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The paper outlines how in her essay, "Am I Blue?", Alice Walker writes about a beautiful white horse named Blue who is kept alone in a pasture next to a house she is renting. The paper explains that this story is an allegory of slavery and her theme is that animals have human qualities, but her personal fondness for this horse may have inclined her to sentimentality beyond what it actually possessed. The paper asserts that this does not really matter, for this gifted African-American writer offers such profound insights into the mysteries of this world that her compelling essays, short stories, and novels are not lessened by her creative enhancement of deeper, hidden truths that elude most of us until we reflect upon her themes, and begin to understand the deeper meanings she conveys through her characters, plots, settings, and symbolism.

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"In her essay, "Am I Blue?", Alice Walker writes about a beautiful white horse named Blue who is kept alone in a pasture next to a house she is renting. This story is an allegory of slavery and her theme is that animals have human qualities, but her personal fondness for this horse may have inclined her to sentimentality and led her to enhance the attributes and qualities of the horse beyond what it actually possessed. But this does not really matter, for this gifted African-American writer offers..."

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