Letters to Celie(Thursday)

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Today in AP Lit, we read more of Celie’s letters from The Color Purple. As we get more into the novel, Celie’s Vocabulary progresses. There’s a turning point when Sophia and Harpo get into a altercation because of Celie. Celie soon felt that she had sinned against Sophia in an act of jealousy.

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