Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple to capture and illuminate the hardship and bitterness African American women had to face in the early 1900s. ... Walker is right, movies and books are two completely different mediums. ... Another important theme in Walker's novel is the cyclical nature of sexism. ... Alice Walker sold the rights to her story because she felt it was important for those who wouldn't read the book but would see the movie to experience the contents of the story. ... The subtlety with which Walker shows how this is achieved is remarkable. ...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, is a fictional story that took place in the South during the early to mid 1900's. ... In The Color Purple, Alice Walker leads protagonist Celie on a journey of self-discovery where she has to overcome different obstacles because of her gender, race, and class. ... Nothing can do better than that than a good sound beating" (Walker 35). ... " (Walker 97). ... The Color Purple, by Alice Walker paints a descriptive picture of a colored person during the Jim Crow and Reconstruction Era. ...

• Word Count: 931
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Walker, Marshall, and Hurston; Women writing other Women Alice Walker, through her essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", and Paule Marshall, in "Poets In The Kitchen", both write about the African-American women of the past and how these women have had an impact on their writing. ... Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" embodies some aspects that are found in Walker's and Marshall's essays. ... Walker and Marshall also write about their search for independence as black women. ... Walker defines the creative spirit as an expression of the black woman through everyday t...

• Word Count: 3271
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Alice Walker in writing "Everyday Use" brought about some amount of conflict, in order to bring about the meaning of heritage. ... Written by a Black American author, Alice walker shows us the unsimiliar attitudes and characteristics of the two sisters. ...

• Word Count: 648
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In "Everyday Use" Alice Walker reveals a conflict between a mother, Mrs. ... Johnson who describes herself as "a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands" (Walker 90). ... Dee is "lighter than Maggie is, with nicer hair and fuller figure" (Walker 90). ... (Walker 90) Dee and Maggie have two different ways of viewing their heritage. ... Works Cited Walker, Alice. ...

• Word Count: 416
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

For example, from Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, Alice writes about the pain and experiences that she has faced or has witnessed. Alice writes, "Your daddy didn't know how to git along, he say. ... Both Alice and Quincy relate to literacy from there own lives and experiences. ... Alice Walker uses exclusionary language. ... For example Alice uses the word "spose" which would mean to people from the North "suppose" (66). ...

• Word Count: 1724
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Alice Walker is a child of sharecroppers who raised cotton in the rural South. ... Alice Walker's, "Everyday Use," explores an African-American family exploring their heritage. ... There are no real windows just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in a ship," (Walker 299). ... Walker does this to help the reader to get a better understanding and image of the story. ... Anxious of her sister's arrival, Maggie "will stand hopelessly in corners" (Walker 297). ...

• Word Count: 1247
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The same idea as in Cathedral is weaved throughout Alice Walker's piece entitled Everyday Use. In letting a rural black woman with little education tell a story that affirms the value of her heritage, Walker articulates what has since become two central themes in her writing: the importance of the quilt in her work and the creation of African American Southern women as subjects in their own right. ... Johnson snatches her ancestors' quilts from her daughter Dee, who wants to hang them on a wall, and gives them to Maggie, Walker illuminates her life-long celebration of rural Southern ...

• Word Count: 905
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The sociological evaluation of Everyday Use by Alice Walker enlightens on issues that continue to plague American families in the present. ... In Everyday Use economic problems are abound in how Walker forms her characters. This story illustrates the economic ways that Walker's African American family is seeking fame and higher forms of living. ... Walker describes Dee in her flamboyant yearning for wealth and power: "Earrings gold, too, and hanging down her shoulders. ... Walker's argument in this story is clear that an African-American is both African and American in cultural persp...

• Word Count: 973
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Everyday use" - by Alice Walker Identity is something that concerns everyone of us whether we like it or not. ... Alice walker is a famous black -American writer who is concerned about the identity of black Americans, and especially the black female experience. ...

• Word Count: 1135
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Living a routine life within the borders of a small town was enough for some, and an example would be Alice Walker's "Everyday Use;" a tale about the interpretation of the word heritage and the vast differences of new and old generation's way of living. ...

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"(Locke, Page 95) The outpouring of African American literature of the 1980s and 1990s by such writers as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison also had its roots in the writing of the Harlem Renaissance. ...

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