Alice Walker's Nineteen Fifty-Five

In the article by Alice Walker, “Nineteen Fifty-Five,” she talks about successful and the unsuccessful celebrities using Gracie Mae Still and Traynor. Gracie Mae Still was the narrator of the “Nineteen Fifty-Five” article. Traynor was a young fellow who looked about sixteen of age. There is no one who would not want to become famous in the world, but people have their own reasons and situations to become a famous or not. First of all, famous people are rich, as their character and countenance helped them to achieve this. Secondly, famous people do not receive happiness all the time. Thirdly, famous people could learn the best lesson from being famous.
Traynor was famous for being the “Emperor Rock and Roll” (1960). He was a young prospective singer who purchased a song from Gracie Mae Still, which became his “first hit record”(1968). That record made him famous and rich. If someone is famous for something, they received more money, which makes them rich. When they are rich, they could do anything they wanted to do and could buy anything they want. Traynor …show more content…
We can see that for sure in Traynor’s life. “Everybody still loves that song of yours. They ask me all the time what do I think it means, really. I mean, they want to know just what I want to know. Where out of your life did it come from (1960)”? Traynor does not know the meaning of the song and he spends most of his life trying to find out what it means. Who would like to figure out the meaning of one song for their entire life? That will never bring happiness in a person’s life. Sometimes being famous could lead to suicide instead of happiness because some bad news that a famous person heard of social media or other they could end up with suicide. According to “Korean Personalities Who Committed to Suicide and their suicide notes” by SilentMonstar, some famous people are committed to suicide mostly because of “depression and