The Color Purple
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker

The Color Purple Letter Twenty-Six Summary

  • Shug sits up in bed and Celie washes and combs her hair.
  • Shug gets all relaxed and starts humming a song, telling Celie that it’s something that she made up because of Celie – it’s something that Celie "scratched out" of her head.

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