The Color Purple

     When I saw that our next journal would be on a book, I wasn't really looking forward to it. I scanned the book list, and randomly picked one. I chose The Color Purple by Alice Walker for no certain reason, but after I got to reading it, I was very thankful I did.
      In this book Celie would be writing her story to God, which made me even more interested. She wasn't really praying to God it seemed like, but she was telling Him her story.
     Celie was a young girl who was sexually abused & beaten by her father, before and after her mother passed away from an illness. My father and I have gotten into many arguements but never have I lived through something like Celie had. Which made me open my eyes to how thankful I should be for having a relationship with my father like I do. Her younger sister Sophie was smart, and was better looking than her. My older sister has always been the prettier and smarter one also. But my sister and I have always gotten along, just like Celie and Sophie had.
     Sophie had found a man she was crazy about, he had gone by Mr.____ in the book, and her father had refused to let her marry him. Instead of allowing Sophie and Mr.____ to marry, he insisted on him and Celie to marry. I don't agree with arranged marriges. Why should someone tell someone else who to marry? Marrige is suppose to be about love and friendship, and this was definatley not how it was with Celie and Mr.____. He bossed her around, made her cook, clean, do the farming, and he beat her.
     This book took place in a very different time era I believe, but arranged marriges, and beating someone you're suppose to truly care about will never be okay. This book gave me so many things to think about, and I'm so thankful I chose to read it.