What is it that makes a person want to abuse someone are something? There is more than just physical abuse there is also mental and emotional abuse, but really what makes someone stay and suffer through any kind of abuse given?. Researchers have found that women cope with the abuse out of fear and believe that the abuse is normal, out of 75% of relationships most women said they stay because they're afraid of being alone (Daniels 3). Abuse is being misused or mistreated, there are so many women in our society that are abused but yet they fail to speak up about their secret lives at home. As discussed by (American journal 2) it may be somewhat artificial to separate emotional abuse because physical forms abuse also inflict emotional and psychological harms to victims, and both forms serve to establish dominance and to occur alone, but the abuser will also make their victim feel as if there was no difference at all. But for women they experience around 4.8 million intimate partner- related physical assaults and rapes every year and less than 20% of the women sought medical attention afterward. Almost like celie in the Color Purple, Celie mother died and she was left with her father. Alfonso who rapes and abuses her, he abuses her physically, mentally and sexually. She later became pregnant with her first child were he took the child off into the woods to kill her baby and she believed that Alfonso also gave her second child away to a married couple (walker2). In the American culture, incest based on reported cases, produce a figure of 100,000 cases a year (Johnson 5). Alfonso, in this case was the abuser to Celie because he knew she didn't know any better at the innocent age of 14 she knew nothing. Celie was only a child she didn't know are understand what was happening to her, some would say that Alfonso could be the victim too because he only knew what his father attempted to show him throughout his life as far as treating women. But I believe that as a grown man you know and understand the difference between right and wrong good or bad. So there is no excuse for any abuse whether it's emotionally, physically and or mentally. Celie was the victim because she was an underage young lady who didn't have any guidance and was uneducated, Celie didn't know anything about the ways of life. The only person who could have showed her guidance and the ways of life was her mother, but after she died that gave Alfonso the advantage to confuse and manipulate Celie because Alfonso knew he could have had that advantage over her. Celie's abuse doesn't even stop after Alfonso finds a new wife, he still sexually abuses her this goes to show that Alfonso felt as if he had complete and utter control over Celie. He knew that she wouldn't ever dare stop him are say anything to anyone about the abuse as research has shown she probably thought that it was normal. Alfonso is a smart man he didn't want Celie his daughter, to advance in her education that's when he started to emotionally abuse her. He knew that Celie might learn better and or tell about what was going on that way he could keep her under control (Walker3). Most cases African American children were unfortunately limited to education so it was not a priority in 1909-1937(American Society 9). Nettie which is Celie's younger sister which is also is the father too and doesn't want to hand Nettie over because he says she's too young to marry and instead offers Celie instead. Nettie runs away from Alphonso and finds refuge with Celie and Mr. It quickly becomes clear that Mr. Still has an eye for Nettie. Whenever Mr. Pays Nettie a compliment, she passes it on to Celie. However, Nettie refuses Mr.'s advances, and she is soon forced to leave. Never hearing from Nettie again, Celie presumes her sister is dead. Mr. Two sisters, Kate and Carrie, visit and treat Celie with kindness, complimenting her on her housekeeping and her care of the children. Kate tells her brother that Celie needs new clothes, and though he seems surprised to learn that Celie would hav