Alice Walker

Pedophilia, racism , and terrible events , all recurring topics in both “The Bluest Eye “ and “The Color Purple” . Both movie and book cover uncomfortable , yet real topics that people of color were faced with in earlier times.Two girls specifically I am going to compare is a girl named Celie and a girl named Pecola , both had certain similar situations. A topic that I will start off with , is how in both the movie and book , a girl was raped at a young age which caused them to become pregnant.…

The Color Purple also showcases sacrifice within the context of a familial relationship, in the form of Celie and Nettie. As the oldest child in her family, Celie takes care of her younger siblings more and more as her mother becomes sicker, eventually becoming the surrogate mother for them once her mother dies. She also begins to take her mother’s place in another sense, because as her mother loses the inclination to be physical with her stepfather, she becomes the new provider for Alphonso’s…

What is purple and pink and has success written all over her? Well, some might say that it is the very successful CEO of Lime Crime Cosmetics. Her name is Doe Deere and her rise to success was a bit bumpy. Still, she believes that pursuing her dream and never giving up is the key to her success story. The purple and pink haired CEO of Lime Crime Cosmetics was born in Russia. However, she moved to the United States at the age of 17 to pursue her dream. Her early dream was to become a musician.…

Alice Walker: Setting as a Developmental Tool How would you expect one to feel when discovering a dead man’s body? What if someone has a clashing world with that of her daughter causing a severed relationship? Alice Walker is the world-renowned author of both novels, like “The Color Purple” and short stories like “The Flowers”. She developed both conflicts in two of her literary works. In ‘The Flowers” and ‘Everyday Use” Walker uses setting to develop the conflict of the texts. Alice Walker…

The Epiphany a Harsh Society Brings A rose is pure, innocent, sweet, and full of life until something or someone corrupts its natural beauty. In the short story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, her main character Myop has a mind-changing experience in the woods behind her home. After a meeting with a dead man, Myop is no longer oblivious to her surroundings and realizes that there is true evil in the world she lives in. The sweet little song is no longer her soul focus, the author makes Myop grow…

In the story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, Walker writes about African American's traditional identity through the relationship between a mother and her two daughters, Dee and Maggie. Mama and Dee have very different ideas about what "heritage" is. For Mama, the heritages are naturally infused from the past family to the present family who are using them. For Maggie, the quilts are valuable to her because of the memories of specific people in family, not because of some abstract notion of…

Cupping Student Debt In this cartoon, Joe Heller illustrates the feelings that every student has in relation to students loans. Heller’s purpose in this cartoon is to draw attention to the enormity and un-manageable amount of debt they acquire over the course of their college career. He uses a combination of wording, design and symbolism in order to effectively empathize with the struggle that every college student experiences, drawing the conclusion that college is too expensive, forcing…

BOOK REPORTS The woman’s rose – Olive Schreiner. The narrator of the woman’s rose starts by describing the content of a wooden box which has been kept with special care over the years. This box is special because it contains a rose which is unique. Among the rose once belonged some other flowers but none are as important as the rose which resisted the test of time. The narrator moves on by describing the story behind her rose. When she was still fifteen, she visited a village where single men…

‘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…

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…