CELIE Flashcards
Celie psychological abuse as well as physical.
He took it. He took it while i was sleeping. Kilt it out there in the woods. Kill this one too if he can.
Celie Celie took over the mother role once her mother passed awa
My mama dead. She die screaming and cussing. She screamed at me. She cuss at me.
Celie Pa removed her fertility and cannot have anymore kids if she ever has a normal marriage.
A girl at church say that you git big if you bleed every month. I don’t bleed no more
Celie no longer in education, mother role
I git all the children ready for school
Celie didnt have a choice whether to have kids or not they just had to, she doesn’t mention herself having kids from Pa
My daddy got six by my mama before she die, I say. He got four more by the wife he got now.
Celie Pa beat her he thinks she is deliberately tempting him to have sex, she’s terrified of men because of him. ‘beating’ = bruising and title ‘purple’. (c/r with Rochester; considered a good husband as he doesn’t beat Antoinette)
He beat me today cause i winked at a boy in church.
Celie all three women have to suffer due to Mr__. female solidarity
I’m in bed crying. Nettie she finally see the light of day, clear. Our new mammy she see it too
Celie about Sofia and Harpo
they fighting like two mens
Direct address, religious proper noun.
Religious beliefs / the role of God.
Dear God
Double negative ‘don’t never’, non-standard English ‘git’.
Male abuse and oppression of black women.
I don’t never git used to it’
Euphemism.
Lack of education and Celie’s suffering.
Im big
Modal auxiliary of certainty ‘will’, preposition ‘with’.
Female solidarity and role of God.
‘I say I’ll take care of you. With God help’
Dynamic verb ‘beat’ in infinitive form and adverb of time ‘today’.
Male abuse and oppression of black women.
‘He beat me today
Negated verb ‘not scared’.
Female solidarity and female role models.
‘I look at women, tho, cause I’m not scared of them’
Dynamic verb ‘kill’.
Use of violence in protest. Celie, in the beginning, favours violence rather than subtlety.
Maybe kill, I say’
Juxtaposition of verb ‘fight’ and phrasal verb ‘stay alive’.
Celie’s survival. Black people who accepted the abuse without protest were not living, just surviving.
‘I don’t know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive’
Verb phrase ‘long as I can spell’, proper noun ‘God’.
Role of God and Celie’s reliance on religion.
‘Long as I can spell G-O-D I got somebody along
Adverb ‘only’, concrete noun ‘money’.
Referring to Mr’s sister. Emphasises the lack of financial autonomy women had.
‘She the only woman I ever seen with money
