Writer Essays

According to Ezra Pound, the goal of modernist literature was to bring about novelty and freshness (Pound; 1934). Nevertheless, one cannot fully grasp the essence of this significant literary movement without first understanding its opposite, as is often done in post-structuralist analysis: realism. Realism was a conventional and non-experimental style of writing characterized by its […]

The Gap of Two Experiences and the Problem of Gender Inequality In two passages, Virginia Wolf describes her experience at a two cafeterias, one for a men’s college, and the other for a women’s college. Virginia Wolf uses complex diction, imagery and detail to convey her negative attitude towards women’s place in society. She also […]

Introduction Voices from a room of one’s own is a poetic book that largely talks about feminism. Professor Lisa Lai-Ming Wong writes it from Hong Kong. Lisa holds an MA in translation and interpretation from the University of Hong Kong. Women and fiction are the major themes focused on within this book. The book’s title […]

Starting her essay, Alice Walker recalls a delightful memory from her youth that emphasizes her attractiveness. This beginning establishes the foundation for how all aspects of her life are affected by the disfigurement she experiences later on. In her essay “Mercury,” Walker acknowledges that she was aware of her physical appeal from a young age […]

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 on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia to Minnie Tallulah Grant and Willie Lee Walker. Her family had a background in sharecropping and her mother supplemented their income by working as a maid. As the youngest of eight siblings, she had an accident at the age of 8 while playing Cowboys […]

Black music serves as a means of defining the culture and community of its people who lacked literary and artistic talents and used singing as their outlet. Originally, the roots of jazz music can be traced back to African American churches where they sang the blues as a means of expressing themselves. Eventually, jazz gained […]

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 […]

Both Jeannette Winterson and Alice Walker examine the notion of maturing through rituals or intense experiences in their novels, ‘The Colour Purple’ and ‘Oranges are not the Only Fruit’. These bildungsroman novels delve into the emotional and personal growth of their characters. In ‘The Colour Purple’, set in rural Deep South America during the 20th […]

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 […]

After I finished reading Things Fall Apart, my mind was left pondering certain aspects of the book. The major issue that continued to nag at my thoughts was the relationship between the main character Okonkwo and his son Nwoye. We see through the book that these two characters, with their vastly different character traits, can […]

Sam is the president; Chris is the minister of information, while Seem is the editor Of the national gazette. As the Story unfolds, it is seen that the president is consumed by his pursuit for absolute power; he becomes a dictator and kills his friend Seem for standing in his way, and still strives to […]

This splendid short novel demonstrates Achebe’s continuing ability to depict the challenges posed to African societies by modernism and Western influence. It details the plight of three educated, upper-class Africans attempting to survive in an atmosphere of political oppression and cultural confusion. Set in the fictional African country of Kangan, it is clearly patterned after […]

In his essay entitled An image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Chinua Achebe makes the claim that Joseph Conrad was a ‘thoroughgoing racist’ giving specific examples from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. This essay will attempt to show that while Heart of Darkness may contain certain racist elements Joseph Conrad was not a […]

Achebe’s “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” (The Massachusetts Review.18 (1977): 782-94) passionately criticizes Conrad’s portrayal of Africa and Africans in his novel Heart of Darkness. Achebe’s own novel, Things Fall Apart, directly opposes Conrad’s perspective and is a challenge to Western views. This analysis will examine the validity of Achebe’s […]

The first novel by Chinua Achebe is a modern-day authoritative picturing a masculine- based society even before the British settlers arrived. The nature of the great extent of female subjugation by work forces has been the topic of baffled argument among the literary. The authors Ama Ata Aidoo of Ghana every bit good as the […]

After the stock market crash of 1929, hundreds of people ended their lives because they just couldn’t cope with the fact that they had lost such a great deal of money. Some had lost their life savings – but most hadn’t. In fact, most of them still had enough to live better than a lot […]