Essay on Analysis of Alice Walker's short story, Nineteen Fifty-five

In Alice Walker’s, Nineteen Fifty-Five, a young white singer, Traynor, acquires song rights from an African American rhythm and blues singer, Gracie Mae. The song makes Traynor rich and famous. Obsessed with finding out the song’s meaning, Traynor remains in contact with Gracie Mae through letters, gifts, and visits. The conflict of the story is in Traynor’s inability to ascertain the meaning of the song. Traynor eventually passes away, without ever resolving the conflict.

His appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show gave the network the highest rating at the time, and yet “Elvis the Pelvis” was shot only from waist up. His hip dusting moves was too risque for 1950s Americans, along with his nature. Yet Elvis was a very religious man; daily he would read the bible, he would never drink, and most of his songs had religious connotations. He was a humble man who remembered where he came from.Elvis Presley was born and raised in Tupelo, Mississippi. He grew up with little money, and his family lived off of welfare. During the year of 1948 Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 13, and there he was introduced to the black community. In Memphis he was a frequent singer at the Reverend H.W. Brewster’s black Memphis church where he learned gospel music.

The author portrayed Elvis as “a butch god” and “teddy bear”. Elvis was a “macho folk hero”. The author used her own experience of being an Elvis fan, and then became a feminist to reject Elvis. However, when Elvis died, the author felt sad because in her adolescence, the author was disappointed to her life and felt isolated to the society, Elvis’s music and films gave her special care and encouraged her to be better and be more confident. Therefore, Elvis is like a teddy bear that gave author care. I think the most interesting quote in this article is that “Feminism was supposed to be about questioning all male constructions of reality and knowledge, about reworking male common sense understandings of the world. In the case of Elvis, male

I pointed a chubby finger up at Elvis, looking back expectantly, upon which I noticed several things. First off, there was no response to my call. I looked up at the towering, sun-beat giants above me, ears straining desperately for some sort of reply. Secondly, after glancing around more, there were no familiar faces at all. I didn’t see my mother’s casual backpack and baby-carrier, or her familiar, worn purse, or even my little sister, tottering besides her, too small to walk long distances. Third, somebody would probably buy that Elvis before I did if I couldn’t find my mom soon.

This is a story about the famous rock and roll. He loved to play guitar but when he was little he wanted a rifle but his mom told him to get a guitar. When he got his guitar he would bring it to school every day he would play for his classmates and even the principle liked his music. When he grew up he was poor but when he played guitar the principal wanted him to play live. In his high school years he graduated from Humes high school on june 3, 1953. When elvis graduated he worked at parker machinists

It claims that Elvis was an another alien, this time sent down from Mars to destroy the universe. Maybe it wasn’t a heart attack that took him out after all…

In 1935 Elvis Aron Presley is born in Tupelo, Mississippi. In 1953, when he was 18 years old he started earning money as a truck driver. Also during the same year he records two of his songs for 4 dollars. In 1954, Elvis visits the Memphis Recording service to record another 2 songs and meets the Sun Records owner Sam Philips. In the same year, the Sun Records releases "That's All Right" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky. Elvis makes his first public appearance. In 1955, he signs a contacts with Tom Parker. Elvis continued performing and writing songs till he died in August 16,

On his 11tth birthday Elvis wanted a bike his parent couldn't afford a bike so his parents got him guitar instead. His uncle gave some guitar lesson. As a teenager Elvis grow up listening these music's country, blues and gospel. When Elvis was in 5th grade he participated in a talent show which he won. After Elvis gradated high school, he took job as a truck driver. Once a while he took a visit to sun records and showed his voice. From there his music took off. Some people were very into his music specially teenagers my grandma said she enjoyed listing his music because he had a very unique voice and he also brought new music to our country. His first single "that's all right" was the number one on the charts in 1954 (biography.com). Later

In 1948 Elvis and his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where Elvis graduated from Humes High School in 1953. There his life was influenced by the musical atmosphere that existed in the city, from the gospel of the church to pop, country and R & B that was heard in the streets. Shortly after graduating in June 1953, Elvis began to explore the possibilities of singing professionally. In August he entered the offices of the local label Sun Records to record a self-produced single, with two songs, "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin". In January 1954 he recorded a second single with the songs "I Will Never Stand In Your Way" and "It Would not Be the Same Without You". Then he held auditions to enter the vocal quartet "The

Elvis Presley had some important events in his life, he served in the US army in 1958 to March 1960. On February 1, 1968 his daughter, Lisa Marie was born. On November 20, 1955 he signed his first contract with RCA records. On January 27, 1956 the “Heartbreak Hotel’’ is released and earned him his first gold record

On deeper scale learning from what Elvis did during his life will teach others that it is okay to make mistakes, learn from them and move on. I want to know how it affected him when producers denied him. How he felt with people reacted to his music. Elvis was a man that didn’t really show his feelings, so I want to dig down deep to understand and analysis the aspects of his life and what factors made him into one of the most influential human beings in music history still known today.

Whether Alice Walker portrayed Traynor as Elvis is unclear to most, there is a very strong connection. Elvis Presley’s music career started in 1955 and gained fast momentum in 1956 making him an international sensation. This would coincide with the “nasty little jerk” that Gracie was viewing on

Elvis career and music is thanks to not only his great talents but, his marketing team at RCA. In the book Rockin’ In Time it states that girls woke up and fell asleep to images and merchandise that was marketed to young girls, “All told, the fan could buy seventy-eight different

     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 concepts of her heritage which are through artistic ability, her foremothers and artistic models.

‘Hound Dog’ is a song, which is best known as being performed by Elvis Presley in 1956. The song was originally written for and recorded by Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton. Presley performed the song in a