Alice Liddell

Alice Walker is a very influential Pulitzer Prize winning writer, African-American novelist, and social activist who is most notably famous for her authoring of “The Color Purple.” She was born in 1944, just about decade before the civil rights movement, in Eatonton, Georgia to sharecropper parents and is the youngest of eight children. In 1973, during part of a period of discovery where she embarked on exploring writing in all its forms, Walker published the short story collection In Love and…

‘Still I Rise’ by the American, Maya Angelou presents the character of a black woman who is oppressed in the 1970s but refuses to accept this. ‘Disabled’ by Wilfred Owen, however, is concerned with a character who is ‘broken’ after the disabilities he suffers in the First World War at the beginning of the twentieth century. The poem ‘Still I Rise’ is about a woman who discloses that she will overcome anything due to her self-confidence. The line ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise’ is a metaphor…

No matter where a person may come from, everyone encounters a similar journey. The journey that is heard in stories is symbolic to what anyone may go through in life. In the story “A worn path”, an old women goes through many obstacles as she is on the pathway to acquiring what she sought after. In order to better convey the hero’s journey in the story A Worn Path, Eudora Welty uses characterization, symbolism, and conflict. In the story characterization is used to describe the main character…

The novel The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young African American girl in Ohio who faces great adversity as a result of her race, gender, and age. She wants nothing more than to have blue eyes, believing that they would make her beautiful and improve her quality of life. She lives in a small house with her mother, Pauline, her father, Cholly, and her brother, Sammy. In an excerpt titled “Battle Royal” from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, the narrator faces…

In the book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Edward Tulane is a vain, self-absorbed, three-foot-tall china rabbit from France who thinks to have all he could want. Fancy clothes, a tiny gold pocket watch and Abilene, a girl who loves him with all her heart. On page 3 in the book the author states “He had china arms and china legs, china paws and a china head, a china torso and a china nose. His arms and legs were jointed and jointed by wire so that his china elbows and china knees could…

a sign letting me know¬ what is happening to me.” (1) “Dear Nettie, I will write more when things start looking up. I trust god will.” (206). these letters signifies that Celie relationship with god is strong. In his essay Identity and religion in Alice Walker’s the Color Purple Dehghani Mahdi stated that, “God is represented as a shadow confident to whom Celie can neither mail her letters, nor can she completely convey her thoughts. However God functions as a listener to her story and a…

the Norton Edition, which are all black and white. Alice, who does not appear to be much larger than the other animals, is trying to hold onto the goose. A parrot is seen flying away, a frog is running away, and another goose has been knocked over by Alice who we can assume is trying to help the goose she is trying to catch. Alice has a small smile on her face and appears to be much more amused in this depiction of Alice in Wonderland. Alice appears to be enjoying the chaos that she is…

Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944 a self-proclaimed womanist. Womanist is a term that she is credited with creating and means a black feminist or a feminist who is a woman of color. Alice was the youngest of eight children who grew up in the rural south. Alice lived and was educated during the time of the ‘Jim Crow Laws’. It was a period of time when the education for blacks was of such a low and inferior quality when compared to the educational standards provided for white Americans…

camera angles and of course signature actor choices. Tim Burton’s most visible choice to the average person is the costumes and color choice. He is known for having a darker approach on his perspective of everyday life, for example, In the film “Alice in Wonderland”, in the battle scene we see the White Queen vs the Queen of Hearts, the contrasting colors of the red to the white displays the seriousness and harsh difference between the two sides and personalities, this…

narrated by main protagonist, Ort. The plot encompasses the life of Ort, his mother – Alice and family helper, Henry. These characters all show strengths, however, some are clearly stronger than others. Commonly used by Winton, is the practice of symbolism and allusions, allowing the reader to understand the characters from an in-depth, empathetic aspect. Similarly, the style of first person narrative, also allows…