Alice Walker, esteemed author of The Color Purple, was born in a small town called Eatonton, Georgia in 1944. When she was 8 years old she was accidently shot in the eye by her brother while he was playing with his BB gun. By the time her parents could get her to a doctor the wound was so bad and she lost sight of her right eye. This created an imprint on her life and relationships with others. Walker spent her childhood detached from everyone and wrote poems in her room as an outlet for her emotions (Krstovic 366). Her relationship with her father was weak and insubstantial. However, she had always respected her mother’s strength while dealing with the tremendous struggles of poverty. Walker’s studious nature landed her a scholarship to Sarah
