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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 dramatically. Walker becomes ashamed of herself due to her eye being different…

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…

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 why Walker made her dress as…

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…

When readers first hear the name Alice Walker, the first thing that will probably come to mind is one of her most popular works, The Color Purple. Well, besides receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National book award for The Color Purple, Walker has written several other pieces, such as seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children's books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her work continues to reach out to people, especially African American women who she writes about…

Equality and freedom for black women in the early 1900s wasn't concepts they were quite familiar with. Alice Walker is the author of “The Color Purple”. Alice Walker was 38 when she wrote this book. Alice grew up in Eatonton, Georgia. She went to two different colleges and she traveled to New York, Africa and Jackson Mississippi. This book is a series of letters to God and later her sister Nettie. These letters were written by a 14 year old girl, Celie. Celie is a poor, uneducated black woman…

Alice Malsenior Walker is an American writer who was born in a poor family and now has a book that is an American classic. She used her experiences to help her write the majority of her work, the most famous being, The Color Purple. Walker had a BB gun accident when she was a child and it impacted her life tremendously and gave her opportunities to go to college where she was influenced to become a writer. Her writing style belongs to the Contemporary or Postmodern era of literature that is…

C.I. Walker Imagine waking up one morning and being an African American woman with natural hair. You walk into your bathroom and notice that all of your hair products are empty and that you need to restock. You then grab your keys and head for the nearest Sally Beauty Salon to pick up all of your hair products. The door opens and you are walking down the aisle to find your hair products, but all the products are gone that are designed for your hair. Luckily, that is where Madam C.J. Walker…