Alice Walker

In the play “Ruined” by Lynn Nottage, Mama Nadi serves the life of many women living in the Congo during the war. Her desires offer conflict with each other causing problems to appear for her and others. Her strategy of self-isolation helps her deal with many conflicts in order to self-achieve satisfaction. While her strategy does help her in many occasions it also creates self-obstacles she has to deal with on her own. She is unable to create relationships with other becomes a consequence of…

The theme of Sacrifices between the families is portrayed in the texts. Written text ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ by Jodi Picoult and short story ‘The Gift of the Magi’ by O’ Henry. Media text ‘Mamma Mia’ directed by Phyllida Lloyd and Script ‘Billy Elliot’ by Stephen Daldry. These texts introduce a range of sacrifice that can occur in family relationship; married couple, mother and child, father and child and between siblings. All of these texts are connected sacrificing their most valuable. The Gift…

It really is a coincidence that both Maggies in these stories have physical deformities. Maggie in “Everyday Use” has burned scars due to the fire that ate their house while Maggie in “Recitatif” is bow-legged and is probably mute and deaf. Both Maggies in both stories are oppressed and subjugated because of their incapability to speak up. Maggie in “Everyday Use” is afraid to speak up because of her lack of knowledge while Maggie in “Recitatif” can’t speak up because of her inability to speak.…

Literary Analysis of Short Story Everyday Use Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” was published in 1973 in the collection of stories, “In Love and Trouble.” It has become very popular, and probably the most anthologized of her stories (Winchell 80). “Everyday Use” is a short story told in first person by “Mama,” whose name is Mrs. Johnson, an African American woman living in the deep South with one of her two daughters. Through the use of setting, plot, and symbolism, the story is about the…

Directed by Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple, is a tale following a poor, young, black girl named Celie throughout the journey of her life filled with violence, and recovery. The film begins with Celie giving birth to a boy; she was raped and impregnated by her own father, whom takes the baby away from her. Celie's life centered mainly around her sister Nettie, her husband called Mister, and Shug Avery: who had three children with her husband. Experiences of grief, and violence, along with…

“Social Criticism in Marriage” In the novel, e.g. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen used social criticism to portray how she felt about women and marriage. Austen used the two characters Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas to show two totally different perspectives on marriage in this work. Social criticism during that time was more pressed on women back then rather than now for several reasons. Some women can feel like Elizabeth who felt as though marriage should be based on love. Other women…

The focus is on the TWO daughters (Thando and Mandisa), which are very different in style, color and attitude. However Mandisa is hoping by all means to try and change Thando to reach her level. Thando is Sipho's daughter, she is a teacher, and works at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings as the interpreter. She is very loving and caring especially to her father, she said "Let me get you a glass of water"(Kani,2002:39) and she made it clear to her boyfriend (Mpho) that "It's full…

Sisters with Different Aspects In the short story “Everyday Use” Maggie and Dee are two sisters but are different from each other. Both have different personalities such as things they have faced throughout their lives. The sisters grow up together with their mother by their side, but they both grow up with different things on their minds. Maggie is a girl that contrasts herself from her sister after she had an accident: “she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely ashamed of the burn…

The short story “Obliging” by Lorrie Moore is a very well written story about a girl named Patty. Patty has a mother named Joyce and a father named Ray. She also has three other siblings whose names remain unknown throughout the story. Patty is the oldest and the tallest of the three, but she isn't the most clever. Patty is very competitive and seems to enjoy her life through sports, which the family thinks is odd because the rest of the siblings find an interest in art. School sports is what…

‘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…