Sorin Choi

Written by Alice Walker, The Color Purple is a novel about Celie, who has lived a desperate life as a black woman, ceaselessly abused by her father and husband. However, with support from her beloved sister Nettie and other enlightened black women, Celie learns to free herself and stand as an independent woman. She has learned to see life from a different perspective and wishes her ex-husband, Mr., could do the same. In the following passage, Celie tells her ex-husband a new version of the story of Adam and Eve, accepted by the Olinka people in Africa, which suggests that Adam was not the first white man -- just the first one the people didn't kill.