Miss Celie's Monologue; excerpt from novel, The Color Purple

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Lead character in the novel, The Color Purple; Set in the 1920's; young girl repeatedly raped by her step father and children born from those encounters have been given away to local families. Celie, also given away in marriage to a local farmer, is seeing one of her children in a town store.

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Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

North American (General) North American (US South) US African American

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
I will be interpreting a scene from the novel. The color purple by Alice walker in the voice of Miss Seeley. I was in town sitting on the wagon while Mr was in the dry. Good stuff. I've seen my baby girl and nobody was her. She looked just like me and my daddy look more like us than us is ourself. She'd be tagging along behind a lady and they be dressed just alike. They passed the wagon and not speak the latest. Speak pleasant my little girl she looked up and sort of frown. She friend over some she got my eyes just like the years today like everything I see she's seen and she pondering it I think she might my heart says she might but I don't know she might if she mind her name. Olivia. I'm brought Olivia in the seat of all her diabetes. I am brought in a lot of little stars and flowers too. He took all the diet is when he took her She was about two month old then Now she about six. I climbed down from the wagon. I follow Olivia her new man me into a stove. I watched her run her hand alongside the counter like she ain't really interesting nothing her ma's by a cloth she said don't touch nothing Olivia. Just young they're real pretty I say and help her mama drape a piece of cloth close to her face. She smiled seen