The Color Purple, Cellies letter to God

In the book the color purple, Cellie the main character spends time writing many, many letters to God. Cellie is a fir believer of religion and that of the Spirit, it becomes apparent in the book, that Cellie feels something important and something relevant to herself, her life and to God. Cellie does not only make great use of the letters going to God, but she uses the book as a resource for herself to look back upon and reflect in her life. The letters tend to reflect and explain the feelings and the main points in her life, probably with much further detail and emphasis than what she really felt and how the events happened. The way that Cellie writes the book make her seem as she is having a verbal direct conversation with somebody as here in the book she is having to whom she believes is God. Cellie leaves nothing behind in the book or it seems that way in how the book is written. It seems that nothing is left behind, having strong language and the dramatic events that are happening. Whether the book not is censored because of the feelings that they bring to reader and gives more of an emphasis to dramatize the book, or because that is how things happen, but the it seems as though the main the character perceives the events in the way that are portrayed in the book.




Through how the book is written, Cellie is seen as a person that is very strong who happens to go through life changing events as something very ordinary in her life. In the beginning of the book, Cellie is raped by her father twice and goes through having her mother die. As for a person not as strong in comparison to Cellie, those two events could lead to life filled with hatred for the world and depression. But, that is not the case with Cellie, in her case it only made her stringer and made her want to be better and keep going in life to serve as something better. Cellie helps and want to protect her sister and not allow her father to take advantage and do the same thing that she did with her. In one part of the book towards the middle Cellie opens up in a small way, admits, and makes it 100% clear that she too believes she is a strong person.


“Six boys, six girls. All the girls big and strong like me.”(Walker, 41) Cellie reflects on herself and she knows what type of person she is, she knows that she is strong, she not only uses the letters for God, and she uses them for herself in part with her self-esteem.