Alice Walker accomplished many achievements during her lifetime. She won the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, received the Fred Cody Award for lifetime achievement in 1990, and was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2006 (African American Poets). Most of her short stories expressed the struggles of black women and their lives in a racist, sexist, and violent society (Poem Hunter). “To Hell with Dying” was published when she was just twenty-three years old. It appeared in the “Best Short Stories by Negro Writers”. This short story was also edited by Langston Hughes and republished in 1988 as a children's book (Literary Society). Her first collection of poems titled “Once” was published in 1968 which is
