Celie In 'The Color Purple' By Alice Walker

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In the Book The color purple by Alice Walker the main character Celie is a very shy and timid women throughout the book, she has learned to never speak her mind and has always let men control everything about who she is. In a passage in the book, For the first time Celie demonstrates that standing up to those who once scared you or harmed you will give you an amazing strength to be confident in who you are and what you can do.
The passage has a tone of strength and confidence on Celie’s part, she tells Mr._____ that he is a “Lowdown dog” and that “It’s time to enter the world of creation” (199 -201). Celie says this figuratively speaking to tell Mr.____ that she is free now to be somebody, to be her own person. There is so much adrenaline

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