Alice Munro

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson are novels that are both considered to be bildungsromans. They both have a strong sense of the character’s growth and journey to find their true selves, even when in a hostile environment. Both novels have an element of betrayal that force the protagonists Celie and Jeanette to face who they truly are, and fight back against a suppressive figure. Then, they must search for their own identity in a world…

“Go Ask Alice” The book I chose was “Go Ask Alice” by anonymous. It was published in March of 1971. There has been some controversy over the genera of the book, but it was classified as teen fiction, and has 215 pages. “Go Ask Alice” is about a teen girl whose name remains unknown throughout the book that gets mixed into the wrong group, and ends up addicted to drugs. She keeps a diary where she tells about all of her experiences, thoughts, and feeling, but the diary becomes her safe place,…

Alice Walkers’ book is titled, “Am I Blue?” the story is about a horse living on a few small acres of land not far from the authors’ home. Though the story seems quite simple and trivial, it gains momentum as it converts from a story of a horse to a comparison between animals and humanity. Alice Walker’s purpose in this piece is to convince the readers that animals can teach us many life lessons as well as, the different forms of pain and suffering that one can endure. She convinces us of this…

“Acceptance” “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” is an inspiring and motivating essay by the iconic african american writer Alice Walker. In this essay young Alice Walker describes how she was an outgoing and sassy young girl, until it all tragically came to an end. One day when she was playing with her older brothers, a BB from a gun her brother was using struck her in the eye. After this incident, sadly, she becomes blind in one eye. After this incident her personality then changes…

In the Book The color purple by Alice Walker the main character Celie is a very shy and timid women throughout the book, she has learned to never speak her mind and has always let men control everything about who she is. In a passage in the book, For the first time Celie demonstrates that standing up to those who once scared you or harmed you will give you an amazing strength to be confident in who you are and what you can do. The passage has a tone of strength and confidence on Celie’s part,…

In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Celie has three important characteristics, strength, innocence, and kindhearted. In the book there are several examples on why she can be labeled as strong to start it off, on when her father right molests her as a child (pg. 1). This can also be labeled as innocence because she is just a child that is innocent. Then on the next few pages Celie gets beat by her father “Pa” because he thinks she was winking at a boy when in fact she was just rubbing her eye…

In Alice Walker's ¨Beauty When The Other Dancer Is The Self¨ bears a significant amount of events in her life that were affected by an accident that influences the way she saw herself. In her autobiography, as an infant, she self-believed that she was the light at the end of the tunnel that was to be seen. The tragedy dramatically impacted her self-confident ¨It was great being cute¨,(44) which lead to the loss of physical beauty. Walker's essay is vivid illustrating powerful circumstances of…

Appeal 1: The main element of argument Alice Walker uses is Logos. Walker employs facts to give reason to her choices of what to include in her quilt. Walker describes a dress she loves and wears often. She chooses to make her quilt with that dress. One reason she gave to include the dress is she “was pregnant, so it didn’t fit” (Walker 56). A main reason Walker decides to include the dress in her quilt is the fact that she is pregnant, and cannot wear it. Tradition is also a large factor into…

"I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have." Alice Walker is one author that isn't afraid to be blunt with the readers, an author that doesn't sugar coat things that happened or things that can still happen even in today's world. Most people find her novel The Color Purple quiet awkward and disturbing. Alice Walker wasn't always good at writing or anything along those lines, until one of her many brothers had shot her in the eye with a BB gun causing her to go blind in that eye.…

Dynamic Character essay In the book-to-movie adaption by Alice Walker, The Color Purple shows us many dynamic characters throughout her story. Dynamic characters are people who show an inner change by events that take place. Throughout the story, characters like Celie, Albert, and Sofia have to face very impactful situations that change who they are as people. Some characters’ have a positive impact from their hardships while others attract a more secluded result. Sofia’s character is very…