The Color Purple
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Is a minor sexualized?
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A minor is sexually abused.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Women are beaten and abused, but not in a way that's presented as a spectacle to the reader.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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A character befriends her ex-husband who used to beat her after he has changed his ways. She does not explicitly forgive him.
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Abuse
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A lot of domestic abuse throughout. Parents beat children, husbands beat wives, in one case a wife beats her husband.
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Physical and sexual abuse.
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Addiction
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It’s implied that someone is going through withdrawals while detoxing
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Animal
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Assault
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Yes DEFINITELY onscreen, within the first page.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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A character contemplates slitting another character's throat while shaving him. Nothing actually happens though.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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In the middle portions of the book, a character is in Africa, where female genital mutilation is a common practice.
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Several parental deaths, including a young child's father dying.
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Fear
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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In the book, Celie would comment on how she would get sick
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Noxious
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Are there fat jokes?
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Some calls one of the characters a fat n-word
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Sex
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Father with daughter. He impregnates her twice and gives her babies away.
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Several characters are believed to have drowned but turn out to be okay.
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