With the hardship she endured and the complicate relationship she had found out later on she doesn’t know who to trust or who she could ask help from.Celie often write her prays to god, hoping that he might one day answer her. To Celie, God is a distant figure, who she doubts cares about her concerns. She never dare to speak up or talk back for herself even when she did not do anything wrong, she just face the consequence and accepted the punishment. For example, one day she was beaten because Pa thought he saw her wink at a boy in church. She says, “I may have got somethin in my eye, but I didn’t wink. I don’t even look at mens. That’s the truth.”(page 5.) But of course, she doesn’t dare tell him such things. After a beautiful and someone
