Few have taken the road of life without crossing a river of struggles. For most, life revolves around hardships and struggles. How one handles a struggle often defines a human being. A refusal to struggle is a refusal to live. Surrender and submission are the easy way out. Life requires something deep within the human heart to bring out the ability to fight. In The Color Purple, Alice Walker uses a weak, battered individual named Celie to represent what it takes to fight, to live, and to be free. Celie begins as a withered spirit, living under the spell of submission. Not until Shug Avery, a vivid spirit, introduces the power of love into her life does Celie learn how to fight and overcome her soul's submission, one struggle at a time. In The Color Purple, Shug Avery teaches Celie how to overcome her weakness by opening up her heart.
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In her early days, Celie doesn't truly live because she is too weak to fight her struggles. She is passive and obedient, allowing herself to be pushed around by those who should love her most. As a teenager, her sister is ripped from her arms, screaming and crying for Celie to fight back, but all she can say to herself is that " I don't fight, I stay where I'm told" (22). She is being stripped from her own flesh and blood, and still, she says nothing. Though she recognizes her weakness, she has no ambition. Her heart is empty, giving her no motivation to fight back. When Harpo, Celie's stepson, asks how to deal with Sophia,