The Color Purple Contents
- The Color Purple: Social and political context
- The Color Purple: Religious and philosophical context
- The Color Purple: Literary context
- Textual help
- Letter 1
- Letter 2
- Letter 3
- Letter 4
- Letter 5
- Letter 6
- Letter 7
- Letter 8
- Letter 9
- Letter 10
- Letter 11
- Letter 12
- Letter 13
- Letter 14
- Letter 15
- Letter 16
- Letter 17
- Letter 18
- Letter 19
- Letter 20
- Letter 21
- Letter 22
- Letter 23
- Letter 24
- Letter 25
- Letter 26
- Letter 27
- Letter 28
- Letter 29
- Letter 30
- Letter 31
- Letter 32
- Letter 33
- Letter 34
- Letter 35
- Letter 36
- Letter 37
- Letter 38
- Letter 39
- Letter 40
- Letter 41
- Letter 42
- Letter 43
- Letter 44
- Letter 45
- Letter 46
- Letter 47
- Letter 48
- Letter 49
- Letter 50
- Letter 51
- Letter 52
- Letter 53
- Letter 54
- Letter 55
- Letter 56
- Letter 57
- Letter 58
- Letter 59
- Letter 60
- Letter 61
- Letter 62
- Letter 63
- Letter 64
- Letter 65
- Letter 66
- Letter 67
- Letter 68
- Letter 69
- Letter 70
- Letter 71
- Letter 72
- Letter 73
- Letter 74
- Letter 75
- Letter 76
- Letter 77
- Letter 78
- Letter 79
- Letter 80
- Letter 81
- Letter 82
- Letter 83
- Letter 84
- Letter 85
- Letter 86
- Letter 87
- Letter 88
- Letter 89
- Letter 90
Letter 68
Synopsis of Letter 68
Celie is both amazed and delighted that both of her children, Olivia and Adam, are not also her half-siblings and Fonso’s other children not her ‘kin’ since he is only her stepfather.
Shug decides that it is time for Celie to pack up and come to live with her in Tennessee. Celie ends the letter by telling God that he must have fallen asleep.
Commentary on Letter 68
This brief note written by Celie is the last letter she addresses to God until letter 90, at the end of the narrative. Her previously mild tone becomes accusatory towards God as she feels that she has been betrayed - she cannot understand why God has waited so long to reveal the truth to her.
Although Celie is now free from the guilt she has felt over her children being the product of incest, she is upset by the news of her natural father's lynching at the hands of white men, as well as of her mother's mental illness. Celie wonders if God may be the cause of her problems, rather than the solution to her misfortunes and from this point in the narrative she begins to reconstruct her concept of family and of God.
Investigating Letter 68
- Add to your character notes on Celie
- Prepare a fresh sheet of A4 to record how Celie’s concept of God changes from this point in the novel.
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