Reading_ Tamishly's Reviews > The Color Purple

This book physically and mentally hit me. Like real hard. Some parts made me real uncomfortable but these things happened (even if it's fiction). I wish life wasn't so difficult for these women. So many sensitive, heavy issues are being discussed in this one. And I simply don't know from where to start.
The first page itself gave me a huge jolt. I just couldn't know how to continue reading the book. (I get really uncomfortable with rape scenes.) And yes, this book has some graphic contents of abuse of all kinds especially sexual and physical abuse. I met one of my most hateful characters to date. This particular guy made me hate such 'men' that I was physically hurting while reading about him. The rapist, the abuser, the criminal. Ugh!!!!! Ok. Calming down for the women characters' sake, the female characters seem so real and they represented well the hurt and the abuse they were facing in such a patriarchal society. Most like our main character, Celia, just live through all the pain and the ongoing abuse. A few like Sofia fight against it and actually do act on what they believe they must do even if she has to face some unwanted consequences. The other character, Shug. She is phenomenal. It's so damn liberating reading about such women living for themselves in the end no matter how broken and hurt they are.

What I get to learn from reading this book is that it's women who uplifts other women the best. It doesn't depend on the men to dictate our fate and lives. No matter how hurt we are because of the unavoidable circumstances in life, it's us women who needs to lift another woman in pain.
I love the chemistry between Shug and Celia as well as the sibling chemistry. It an all in all our women's story meant to give hope and strength. I actually like the perspective on how we see 'god' as.

This book is a little out of my comfort zone. I was in terror thinking about the abuse and the conditions these women had to live with. It's hopeful and beautiful. But I felt the pain so real and deep.