. This made Harpo have to choose between his wife and his girlfriend, but Sofia left with her new boyfriend.

A little after a week of this incident Sofia was locked up because she refused to be the mayor's wife maid, and cursed her out. The mayor didn't like that Sofia had disrespected his wife and they all got into a big fight including Sofia's children. She was beaten so bad, that one of her eyes wouldn't open, her face was swollen, and she had a lot of cuts and bruises. They gave Sofia seventeen years in the prison, and she felt like Miss Celie because whenever they called her name she had to go running. Harpo and all the others came to visit her twice a month for half a hour, which isn't long at all.

Later in the book, Shug Avery came to visit Miss Celie and Mr.______, who is named Albert. She had a suprise for them and that was her new husband, Grady, Miss Celie nor Albert liked this idea. Shug and Avery shared many experiences together during this period of stay and found out a lot of information as well. The most important of this information was letters that Shug found from Celie's sister, Nettie, they were sent to Celie but Albert never gave them to her. They had to come up with an idea to steal the letters without Albert finding out, so they took out the letters and placed the envelopes back in his trunk.

There was so many letters that Celie had not recieved from her sister, that it upseted her enough to want and kill Albert. Nettie had wrote her letters about her two children and their health, and the different places she was staying. In the story it gives you a lot of letters from Nettie that you could read. The movie never included as many details as I read in the book. The best part of it all is that Celie finally had gained the strength to know that she was somebody, and she actually meant something to someone.