Setting: Early 20th century Georgia and Memphis in the USA and a fictional village in Africa called Olinka.Genre: Epistolary Novel African-American Literature.The abuse and travails Celie suffers render her numb to life but she eventually begins to heal and triumph over her adversities through support from a strong woman named Shug Avery and the loving words of her sister Nettie who shows her different places in the world through her letters. She is later married off to an older widower who continues to rape and abuse her. The novel centers on Celie, a fourteen-year-old African-American girl who is constantly raped by her father but has no one to help her or to confide in and so resorts to writing letters to God as her only outlet.
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