The finest explanation of an arduous life of African-Americans in the 20th century may be summed up in the quote:“Never was anything great achieved without danger” (Niccolo Machiavelli, 15th C). Alice Walker underscores this concept in both of her works in Everyday Use and The Color Purple. By creating fictional characters with enough confidence that they can stand bravely for themselves against discrimination and their lack of self-confidence, Walker portrays two pictures of female African-Americans in the twentieth century.
In Everyday Use, Alice Walker characterizes an impoverished, African-American house where the narrator shifts from lack of self-confidence to confidence. While narrator and her daughters are standing at an intersection of culture transforming and ancient heritage. These …show more content…
It was a tenebrous period of history for African-Americans, especially vulnerable to the females. The society and family install a “double jail” for Celie, and torments “[Celie] near about done rot to death”. When Celie feels “nobody loves [her]” and she is a“trees do everything people do to get attention,” even “God do not notice it” Fortunately, Celie meets Shug, who is bringing Celie sufficient confidence to view this darkness over depth fearlessly. The love comes from Shug helps Celie to reestablishment herself from mind to body, till Celie determined to leave Mister, “enter into creation” and harvest a new life without struggling with anybody, so that Celie has ability to shout “The jail [whoever] planned for me is the one [they]’re gonna rot in” out with all her rage and grief in the film. Her voice likes fire burns down the hypocritical mask of fairness and righteousness, burns down the discrimination likewise communicating confidence and ignite the yearn for freedom and esteem for female
In Everyday Use, Alice Walker characterizes an impoverished, African-American house where the narrator shifts from lack of self-confidence to confidence. While narrator and her daughters are standing at an intersection of culture transforming and ancient heritage. These …show more content…
It was a tenebrous period of history for African-Americans, especially vulnerable to the females. The society and family install a “double jail” for Celie, and torments “[Celie] near about done rot to death”. When Celie feels “nobody loves [her]” and she is a“trees do everything people do to get attention,” even “God do not notice it” Fortunately, Celie meets Shug, who is bringing Celie sufficient confidence to view this darkness over depth fearlessly. The love comes from Shug helps Celie to reestablishment herself from mind to body, till Celie determined to leave Mister, “enter into creation” and harvest a new life without struggling with anybody, so that Celie has ability to shout “The jail [whoever] planned for me is the one [they]’re gonna rot in” out with all her rage and grief in the film. Her voice likes fire burns down the hypocritical mask of fairness and righteousness, burns down the discrimination likewise communicating confidence and ignite the yearn for freedom and esteem for female