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Maya Angelou and Alice Walker, 2005.
This paper discusses the courage to stand-up to fight injustice as portrayed by the female African-American writers Alice Walker in "The Color Purple" and Maya Angelou in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
875 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper explains that female African-American writers Alice Walker in "The Color Purple" and Maya Angelou in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" use the horrors of the African-American experience to draw attention to racial prejudice, injustice and sexism making their protagonists struggle for their independence and their indignity. The author points out that in "The Color Purple", Walker, telling the story in diary form in a series of letters to God and between the sisters, uses a rape scene on the first page to draw her readers into the story. The paper relates that Angelou's work, written in a more formal style, is based on her real life experiences, which makes "Caged Bird" much more disturbing than "The Color Purple".
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"One of the most disturbing parts of the book is when the young Marguerite has a toothache and visits the white dentist. The dentist is in debt to Marguerite's grandmother, but refuses to treat the child, saying, "Annie, my policy is I'd rather stick my hand in a dog's mouth than in a nigger's." Usually, her grandmother responds to such racism with quiet dignity. However, in this case, Angelou uses a dream sequence to put the Dentist in her place. She imagines her grandmother confronting the dentist behind the closed door and telling the bigot "to leave Stamps by sundown". Momma tells him when he gets to the next town he is going to live his punishment will be he has to treat dogs with mange and cats with cholera. In this way, Angelou defeats the memory of the indignity of racism and her toothache."
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Alice Walker & Ralph Ellison, 2006.
A review, discussion and analysis of the lives of two African-American writers, Alice Walker and Ralph Ellison.
3,565 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 99.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the literary forces that influenced the lives and work of two African-American writers, Alice Walker and Ralph Ellison. The paper further compares the similarities and differences between the work of these two authors.
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Introduction
Alice Walker, During & Post Civil Rights
Alice Walker's Literary Influences
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Pre-Civil Rights; Ralph Ellison's Literary Influences
Conclusion
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"The mutual appreciation and love between the two was made permanent when Walker wrote Langston Hughes: American Poet, and explained in the "Author's Note" that in Hughes' books, she "encountered a spirit very like my own: a spirit that loves people, enjoys variety, hungers for diversity and change." She liked his poetry, she wrote in "Author's Note," but "even more compelling for me was his autobiographical writing, especially The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander" (Walker 36). The literary world is full of writers who "are reluctant to write about how hard it can sometimes be to understand parents and society and the way the world is organized," Walker explained, "but not Langston." And moreover, because Hughes wrote "so honestly about his struggles with his parents, and the often-puzzling cruelties of other human beings," Walker continued in her "Author's Note," she believed she could "trust him as a writer who still remembered the world of childhood."
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Alice Walker and Oppression, 2005.
An examination of how Alice Walker explores the oppression of black women in her works.
1,205 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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Alice Walker unfolds the oppression of the black woman in her literature, perceptibly illuminating the roles they have been given to fill but to which they do not belong. This paper examines how through her characters, Alice Walker embodies the struggle of a double minority and leads them to find what so many black women have struggled and searched for a sense of identity separate and individual from what has been pressed upon them. The paper looks at works such "The Color Purple" and "The Third Life of Grange Copeland", among others.
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"Celie, from The Color Purple, is an excellent example of a woman that frees herself from an oppressor and with enormous courage discovers her own individuality. Celie is locked in a brutal relationship, barely surviving in a hollow existence where no love exists. She is a wife/slave to the nameless Mr. He controls her life with an iron fist until she finds solace and strength in another woman's arms. Shug, the other woman, helps her find her powerful voice hiding within. For the first time she is able to denounce Mr. and every evil thing he had done to her. She left brutality behind to move on and find her own place within this world."
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"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, 2007.
An analysis of the characters in the short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker.
1,605 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the differences and similarities between the three main characters, Mama, Dee and Maggie, in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use." The paper concurs with the statement made by Alice Walker that when the traits of each of the characters in "Everyday Use" are combined, the result would be a fully realized and fulfilled person.
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"The short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker is a glimpse into the lives of a mother and her two daughters. The story is told from the perspective of the mother, who is referred to in the story by the moniker Mama. The relationship between Mama and her daughters, Maggie and Dee, makes up the bulk of the story of "Everyday Use," but to understand the story on a deeper level one needs only listen to what the author of the book has to say."
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Alice Walker, 2006.
A review of the works of American author Alice Walker.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper studies the literature and poetry of African American writer Alice Walker. The paper argues that Walker unfolds the oppression of the Black woman through her writing. The paper examines some of Walker's most well-known characters, and how they embody the struggle of being a double minority -- both black and female. The paper demonstrates these women's struggle and search for a sense of identity separate and individual from what has been pressed upon them. The works studies in this paper are: "Anything We Love Can Be Saved", "The Color Purple", "Meridian" and "The Third Life of Grange Copeland"/
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"This young lady described above is distraught and lost much like the title character in Alice Walker's Meridian. It angered Meridian when she would think on the fact that none of her friends or family members had mentioned anything to her about sex or morals, for that matter. Her mother plied her puzzling euphemisms such as "Be sweet" and "Keep your panties up and your dress down" (Meridian 53). This non-information left her confused and available to be taken advantage of by the males that she dated. Pregnancy and an unwanted marriage ensued. She was forced into the role of the all-encompassing burden carrier. She became the well-loved slave, that was treated "good" because her husband didn't "cheat and beat her both"(Meridian 58). She was ironer of clothes, the tolerator of her husbands late nights, the only ears that her baby's cries fell upon. She was unhappy."
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Alice Walker, 2002.
An examination of the literary style of the novelist Alice Walker and a review of her novel "The Color Purple".
1,219 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper discusses how the novelist Alice Walker writes about her own youth and development into a woman and shows how gender roles in childhood are more flexible. It looks at how Walker's best-known work is her novel "The Color Purple", in which she writes about people she has known, people who lived in the part of the country where she grew up, and how she understands these people and the reasons for their behavior. It analyzes how the subject matter of the book is the mistreatment of black women by their men and shows how, in order to explore this theme, Walker sets her book in the mind of one victim of this abuse so that the nature of the abuse and its consequences are expressed by that character's letters.
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"The novel is set in a period around the turn of the century, not that long after the period of slavery and the Reconstruction era during which blacks were not given the "40 acres and a mule" they had been promised. The males seem to be fighting back at the only target they have any control over, their women. Though slavery was outlawed at the end of the Civil War, the social reality was that blacks in the South were still considered second-class citizens and were not given the same opportunities as whites. Their movements were also circumscribed to a great extent, and the law was on the side of the whites and not the blacks. The social attitudes that developed during the period of slavery, with one race of people elevated over another, continue in the time of this book. The black characters are living in a different kind of slavery, and this slavery derives from the fact that their opportunities are fewer when compared with the whites in the same community. Black-white tensions are not central in this novel, though they are seen in the attitudes and actions of the Mayor, but racial tensions are a subtext of the events just the same."
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Alice Walker's "Beauty", 2008.
A summary and review of Alice Walker's essay "Beauty: When the Dancer is the Self".
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper explains that Alice Walker's essay "Beauty: When the Dancer is the Self" is a brief summary of how her perception of beauty has had an impact on her internal life. The paper relates that the essay describes how, when she was young and perfect in her own eyes, she was confident. This confidence was lost when she perceived herself as greatly flawed, only to return when the scar tissue is removed. The paper then relates that, regardless of what Walker wants the reader to take away from the essay, the ending reminds the reader that even Walker's alleged acceptance of her remaining flaw is flawed in itself.
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"Rather than simple and straightforward anecdotes, Walker has to take the reader back from a moment of doubt to previous moments of acceptance. Rather than leave the reader with the idea that her doubt about her self and her beauty remains, Walker relates several brief stories that culminate in an anecdote that takes place nine years earlier, when her daughter notices the "world" in her mother's eye."
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Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", 2006.
Compares and contrasts Alice Walker's novel, "The Color Purple", with that of Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the novel.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 89.95
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The Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker was translated into cinematic form by the popular American director Steven Spielberg in 1985. The representation of a literary work in a radically different media form presents many complicated issues for directors who are not only incorporating their own vision of a text into their adaptation but must also consider such issues as commercial interests and film censors. This essay argues that the differences between the novel and the film version of "The Color Purple" are extraordinary and go beyond simple additions or omissions.
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Summary of Alice Walker's "Meridian", 2005.
The paper focuses on Meridian's role within the civil rights movement in Alice Walker's "Meridian".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 35.95
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of the basic plot and thematic elements in Alice Walker's "Meridian". A basic overview of the text is provided and also the context within which it was written. The primary focus of the report will be to situate Meridian Hill, the text's protagonist, within the context of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, in which the character fictitiously participates. Some of the structural considerations of the text are also discussed.
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"The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of the basic plot and thematic elements in Alice Walker's Meridian. To that end, I will provide a basic overview of the text and the context within which it was written. The primary focus of the report will be to situate Meridian Hill, the text's protagonist, within the context of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, in which the character fictitiously participates. I will talk somewhat about some of the structural considerations of the text, but will focus mostly on Meridian's role within the civil rights movement. In this regard, we should be able to see some of the attitudes that the author possessed regarding the Civil Rights movement and the importance of personal action as opposed to political action. Meridian is set in the American South during the 1960s.."
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Alice Walker and Tennyson, 2006.
Compares Alice Walker's essay "Am I Blue" with Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Tithonus".
1,227 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the message and style of Alice Walker's essay "Am I Blue" with Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Tithonus". The paper explains that, while the styles of the two authors as well as the eras in which they were written are very different, the message in their works, that of love and that all things pursued should be pursued in the name of and for the sake of love, are the same.
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"The speaker in "Am I Blue" is clearly the still living Alice Walker as she meanders the reader through her experiences in a Summer farm home she, her companion and the companion's Son occupy for three Summers in Georgia. She relates primarily herself and what she feels is the Black experience to the reader. Using the white horse Blue, his trials and tribulations over such mundane things as drying meadow grass, apples, and through the relationship with a mare, brown by the way. The despair over the loss of his companion then becomes Walker's vehicle for dissertations."
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Flannery O'Connor and Alice Walker, 2003.
A comparative analysis of Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" with Alice Walker's "Everyday Use".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper compares Flannery O'Connor's short story,"Good Country People" with Alice Walker's story, "Everyday Use" in terms of character, family and relationships.
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"In Flannery O'Connor's Good Country People and Alice Walker's Everyday Use there are some striking similarities to be observed with regard to such elements of literature as relationships, specifically with family place ..."
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Alice Walker, 2002.
An analysis of the literary style of the author Alice Walker.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper will discuss the technical aspects of Alice Walker's writings and how they affected her and the times that she lived in. By analyzing the way that she writes a better understanding of her style will reflect the way that she wrote and affected so many peoples lives in the realm of literature.
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Alice Walker and the Imperfect Family, 2007.
An analysis of the portrayal of family issues in eight of Alice Walker's works.
6,371 words (approx. 25.5 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 148.95
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The paper examines eight of Alice Walker's writings that show examples of the broken-family theme to illustrate the family structure changes in American society and how her personal experience affects her writings. The paper looks closely at "The Third Life of Grange Copeland," "Everyday Use," "Strong Horse Tea," "The Flowers," "How Did I Get Away With Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy," "The Color Purple," "Poem at Thirty-Nine" and "My Daughter is Coming!". The paper shows how these writings realistically portray the African-American family structure that is incomplete or broken.
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Everyday Use
Strong Horse Tea
The Flowers
How Did I Get Away With Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy
The Color Purple
Poem at Thirty-Nine
My Daughter is Coming!
Conclusion
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"At the age of eight in 1952, Alice Walker (1944- ) was shot with a pellet from her brother's BB gun in the right eye causing her blindness. This disfigurement was quite distinguishable, and Walker viewed the eye as a "deformity," which had a great impact on her life (Winchell ix). Her grades suffered and she developed a sad countenance, often feeling ashamed and suicidal. Her confidence and her belief that she was pretty vanished. Believing that her eye was permanently disfigured, Walker "retreated inward, no longer wanting to explore the wide-open spaces of nature, but instead focusing more on reading and writing than on her surroundings" (Wilson 39)."
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"The Third Life of Grange Copeland" by Alice Walker, 2006.
This paper examines Alice Walker's novel "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" and discusses the effects of culture on family life.
1,404 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 46.95
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This paper focuses on the author's perception of how society and culture creates the perpetual cycle of violence. In "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" author Alice Walker demonstrates how families are adversely affected by the culture in which they live in and the depiction of ruthless and violent treatment of family members and particular women.
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"What is it in a society or culture that creates the perpetual cycle of violence and why do individuals, generation after generation continue to accept it? Part of it is that it has happened before and future generations follow the example of those who have lived before them and never taught any other choices. Early in the novel, violence is shown to be a part of the culture in which the Copelands live. Brownfield watches as his father berates his mother, calling her names and treats her poorly."
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Alice Walker's "Everyday Use", 2002.
A literary analysis of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 9 sources, $ 80.95
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A paper analyzing the story "Everyday Use" by the Afro American writer Alice Walker.
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