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 …showed first 75 words of 1140 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1140 total…does she improve herself and learn to face her struggles, but she betters the lives of others as well. Her abrupt change allows her friends to see the affect that love has on the human heart, and how necessary it is for humans to live with love. To be without love is to be without life. Love motivates the human spirit to fight for attention and affection, and eventually the ability to love in return.