Colour_Purple

This is an inserted scene for the ‘Color Purple’ explaining why Albert also known as Mr _____ treated his children and Celie so harshly. It has been written in a letter context. Dear Celie, I don’t sit inside the house much anymore. Not that it ain’t a nice house, it lovely now, paint is fresh and the air always smell like bread. I sit on the porch, in that old rocking chair, you know, the one you always knit in. This place bound with a new energy, like the wind is singing a new song. It sweet and comforting. Every breath I take, feel like a melody turning in my lungs. It helps me right this letter to you and it help me find the incentive to push my arrogance you had put up with many years aside. Until I do right by you, you told me, everything I even dream about will fail. You right Celie. Even my dreams haunted me. After you left, I find it hard to sleep. It feel like something dark, heavy on my chest, make it hard to breathe. I try act like I don’t need you. But everything much harder once you leave me. I start to loose my mind I think, I can’t even make my own food, Id rather goes hungry. The garden over grown and my bones even seem to turn frail. I hated you for this, I even blame you. “That dirty women never did well by me,” I tell Hubbo, “I should have never taken her in and given her this place, she take me for a ride, she use me.” Hubbo keep working like it non of his business. For so long all I do is sit in the house like nothing good ever gonna come my way. I do nothing. I tell people that it ain’t my place to. Everything around me gits dirty, even the air don’t seem right. All I seem to think about is how God let me down. I think I hate him. Makes me wonder why anybody should ever believe in him at all. He take way the love of my life, give me horrible children, then gives me a wife that no good, don’t do nothing, then betrays me and leaves. But I mostly hate him cause he take way Shug. When I with her, I didn’t ever think anything could go wrong. All the pain I ever felt, she make go away. “I never met a man like you”. She would whisper in my ear. Everyday feel like sunshine. My heart git so warm. I love everything bout her. The way the sun shine on her skin, her soft hands and I love that smile. I love her so much Celie I even ast her to marry me. Then God… he rip her straight from my arms and take my heart with her. I thought I could never love nothing again. I think this why I was never able to love use. I goes through life always angry at myself for loosing Shug and I never seen the important things that were right in front of my eyes. I so stupid for that. Now, everyday my heart aches. The thing you never know but Celie, is that Shug, she leave me for another man. She never tell me bout him either. It was a spring day, but not a normal. The day wasn’t warm from the sun, and there were no butterflies teasing with the ground. The sky was a dark shade of grey and it look like it bout to fall. The air so cold, it scrape hard gainst my face. Shug, she tell me she don’t think she can see me today, she seem to have got ill. I don’t mind, I want to surprise her anyway. I pick her three of the most beautiful flowers I could find. They remind me of her, the way they sit in my hand and be so beautiful without even doing nothing. I walk to her house and it feel like there’s a little man in my heart and he doing a lovely dance. The sky let out a cry, and I feel the first drop fall gainst my hand. I see Shugs house sitting comfortable mongst the hills ahead. It a small grey house, it got two large windows and soft yellow curtains. They make that place sweet. I run fast toward it, not sure if it from the rain or from that little man in my chest dancing so fast it feel like he bout to jump out. I slow down before I reach the door and tuck my shirt tight in my pants. I take in one last deep breath and it almost take me off my feets. That little man, he don’t seem to stop. I knock three times gainst the door and I stand there and wait, I feel like a fool. I hear nothing so I open the door softly and walk in. The thing I see next, it make me feel like a million knives been shoved into every inch of my body. I struggle to keep from falling. That little man, he stop. There Shug was. Normally she look so beautiful naked, but she don’t look so beautiful no more. A man much taller then me seem to take way her beauty. They both stop dead in their tracks, it look like they be stunned by lighting. I hear their heavy breaths. He on top of the most pretty girl in the world. My girl, the love of my life, I feel numb. I don’t move. I don’t breathe. I don’t say nothing. Shug jump up and cover her naked body. She stand there in front of me for a moment and look straight into my eyes. I see something fall slowly down her cheek. I want to punch that man straight in his face. I want to take Shug away and tell her I seen nothing. Instead, I reach out, give her them flowers that be so beautiful without doing nothing, and walk away. I hear Shug let out a cry and run towards me. I push her back, and suddenly I feel like I going to be sick. I turn back round. I don’t look back. Everyday a struggle Celie. Everyday I miss her more and more. I feel like I an empty nobody and I drink to chase the pain from my body. She write me a letter saying she going far away, and she sorry. I know it ain’t your fault non of this happened to me Celie, And I sorry I git my anger out on you all them years. But I want you to try and understand how hurt I feel and how hard it is to love something when you got no heart. Even though I hated God for all them years, he seem to find his way back to me. He give me reason to live and make me work hard till my fingers bleed. He make me understand. I never could expect you to forgive me. But Celie I want you to know, I be here for you whenever you need. May God Bless You, Albert