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Although almost a generation apart in age, Alice Walker and Maya Angelou display remarkable similarities in their lives. Both writers have written about their experiences growing up in rural South, Angelou in her autobiographies and Walker through her essays. Even though they shared similar backgrounds, each writer has a special style which gives the reader, the front row seat of their exquisite humanity, with all its joy and sorrows. Harsh events occur with both women at the age of eight.…

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Maya Angelou It all started April 4, 1928 a woman named Margueritte Ann Johnson was born. Since her birth in St. Louis,Mo spending time around the world she has made our modern years better ! Striving through hard times as she was known for. Inspiring as she went through such a hard childhood, the racism, but she still was successful and accomplished a lot of things. She was also strong and powerful because she didnt live a fun and happy childhood and her words was very powerful into what she…

Ellen the famous talk show host has had a lot of twist and turns through her life. Ellen Degeneres first got a TV show back in 1994 and it ran until 1998. Then five years after the show ended she got a talk show that still is on tell this day. Ellen faced a lot of negativity when she showed that she was gay on her TV back in 1998. Her fans helped her with the negativity that she received. Ellen is brave,a good leader,loving,caring and impactful. That is what it takes to be a hero. Ellen is a…

In the book the color purple, Alice Walker creates the character through self discovery and love through the descriptive journal entries of Celie growing up into a woman. This story is narrated by Celie, a character unsure of who she is truly and who she can trust. In the beginning, Celie is a controlled young girl at the age of fourteen crippled by the weight of the world on her shoulders. After her mother dies she is even more afraid and has even bigger responsibilities. Celie is afraid of…

She'll always say she had a mother and and father with two younger brother. That they all lived on small and cozy neighborhood. Her mother was a doctor and her father was a stay at home dad. This is however, not true. Ophelia ran away from her foster home around the age of 12. Her mother was around 70 years old when Ophelia was born. Panda ants have a hard time finding a mate and rarely ever do, of there own species anyways. Because of her mother's age, her mother died in child birth. The father…

In the novel titled Beloved, Toni Morrison allows us to explore an African-American family’s struggle against the invigorating effects of slavery throughout the novel. Morrison mainly concentrates on the development of identities for each character through glimpses in disrupted chronology. However, the novel as a whole focuses on the effects of memory and history on the characters. In the novel, the several flashbacks of the past and the reactions to these flashbacks not only allow Sethe to feel…

SUMMARY: In the article “To Be Loved: Amy Denver and Human Need: Bridges to Understanding in Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’,” by Nicole M. Coonradt, the author goes into more depth in the story’s motives and message it tries to speak out to the reader. The article talks about slavery and its unfairness, acceptance in a community, racism, and love. Mainly, it talks more about Amy Denver—as without her, there would be no story. The author talks about the “bridges” that make up the main points in the…

that was tangible in that moment was the fact that there was immediate danger, raw and urgent and that she had to do something to keep her children from experiencing the same pain she had. She may have felt that it was her duty as a mother. Sethe shows that there is no set definition to maternal love and that maternal love does not only consist out of the ‘good’ connotations. Sometimes, love is gruesome and urgent and shocking. Sethe does not have the luxury of falling into the category of this…

Maya Angelou gained a great amount of success for an African American woman who grew up in the 1930s and 40s. Her roots in the segregated south contributed towards her drive towards success. She was an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement, having worked alongside other influential people such as Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Along with her work in the Civil Rights Movement, Angelou was a published author with over 30 poems, essays, and books. (Academy of Achievement). As a…