Essay about The Flowers By Alice Walker

I was particularly interested in Camille Dungy’s “Tales from a Black Girl on Fire, or Why I Hate to Walk Outside and See Things Burning” which we read from the book Colors of Nature Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. I thought that our discussion in class of her poem was quite good, and realized it was something I wouldn't mind thinking a little bit more about. As I reread the poem, I found a few sentences that I still didn't quite understand what she meant by. In light of this, I have decided to write on what I believe to be her meaning. I wasn't sure why the fear of walking outside didn’t hit her until she moved to an old plantation sate. Why would it take up until then if she had been hearing her families history her entire life?

A child holds innocence from a young age and does not understand the importance of having compassion. As a child's innocence gradually fades away due to maturity, he or she transforms into a compassionate person. In a coming of age short story called, “Marigolds,” the author Eugenia Collier writes about a series of events about a young girl, named Lizabeth, develops into a compassionate person. Lizabeth narrates these events in a flashback that involves the marigolds of her neighbor, Miss Lottie. Miss Lottie's marigolds represented the essence of hope in the midst of the town, filled with dust and dirt. Despite the dirt and dusty roads that were accompanied by the house, Miss Lottie decided to plant her marigolds. The effect of economic struggles the townspeople go through causes Lizabeth to destroy Miss Lottie's marigolds. Throughout the short story,

Gender inequality was a big issue during the early 1900s, and especially for the African American women because some “Africa American women were used as sex slaves or just slaves in generally” (Karpowitz). These women were treated badly even if it was from their dad or their "husband"/owners, but at the end of the day they knew only one person who these women can trust which is God. In Alice Walker’s novel, she shows and expresses how women will have bad times or bumps on the road, but if they keep going towards their dream they will succeed. Walker also showed how women did not have a voice to stand up for themselves but later in their life they started getting together to fight back for their rights. In The Color Purple, Alice Walker demonstrates gender inequality in the lives of African Americans in the early 1900s.

Alice Walker wrote ‘The Color Purple’ in order to capture and highlight the hardship and bitterness African-American women experienced in the early 1900s. She demonstrates the emotional, physical and spiritual revolution of an abused black girl into an independent, strong woman. The novel largely focuses on the role of male domination and its resulting frustrations and black women’s struggle for independence. The protagonist, Celie’s, gain of an independent identity, away from her family, friends, work, and love life, forms the plot of the novel.

In the book Seedfolks, a character named Kim enters a vacant lot in her town, Cleveland, Ohio, to plant Lima Beans to honor her father, who passed away before Kim was even born. While Kim is in the process of planting her beans and watering them daily, people around the vacant lot being to notice her actions . Many people followed what Kim was doing and made their own little garden, which causes the community of Cleveland to be together and to communicate with one another. Throughout the book many characters come and go in the garden, and each character shares something in common with someone else. The garden brings people together, and helps them communicate with one another, without the garden, some people might never have communicated with someone that has a different appearance as them. The novel Seedfolks shows us, that the garden changed everyone’s perspectives on people in their community and how they judge them by appearance. It shows how you can give someone chances, before you can judge them. Some people that show this theme, are Kim, Ana, Sae Young, Maricela, Sam, and Curtis.

Coming of age in Mississippi by Anne Moody tells the story of her life as a poor African American growing up in America in the midst of racism and poverty. When Anne Moody was four years old Anne and her little brother had to be left at home while her parents worked in the fields. They were babysat by their uncle who was mean to them and regularly beat her up. In an attempt to scare her he accidentally burned down their house, blaming it on Anne. This event had a tremendous effect on the family and eventually led to her father leaving her mother for a fair-skinned younger woman. Anne noted her mother’s hatred for the other woman in terms of race. She remembered the woman was usually described as “yellow”. This event points out how early Moody’s unique perspective on race began to form.

The award-winning novel, “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker, is a story about a woman going through cruel things such as: incest, rape, and physical abuse. This greatly written novel comes from a very active feminist author who used many of her own experiences, as well as things that were happening during that era, in her writing. “The Color Purple” takes place in the early 1900's, and symbolizes the economic, emotional, and social deprivation that African American women faced in Southern states of America. The main character of the story is Celie, a fourteen-year old that starts writing letters to God for thirty years, and then to her sister, Nette, who ran away to Africa to save herself from the troubles Celie went through. Celie starts off as a pushover and very dependent girl that would eventually grow and develop into an independent flourishing woman that opens a business making pants for all genders. This novel shows the hardship of a girl becoming a woman over the course of her life and eventually standing up for herself and being confident. Many of the experiences and characters of “The Color Purple” are based on history of that time and a bit of the author’s personal experiences. Her use of epistolary allows the reader to learn everything in the point of view of Celie. Alice Walker's influences for writing this novel range from her childhood experiences to the white society in her hometown of Eatonville, Georgia. Even during these times, it still shows that women

In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel “The Bean Trees”, she effectively uses colourful language to yield an image of rural Kentucky to her readers. Her descriptive imagery trigger thoughts, feelings, and mood. Kingsolver’s dialect, tone and Southern style also advance the plot which we see as she opens the story and as it progresses into each chapter.

The author uses diction to paint the "New World" as a dirty dark place where no beauty can be found. "Whatever Utopian of human virtue" and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest "practical necessity to allot a portion of the virgin soil as their cemetery" and another portion "as the site of a prison". The author goes on to say that the people of the new world

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

Anybody can change your life in a negative or a positive way. Marguerite is a little girl who values education and she admire a woman by the name of Mrs. Flowers. As the story progresses you can tell that Mrs. Flowers is very fond of Marguerite and Marguerite thinks that Mrs. Flowers should be spoken to with respect, because she believes that's what she deserves. The theme of the story is you never know who is going to change your life. Mrs. Flowers taught her that not everybody needs an education to be intelligent, because they learn in their own special way that others may not understand, but to them it like second nature.

Due to her innocence, Myop is oblvious to her current home life, yet as she strays from home and adventures into the woods, her innocence is lost.. Myop starts out as a very young and innocent little girl. Her name is very ironic because “Myopia” is the medical name for nearsightedness, which is symbolic of her inability to see past the surface of her surroundings(dictionary.com).

“In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” written by Alice Walker refers to three points in the essay: the first is black women writers, second is the Civil Rights Movement, and the third is her own advice for future generations of women. Walker uses the poem from Jean Toomer as an example to show the black women from Reconstruction of the South time period. The women are slaves and kept in their places. They have little hope of their own freedoms of choice, speech, or livelihood. Phillis Wheatley is an example of how women can overcome their situations and indeed have freedom of creativity. She chose writing and the women that have learned

The Grass Is Singing narrates the life events of Mary Turner shaped by colonial experience, in the Rhodesian veld and South Africa, and questions the entire values of the Rhodesian white colonial society. Lessing spins an intricate text, interweaving Mary’s life and struggle in a colonial world. In vibrant details, Lessing describes the effects of a society under colonization – a culture polluted by the rigid infrastructure of patriarchy – giving rise to gender and race discriminations. The author traces Mary’s psychological growth during the numerous phases of

When reading Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” and “Everyday Use,” it is evident that she writes about her life through her use of allegory. Alice Walker uses the events of her childhood, her observation of the patriarchy in African American culture, and her rebellion against the society she lived in to recount her life through her stories. Alice Walker grew up in a loving household in the years towards the end of the Great Depression. Although her family was poor, they were rich in kindness and perspective and taught Walker a lot about her heritage and life.