James Baldwin and Alice Walker, both wrote about and lived through problems concerning African Americans in the 1900's. ... Baldwin's and Walker's styles of writing help to contribute to the diversity in their writings. ... Like Baldwin's evidence, parts of Walker's evidence are also very personal. ... This passage is a good passage to use in understanding Walker. ... Unlike Baldwin, Walker uses evidence that is generally not as well known as Baldwin's is. ...

• Word Count: 1418
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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

THE COLOR PURPLE Alice Walker wrote this novel from her own personal experience, growing up in the rural South as an uneducated and abused child. ... Another major theme in Walker's novel is the power of strong female relationships. ...

• Word Count: 441
• Approx Pages: 2
• 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

Alice Walker is an incredible woman who uses her writings to portray the hardships and struggles of black people, especially women, throughout history. Alice Walker was born on February 9th, 1944 to Willie Lee and Minnie Grant Walker in Eatonton, Georgia. ... Walker was an excellent student and received a scholarship to go on to Sarah Lawrence College in New York (Alice 2). ... The Color Purple is said by many professionals to be Alice Walker's best piece of work. ... Alice Walker wrote this book so that men, women, black, or white can find something to relate to (Evory 516). ...

• Word Count: 2261
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

This paper argues that Mama made the right decision in, "Everyday Use," by Alice Walker. ... Walker's short story raises questions about how identity, tradition and ideology are connected to each other and provides her own personal answer to it. ... This was the social background of the period when Everyday Use was written and it is generally perceived to be Walker's criticism of the African American obsession with its African roots and it provides Walker's answer to what heritage means and how it should be handled, (Christian 7). ... In In Search of Our mother's Gardens...

• Word Count: 1911
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These specific pieces of work became a great influence on well-known writers such as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gayle Jones, Alice Walker and Toni Cade Bambara. Alice Walker claimed that if Their Eyes are Watching God was never published, her award winning novel, The Color Purple, would have never been created. ... If it was not for Walker resurrecting Hurston's literature, it would have never gotten to be appreciated in today's world (Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston's Transforming Visions). ... The writer who had made such a statement during her lifetime was buried in an...

• Word Count: 1464
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" ... Written in the backdrop of the 20th century American patriarchal society is the epistolary novel 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker. Alice Walker likes to call herself a 'womanist'3 writer, which as described by her is a 'feminist of color or a black feminist'. ... The term 'womanist' was coined and was first used by the poet and author Alice Walker. ... Alice Walker's The Color Purple ...

• Word Count: 3403
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Alice Walker takes on a feminist tone in The Color Purple, a novel about the struggles between salvation and independence in which she discusses the oppression of black women. Through the relationship between black men and black women, Walker portrays the prejudice that black women have to face. ... One of the themes of The Color Purple is love redeems, hate kills and for Walker, redemptive love requires female bonding. ... Alice Walker contrasts the ugliness of men with the healthy bondage of women to discuss the frustration of black women's struggle for independence. ...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Colour Purple Chapter 1 The first few pages begin Walker's narrative of the life of Celie, a fourteen-year-old black girl who lives with her dying mother and her sister, Nettie. Her stepfather, Alfonso, is portrayed as the villain of the narrative, first demanding sex from Celie's sick mo...

• Word Count: 4341
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

," "Remembering Miss Alberta: One of Alice's Women," and "A Worn Path" each author describes a character that fits the mold of a womanist. ... In the second short story "Remembering Miss Alberta: One of Alice's Women" the author tells of a special womanist, Miss Alberta. ... Alice Walker, an author dedicated to writing and womanism, says that " Womanist... tradition assumes, because of our experiences during slavery, that black women already are capable." ...

• Word Count: 910
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"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. ...

• Word Count: 710
• Approx Pages: 3

"(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. ...

• Word Count: 1092
• Approx Pages: 4