Use Of Distinguishing Features In Alice Walker's Writings

Distinguishing Features in Walkers Writings Throughout the history of writings, authors have changed their style, tone, and ideas; the biggest change is how and what they write about. Alice Walker is an author, activist, and also a poet. Inspired by personal experience, Walker portrays the struggles of African-American women to transcend the limits imposed on their lives by racism and sexism. Her characters usually face violence and hardship, and walker uses that to emphasize the power of hope and the strength of the human will to survive. At a young age, Walker lost sight in her right eye causing her to secede from the world turning to poetry to calm the feelings of isolation. Walkers mother supported her creative ambitions and encouraged her to do poetry. Walker uses inspiration from personal experience to write her stories and she also uses her writings to portray …show more content…
In Search of Our Mothers’ Garden is a short story that tells about her creative mother, how she took care of her children, and how it inspired her as her child. Walker states, “ And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see”(lines 46-48). This line has so much meaning and so much power that helps the reader to understand what it was like for African- American women in these times. Also in the beginning she says, “but when, you will ask, did my overworked mother have time to know or care about feeding the creative spirit” (lines 20-21). Her mother never had time to express her creativity and she could hardly find time for herself. Also she says the poem at the end of the short story doesn’t do any justice to her mother, or mothers around the world. She uses the poem to show how much mothers do and what they do for their children. She takes inspiration from her mother to write her stories and