How Does Alice Walker Show The Creativity In Search Of Our Mother's Garden

In Search of Our Mother’s Garden by Alice Walker is about the difficulties and hardships that black women at this time had to endure. Alice Walker’s point of view was black women were not able to show their creativity in society. They had no opportunities, careers, or jobs to show what they were capable of doing. Women were not allowed to express their creativity and intelligence through art and writing. They were nothing more than bodies that were used for hard labor work or getting pregnant.
However, even though women were restricted, they still had such wonderful creative things around them. One opportunity that women had to show their creativity was through nature. Alice Walker uses her mother as a symbol she experienced growing up that there is always an opportunity, we just have to search for it. Alice Walker’s mother took great pride in her garden. Walker eventually finds her own creativity by witnessing the power of her mother’s garden had on the town. It was so brilliant and filled with colors.. Alice Walker mentions how people would drive by her home to see her mother’s garden in Georgia. Walker’s mother has passes her creativity from her …show more content…
The subjects of the essays and speeches vary; some are on specific writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Jean Toomer, while others are on the Civil Rights Movement or the Cuban Revolution. All of the works share a very deep insight into the pain of oppression and the joy of living. Perhaps the most engaging aspect of reading various pieces in one volume is how Walker brilliantly connects the personal to the political in all of her work. She comes through her own writing as a personality wedded to social change, constantly and often painfully working toward justice as she defines it. “In the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle, and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged”