Alice Walker Essays

Alice Walker Walker begins her essay with a story from her early childhood. By starting her essay with a positive story about her and her beauty she lays the foundation for how much her future disfigurement is going to affect every aspect of her life. Walker asks her father is she can go to the […]

Traditions and values sometimes change from generation to generation. “Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker is about a girl named Dee who does not like her heritage at first, and does many things to get rid of it or get away from it. She leaves home to look for what she wants and then came back […]

Some claims that every literature tries to make a specific point. A good writer they say always associates her opinion, ideas and thoughts in her or his masterpiece. Moreover they incorporate literary devices for aesthetic purposes and to deliver the literature’s message in a more creative way.Some produce literature purely for entertainment stressing that life […]

Alice Walker was born February 9, 1944 to parents Minnie Tallulah Grant and Willie Lee Walker in Eatonton, Georgia. Her parents were sharecroppers and her mother worked as a maid to help to supplement the family income. She was the youngest of 8 children. At the age of 8 years old, one of her brothers […]

For the black music is a way of life, a way of defining there culture and community. They couldn’t read or write or paint so they sang. This started off in churches when they sang the blues and eventually black jazz clubs became popular. When segregation was in place the whites used to go and […]

The American Heritage Dictionary defines symbolism as, “the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events or relationships.”  In Alice Walker’s short story, “Everyday Use”, Walker uses various objects, concrete and intangible, to represent larger ideas and themes.  By instilling abstract qualities into inanimate objects, […]

The novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a ground-breaking work in American fiction. The topic of emotional/physical abuse, especially that endured by black American women of earlier generations is not openly spoken about or documented in history books. By bringing focus to this sensitive, yet saddening, experience of black women, the novel attracted […]

Question: Choose a novel or short story in which there is a clear turning point. Briefly describe what leads up to the turning point and explain the effect it has on the rest of the novel or short story. Answer The short story, “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, has a clear turning point. There are […]

Alice Walker (1944), an African/American woman was born in Eatonton, Georgia. She won the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her best-known novel, The Color Purple (1982). Her short story, The Flowers, is from 1973, a time where the Civil Rights Movement was trying to create an equal society, where blacks […]

Alice Walker’s Themes of Womanism, Community, and Regeneration Alice Walker is considered one of the most influential African American writers of the 20th century, because of her raw portrayal of African American struggles and the injustices towards black women. She was the first African American female novelist to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the […]

Rites of passage or baptisms of fire are part of the process of growing up. Compare and contrast the ways in Jeannette Winterson and Alice Walker present growing up in the light of this comment. ‘The Colour Purple’ and ‘Oranges are not the Only Fruit’, both novels share strong themes of bildungsroman, which is a […]

This age is called the age of science, yet’ we can’t deny the importance of literature in our lives. Literature is called the mirror of life; it is also called a mode of the expression of feelings and emotions. As long as human beings do have emotions and feelings, literature will be created and literature […]