April Walker Essay

     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.

“Oh, there you are” her mother would reply Jordan would giggle, then run back out the back door with no shoes on. For a few days Jordan came inside the house limping on one foot, crying to her mother, “Mommy, I got cactus stuck in my foot” her mother would sit there with tweezers, pulling out each spine from the heel of her foot Jordan flinching each time she yanked one out. As soon as her mother was done, she'd look at her mother thankful she could help her, but still a tear still rolled down her face onto the floor from the surging pain now in her foot. Her mother would look at her in the eyes and repeat “You better learn how to wear your shoes” Jordan would nod, then limp off to her room to take a nap. One day, Jordan opened her eyes, she looked out the door and found her mother to be in the yard digging up cactus in the yard. Jordan made sure to put on some shoes and ran outside hiding around the corner of the house. Her mother saw her peeking around the corner of her house and said “Jordan, do you want to come help me?” Jordan smiled disappearing back around the house. She ran around the other side of the house trying to make her mother to jump. Kristina would giggle and say “Get over here you little turd” Jordan would run up to her mother, hug her, then look up at her saying “I love you mom” as her mother looked down

Alice Walker's short fictional story, "Nineteen Fifty-five", revolves around the encounters among Gracie Mae Still, the narrator, and Traynor, the "Emperor of Rock and Roll." Traynor as a young prospective singer purchases a song from Mrs. Still, which becomes his "first hit record" and makes him rich and famous. Yet, he does not "even understand" the song and spends his entire life trying to figure out "what the song means." The song he sings seems as fictional as certain events in this story, but as historical as Traynor's based character, Elvis Presley.

In life, people care about their appearances and how they are seen in the eyes of others. Alice Walker cares about how the world portrays her looks and her personality. She is confident in her looks, but at the age of eight, she is involved in an “accident.” This “accident” alteres not only her eyesight but alters the way she sees herself. Because she believes no one finds her pretty anymore, she loses confidence within herself. Alice and I have a lot in common when it comes to this type of situation. I was once in a situation very similar, but it is involving my teeth. An injury to my jaw made my teeth shift, leading me to believe my smile is not as pretty as it once was. Eventually, Alice and I both discover the true beauty within our flaws and feel happy once again.

The paramedics rushed over to Angelica, checked her pulse, the paramedic said, “She has no pulse, we have to get her to the nearest hospital quick.” Marie started crying and screaming, “Oh my God, Oh my God, Please, help my baby.” Aunt Lori held Marie. As they were working with Angelica, Aunt Lori rushed to the phone and called David and Simone to tell them to meet them at the hospital. After hanging up, the paramedics rushed Angelica out the door, Marie rode in the ambulance with them. Aunt Lori rushed out behind them following the ambulance. When they made it to the hospital, they rushed Angelica inside, were there was Doctors waiting. As they rushed Angelica to the back, Marie tried to follow them, but one of the paramedics stopped her and said, “Maam, she’s in good hands, I’m sorry, but you can’t go back there.” “That’s my daughter.” said Marie. “Maam, I’m sorry, but you can’t.” said the paramedic. Marie walked off, headed to the waiting area, she was still crying. When she got to the waiting area, Aunt Lori rushed to her side. “What did they say?” ask Aunt Lori. “They told me that I can’t go back there.” said Marie. As they were talking, Simone and David rushed in. “Mom, What happened?” ask Simone. “I don’t know.” cried Marie. “Mom, come sit down.” said David. Marie kept crying. “It’s going to be alright, Angelica will be just fine.” said David. “Aunt Lori what happened?” ask Simone. “We were all asleep, then Angelica started screaming, she was crying and complaining about her head, she said that her head was hurting real bad, so Marie went and got a warm towel and placed it on her forehead, but she was still in pain, so I called the ambulance, when they arrived Marie and I rushed to the door to let them in and when they rushed to the back, they said Angelica had no pulse.” “Oh my God.” said Simone. “Have the Doctor or anyone spoken to you?” ask David. “No, just before you both arrived, they rushed her in the back.” said Marie. They all sat and

Meet Melinda, She's is attending her first day of high school at Merryweather High, And it does not go so well. All her old friends won't talk to her, because she called the cops at the end-of-the-summer party . Other students laugh at her. Rachel says she hates her. Melinda wishes she could tell everything to Rachel, but she can’t speak. English class is taught by a woman with "no face", which Melinda calls Hairwoman. Melinda's doesn’t like her Social Studies teacher, she calls him Mr. Neck. Lunch went pretty bad. She didn't have anyone to sit with because all her old friends are mad at her for what she did, then a guy hits Melinda with mashed potatoes and then she ran out of the lunchroom. Mr. Neck stops her, and since she can't tell him

The story begins with Mama waiting in the yard for her eldest daughter Dee to return. Mama’s yard is an extension of her living room: the dirt ground flows into the small shack without separation. We are told little about Mama's husband; he is simply out of the picture and all of Mama's accomplishments, including the raising of her children, seem to be done by her own hand. Walker does not state the geographic setting outright, but we can surmise that Mama’s small farm is located somewhere in rural Georgia.

A day after eight year old Ashton’s birthday, he finds his father and complains that something just isn’t right. “I don’t feel natural” Ashton told his father. “Why? What do you mean?” “I wish I was born a girl.” as she turns away running into his room, bawling his eyes out. Thomas chases him to his room saying “Hold on little buddy what’s the matter”. Once again the boy still crying intensely says “I’m not a boy! I want to be a girl!” and then buries himself in his pillow. Thomas calls for Julia, and she rushes in “What’s the matter?”. Once again the boy responds with “I want to be a girl! I’m in the wrong body, I hate this body!”. The father worried but for some reason angry rushes out into the hallway. He blames his wife saying “It’s all your fault.” She responds “How is this my fault you’re crazy” He then stresses to his wife “This is because you’ve gotten him all these girly toys growing up”. “You’ve always treated him like he was some princess”. She starts to cry. He continues, “the kid thinks he’s in some other body because of you, you ruined my little man”. She yells “Shut up! Shut up! I have had enough of this! Maybe it’s just a phase.” “You better hope it is” Thomas says. “What?” she confusedly asks “I better hope”. The husband storms out the house, probably going to a bar to drink his problems away. The wife runs to her boy’s room to try to calm him down. She tells him “Don’t worry about your father, if you really believe this, we’ll help you make your change. Only if you feel the same way you feel now when you are twelve.” The boy remembers her words, every day until the day of his twelfth

Have you ever heard of or wonder whom the activist and author Alice Walker is? Alice Malsenior Walker was born in 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. She is the youngest of eight children and her parents were sharecroppers. Walker lost the sight in her right eye when she was eight due to her brother having shot her eye with a BB gun. Even though she lost the sight in her eye it never stopped her, Walker published over 30 books, including novels and short stories, poetry, non-fiction books, and essays. Walker was also selected for many awards and honors, but the most notable one is the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Color Purple. While Walker is well known for her works in literature she is also known for being an activist. Walker’s early family life and the people she met played an important role in her becoming an activist.

Adams, Timothy Dow, Mary A. Blackmon, and Holly L. Norton. “Alice Walker.” Critical Survey ​of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition (2010): 1-10. Literary Reference Center. Web. 11 Feb.​​ 2017. In a biographical essay written Alice Walker, Timothy Adams speaks on the idea ​that change and personal triumph are possible despite the odds is central to all of Walker’s ​writing. The author states that Walker work focuses directly or indirectly on the ways of ​survival adopted by black women, usually in the South, and is presented in a prose style ​characterized by a distinctive combination of lyricism and unflinching realism.​Walker uses her writing to

Alice Walker, famed author and civil rights activist, was born to sharecropper parents in Eatonville, Georgia in February of 1944. Alice was the youngest daughter of sharecroppers; her mother also worked as a maid to help support her eight children. At a young age, an incident with her older brothers seriously damaged her eye when her brother Curtis accidentally shot Walker in the eye with a BB gun while playing “cowboys and Indians.” To avoid getting into trouble with their parents, Walker’s frightened brothers made up a story and convinced naive Alice to go along with it. The result was Walker lost the sight in her right eye. A disfiguring white scar developed. Walker became very self-conscious of this mark. This incident molded her early years and caused her to largely withdraw from the world around her. She felt ugly and disfigured, so she found solace in reading and writing poetry. This incident and her modest family roots contributed to her writing style exposed in later works.

YourFirstName YourLastName Instructor's Name Course Title 15 March 2015 Alice Walker Lazo, Caroline E. Alice Walker. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1999. Print.

Alice Walker is an American novelist who is also a supporter of human rights. Her stories are deep images for those fighting inequities and prejudice. They show universal themes of love, sacrifice and familial bonds. The protagonists from Walker’s stories, “Everyday Use” and “The Welcome Table”, have several similarities such as being strong, how they put up with racism and how the church affects them.

Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in the town of Ward Chapel in Eatonton, Georgia. She was the youngest of eight children and her parents were sharecroppers. When Alice was about 8 years old, she was playing cowboys and Indians with her older brothers Curtis and Bobby and was accidentally shot in the right eye with a pellet from a BB Gun. From this injury, whitish scar tissue formed in the right eye and she became self-conscious of this mark. Because of her self-consciousness, she withdrew from the world and people and instead found a safe place in reading and writing poetry. But when she was fourteen, her older brother William gave her the needed resources and encouragement so that she could undergo eye surgery. Now, there’s a tiny blue sphere where she got shot. Alice lived in the racially segregated part of the south, so naturally she went to an all black school. Alice attended elementary and middle school at East Putnam Consolidated, which was established in 1948 by her father, Willie Lee Walker. Because of the area she lived in, she attended the only high school open to blacks in Eatonton,

“where?!” she asked excitedly. “It’s a surprise!” They hopped in the car, Jon driving, Lucy very excited. Lucy puts on their favorite song on the radio, and smiled him as he drove. “He is the one” She thought. Suddenly everything was a blur and she was not smiling anymore. Everything went silent. The car crash felt like it lasted for hours. Lucy screamed maniacally, “Jon? Jon are you okay?!” “Jon!” There was still silence, and he did not respond. She saw blood, and instantly knew her boyfriend was not okay. Bright flashing lights appeared all around her and a paramedic started to pull her out from under the car. “I need to see Jon!” she screeched as the paramedic put her in the ambulance. “Did she even hear me?” Lucy