![]() Although Harpo and Sofia have more children over the next few years, their brawls continue and Sofia leaves with their offspring. Instead, Sofia punches Harpo in the eye and vows to fight for her dignity. When the couple moves to the Johnson farm, both Albert and Celie advise young Harpo to beat the brazen girl into submission. Although he forbids the marriage, the two wed shortly after the birth of their first child. In the summer of 1916, Albert meets his son Harpo's (Willard Pugh) pregnant fiance, Sofia (Oprah Winfrey). Years pass, and the adult Celie (now played by Whoopi Goldberg) improves her reading to escape Albert's brutality. Although Celie hopes for mail from Nettie, Albert declares she will never see letters from her sister. Sometime later, Albert receives a letter announcing the imminent arrival of his former lover, a diva named Shug Avery (Margaret Avery). When she retaliates, Albert violently forces her to leave, and she and Celie are separated yet again. One day, Albert attempts to rape Nettie on her route to school. Celie warns Nettie to leave the farm before Albert has his way with her, but the sisters are inseparable, and Nettie teaches Celie to read. Back at the farm, Celie is visited by Nettie, who escaped Pa. However, Celie remains uncertain whether the child is her own. She follows Corrine (Susan Beaubian), the baby's supposed mother, to learn the child was adopted by Reverend Samuel. In the spring of 1910, Celie believes she recognizes her seven-month-old daughter, Olivia, in town. There, she calls him "Mister," acts as a domestic servant, and endures his physical abuse. Refusing, the old man offers Celie instead, and Albert takes the girl to his plantation. Sometime later, a prominent local farmer named Albert Johnson (Danny Glover) asks Pa's permission to marry young Nettie. ![]() Celie had previously conceived another child through incest, a son named Adam, but he was also removed from her care. Since the baby was conceived through incest, Celie's father, Pa (Leonard Jackson), seizes the infant and warns his daughter to keep the pregnancy a secret. In the winter of 1909 Georgia, a 14-year-old African American girl named Celie (Desreta Jackson) gives birth to a daughter, whom she names Olivia, as her younger sister, Nettie (Akosua Busia), acts as midwife.
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