Essay on Alice Walker's Roselily

Being the strong- willed woman Rose of Sharon is she moves on with life. Then at the end of the

According to Sandra G. Shannon, Rose Maxon’s focuses are on “being a wife, mother and homemaker.” (154) Shannon states that Wilson places Rose as a conformed woman by being the nurturer but also demands herself some self-respect. She is loving, supportive, outspoken but inferior to her husband in some ways. Rose is not treated like a second-class citizen but is expected to be understanding and forgiving no matter how small or huge the wrong-doing is. Rose is a mixture of strong because she stayed with Troy even though he had an illegitimate child with another woman. She showed such strength when she took Troy’s daughter as her own to raise and told Troy he was a “womanless man.” She took Troy’s daughter as her own because she told Troy that her daughter is not to blame for her father’s actions. Women’s roles are defined by men still in the 1950s, (155) and she loves Troy enough to accept his flaws up until he confesses having a baby out of wedlock. Women may be forgiving because they know separation/divorce is looked highly down upon and women rely on their husbands financially. Also, women who are alone are less likely to succeed, and will run the risk of constantly meeting worse men. (155) When Troy gives Rose the unexpected news about him becoming a father through another woman, Rose first is in shock; asks why did he wait eighteen years to do that and Rose gets angry. She is in

That`s all you got to measure yourself against the world out there.” It’s in this moment that she is carried away to the extent of revealing her painful escapades she went through in her marriage. She explains how she first met Troy, a man she could settle down with and have a baby at the age of thirty. Rose went further in describing the nature of the chores she was responsible for as a wife such as cooking supper, keeping the bed sheets clean and so forth, but things got out of hand letting the man rule all her world. Rose says, “I took up his life as mine and mixed the pieces so that you couldn’t hardly tell which was which anymore”************* This shows the sacrifices that Rose made as a wife and mother just to make her own world comfortable.

She does not have an emotional meltdown like she did when Connie left. Instead, she uses the breast milk meant for her baby to feed a dying man in a barn. The dying man is desperate for food, and when looking for a solution, “Ma’s eyes [pass] Rose of Sharon’s eyes, and then [come] back to them. The girl’s breath [comes] short and gasping. She [says] ‘Yes.’” (618). This is a significant event because the extent of Rose’s transformation over the course of the book is revealed in one scene. By feeding the dying man, Rose exemplifies her newfound moral strength by, for the first time, looking past her own needs and considering the needs of others. Breastfeeding the man is an extremely uncomfortable and embarrassing act, and she sacrifices her humility for this

Walker tells a story of a young African American woman from Mississippi who is about to escape poverty and disgrace by marrying a man she barely knows, a Muslim from the North. Roselily has three children already when she marry 's her husband. Walker describes her as a woman with respect and compassion. This analysis will talk about Roselily during her poverty times, her marriage, and how she came to understand the changes in her life. Roselily did not understand a lot of things, however as time passed, she developed into a beautiful woman who came from poverty, and moved out of poverty by making some strong and powerful decisions. Decisions that made her life a better one. Throughout Roselily, Alice Walker uses mood, time and place in the setting to craft her story eloquently and effectively. This analysis will analyze the setting and the theme.

Claim: pg.: Rose also makes a religious reference with her justification for accepting Raynell as her own child. She attributes her reasoning to her understanding that Raynell is innocent even though she was born out of a sinful partnership. Rose rejects Troy as her partner because she takes seriously the Biblical commandment that decrees, "Thou Shalt Not Sin," but finds forgiveness for the child born to her sinful husband because of her belief that "when the sins of our fathers visit us/we don't have to play host/we can banish them with forgiveness/as God in his largeness and laws." To Rose, it is a godly act to bring Raynell into her home and a blessing to behold in the midst of her

Mrs. Rose, an 85-year-old Dominican woman, grew up in an urban town in South Carolina. She is the youngest of two sisters and one brother. Rose stated her life growing up was stressful after her parents separated. Also, she said her mother had to work two jobs so that she could provide for their family. Due to the fact of limited income with many mouths to feed, Rose's older siblings moved to their grandparent's house. She further stated once her siblings moved, there was not a relationship between the siblings, and her mother became abusive. Consequently, the stress of having to work two jobs coupled with Rose's mother experiencing abuse as a child kept the cycle of violence to continue. Rose stated her mother homeschooled her brother for the reason that the bruises left would have quickly alerted the department of family and children services. Moreover, Rose indicated her mother dropped out of middle school, and the education that her mother taught was not beneficial. As Rose developed, she noted discrimination started happening. Although she tried to disregard the racism, she stated the environment affected her ability to love.

Rose sees herself as a home maker, a devoted wife whose job is to keep the family together. She stood by her husband Troy through thick and thin. Even when he brought a child home from the affair he had, Rose took the baby and took care of her like she was

Being a new married couple is always exciting, sad, and definitely emotional, but of course you are going to go though that all when you're marrying the love of your life. Walking down that aisle with your dad and realizing your whole life is about to change, can be eye opening. In the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Rose of Sharon and Connie are a new married couple. Rose of Sharon and her husband spend the journey to California laughing and day- dreaming of all the possibilities of their new life there.

Alice Malsenior Walker was born February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. Her father Willie Lee Walker worked as a sharecropper and a dairy farmer. Her mother Minnie Walker worked as a maid to help support her family of eight children. Alice also married activist, Melvyn Leventhal in 1967. Alice and Melvyn had moved to Mississippi and became, “the first legally married inter-racial couple in Mississippi.” ( Beaulieu) They later had one daughter named Rebecca Walker in which they later divorced in 1976. Alice Walker, is a novelist, essayist, poet, and feminist.

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was awarded the W.D. Howells medal for fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1926. She had been writing for many decades prior to this and made a name for herself in the mid-1880s. She grew up in a home of orthodox Congregationalists and was expected to have very strict behavior. The roles in society for women during this time are key subjects in Freeman’s stories. In, “A New England Nun,” Freeman expresses the pressure and constraints of the obligation put on women to marry.

She would never fully understand Rose's motive in all this. Why this all had to be. However, the pain of it all, it was real. She couldn't understand it either. There was so much yet so little she knew. But when Rose's arms found her way around her she felt that warmth again. It melted her from the inside and she couldn't help but lean into the Gem for comfort.

I completey agree. In the beginning, Rose is basically the damsel in distress. Since she has Patrick by her side and is living a comfortable life as a middle-class wife, she doen't need to leave the comfort of her role as damsel in distress. As Rose's story continues, we see her become a single mother and a single working mother, situations where she can no longer be the damsel in distress as she has to try and put her family first. I think Rose really grew from that point on, now becoming the saviour in a sense. She goes back to Hanratty, the very place her story began, to take care of Flo & start a new story as the hero.

At times, there is a necessity for an outlet to express and cope with day to day struggles in life. Some use recreational activities or others might take a more religious approach using prayer. Then there are writers, those who express themselves through the delicacy of their words. One writer in particular who effectively express herself through writing is Alice Walker. Throughout her early life Walker held various influential jobs such as teaching, lecturing, social work and even played a role in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Growing up, Walker was the youngest of eight children. Her parents worked as sharecroppers and her mother also worked as a maid in order to provide for the sizeable family. Even with these jobs, Walker grew

However, her destiny did not include her being imprisoned by marriage. “I saw my whole life as if I had already lived it. An endless parade of parties and cotillions, yachts and polo matches. Always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared… or even noticed (Rose Butaker).” Which drove her to the escape of trying to commit suicide on the front of the Titanic where she was going to jump to her death, before Jack Dawson saved her. Rose had it all, but it essentially was not what she wanted, but what her mother wanted.