An Analysis of The Flowers by Alice Walker

The Flowers By Alice Walker Written in the 1970's The Flowers is set in the deep south of America and is about Myop, a small 10-year old African American girl who explores the grounds in which she lives. Walker explores how Myop reacts in different situations. She writes from a third person perspective of Myop's exploration. In the first two paragraph Walker clearly emphasises Myop's purity and young innocence. "She skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen". This…

Tamica Powell September 30, 2011 Everyday Use Analysis Everyday Use is a compelling story of a mother's conflicting relationships with her two daughters. Maggie, which the mother feels contains more practical and traditional ways of living life and then Dee her oldest and most promising daughter, who she feels has broken away from tradition and has lost a lot of their heritage. At first glance you would see this as the normal mother daughter spat of maybe the wild child versus the little…

Analysis of ’The Flowers’ by Alice Walker How do we lose our childish way of seeing the world? How can we suddenly they see the world as it is, in all its evil? ‘The Flowers’ is a story about a young girl who goes through an experience that forces her into changing her way of seeing life, and it presents themes like growing up and loss of innocence. The main character of the story is Myop, a 10-year-old girl without any major worries in life. The only thing we know about her physical appearance…

In a very similar way the author of “The Flowers,” Alice Walker, knew very well how to illustrate the surrounding to the utmost details in her story. Myop and Alice share a special appreciation and awe for the beautiful surroundings. Alice was also raised in her parent’s farm; providing extra special attention to the realistic portrayal of a sharecropper’s farm in the South. Besides Alice’s close involvement as a sharecropper’s daughter, she also shared an incident that scared her life at a very…

Alice Walker      Alice Walker is an African American essayist, novelist and poet. She is described as a “black feminist.”(Ten on Ten) Alice Walker tries to incorporate the concepts of her heritage that are absent into her essays; such things as how women should be independent and find their special talent or art to make their life better. Throughout Walker’s essay entitled “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens,” I determined there were three factors that aided Walker gain…

“The Flowers” by Alice Walker is a short story written in the 1970’s. The story focuses on Myop, a ten year old African American girl who loves to explore the land in which she lives. Carefree and naïve, Myop decides to travel further away from her ‘Sharecropper cabin’ and travels deep inside the woods to unfamiliar land where she discovers the decomposed body of an African American man. It is then Myop quickly grows up and suddenly becomes aware of the world in which she lives. The story relies…

Alice Walker shows Myops innocence and subsequent loss thereof through her usage of vivid imagery as well as the small setting and symbolism in “The Flowers”. Myop’s sudden exposure to the harsh reality of racism surrounding her shatters her innocence. The tone of the short story changes abruptly showcasing the main characters shift in how she sees the world. For she is suddenly and violently thrust into a world in which skin color dictates how others in society will treat her. There is a clear…

• Alice is the main character in Alice in wonderland because she is the first character mentioned in the play and the story is named after her. Alice is also a shy girl “ Alice very quietly wandered away and sat down under a tree”pg2 • Alice in wonderland takes place during summer in a magical place called wonderland. I know this because the play is called Alice in wonderland. “One warm and quiet summer afternoon, a little girl named Alice was in her garden”…

writings of Alice Walker has inspired her audience to vision many viewpoints of her life and political circumstances. Walker has been wounded repeatedly, seem to be starting from her childhood, and it remains her calling to bring healing to her own wounds and in the process, to bring healing to others (Winchell 86). Walker uses metaphors and imagery to tell her stories in a way that makes her audience feel as if their living the characters life. In her short stories “The Flowers” Walker writes about…

and fictional characters in both short stories written by, Alice Walkers, titled “The Flowers” and “Roselily”. “Alice Malsenoir Walker (Walker) is an award winning novelist, poet and feminist…” stated by, “Editors Biblograpghy” who also announced: “…Alice Walker is one of todays most prized African-American working writer. Currently, she’s best known for her Pulitzers prize winning novel “The Color Purple”. (Editors) Walker is the youngest daughter of eight children to her parents…