Throughout "The Color Purple" Celie is growing and learning about herself emotionally, physically, and spiritually.

In the color purple Alice Walker takes the reader through a young colored girl's life. Throughout the novel Celie is growing and learning about herself emotionally, physically, and spiritually. She learns with the help of Sofia and Shug Avery about herself and about other things that go on around her.
The fact that Celie is writing to God shows us that she has a way of coping with her horrendous life. In a way God is the only person/thing she could turn to since her stepfather scared her by saying "You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy." (Page 1) This is the fir…