When Sofia leaves Harpo he begins a relationship with a more submissive woman named Squeak. “Harpo little yellowish girlfriend sulk, hanging over the bar. She a nice girl, friendly and everything, but she do anything Harpo say” (Walker 86). The reader can easily see that this relationship fits Harpo’s needs for both a girlfriend and control. “ Squeak does anything Harpo says. Mary Agnes [her real name] has no voice, even when she speaks, she has no identity, only the identity of ‘Squeak’-almost mouse like- that Harpo has carved out of her” (Smith). Squeak has a passion to sing, and she desires to go with Shug Avery to Memphis to sing. Harpo doesn’t want her to leave and tells her that she cannot go. Celie and Shug are determined to go to Memphis to sing regardless of what Mr._____ wants and this defiance gives Squeak the courage to stand up for herself and tell Harpo that she is going to Memphis to sing and demands that Harpo refer to her by Mary Agnes. Allan believes that even though Squeak stands up for herself she still isn’t free from Harpo’s grasp. According to Allan and Dobie even when Squeak declares her identity as Mary Agnes, it appears that Harpo still posses the control over Squeak and her career. Harpo says that he isn’t sure if he wants Squeak to sing and even as Mary Agnes discovers a voice Harpo still has a grasp on Mary Agnes.

When Celie and Nettie were just children, Celie was taking care of her. Even when Celie noticed Pa looking at Nettie, wanting to rape her, Celie was willing to be raped in order to spare her younger sister. “ I ast him to take me instead of Nettie…I tell him I can fix myself up for him. I duck into my room and come out wearing horsehair, feathers, and pair of our new mammy high heal shoes. He beat me for dressing trampy but he do it to me anyway” (Walker 8). Loyalty and self sacrifice is portrayed when Celie agrees to the violation of her body in order to protect Nettie from the sexual advances from Pa. Nettie tried her hardest to compliment Celie in order to overcome all the insults thrown at her. When Pa forced Celie out of school calling her dumb, Nettie insists that Celie is smart: “ Even Miss Beasley say so she think there nobody like her in the world” (11). When Mr.____ gives her compliments, she always gives the same compliments to Celie. “ She tell me, your skin, your hair, your teefs, he try to give her a compliment she pass it on to me. “After while I git to feeling pretty cute” (18).

Sofia knocks out Squeaks teeth in a fight at Harpo’s nightclub, but that never hinders Squeak from coming to her rescue when she really needs it. Squeak uses her body to help free Sofia from jail. She sacrifices her body in order to improve Sofia’s situation. “Rape became a catalyst for positive change…unselfish acts of compassion are ‘universal’ with women in the novel” (Smith). Squeak never

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