Alice Walker Am I Blue

This short story portrays a horse, named Blue, trapped in a small, fenced in area with only five acres to explore. After some time, another horse shows up and brings a light in the horse’s, Blue’s, life. The two spent hours together, never leaving each others side. But soon after, the second horse is taken away for an unknown reason, which leaves Blue feeling angry and depressed. It can be inferred that the speaker of the short story is Alice Walker herself. Walker saw her own life in Blue, the reason as to why they had a connection. Walker felt lonely, than alive, than angry at the world. In the beginning, “Blue was lonely. Blue was horribly lonely and bored. I was not shocked that this should be the case; five acres to tramp by yourself, …show more content…
Alice Walker is a African American women, growing up in a segregated America and the civil rights movement showed her first hand how awful some people can be. And before all the anger, she may have felt lost in a world that rooted against her. Equally important, the title of this short story is “Am I Blue?”, as if the speaker, Alice Walker, is asking if she is Blue. Wondering if the two have a similar story or a connection of some sorts. From the beginning of the short story, the speaker took a quick interest in Blue, constantly watching and observing the horse. The speaker had started offering the horse apples, trying to create a bond between the two. The speaker could always see what it was that Blue felt; when Blue was lonely, full of life, than when Blue was full of despair. The connection between the two is evident, and the speaker has similar feelings to Blue towards the end of the short story: and anger towards humans and their mistreatment of animals. Seeing this new Blue, the speaker had looked and saw, “... in Blue’s large brown eyes was a new look, more painful than the look of despair: the look of disgust with human beings”(Paragraph