Essays on Alice Walker

In the story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker and “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen, there are many things that are addressed because of how both of these mother’s feel guilt over how her children ultimately turned out. Both mother’s criticized themselves for their…

The Color Purple, by the American novelist Alice Walker, is not only intense and insightful, but a very thought-provoking book to read. By intense and thought-provoking, I am speaking about how the book touches and analyzes incredibly difficult and trifling aspects of the life of…

“Voice is all about your originality and having the courage to express it.” – Rachelle GardnerThrough the use of Epistolary, Black English and Standard American English, Alice Walker distinguishes unique voices between the two writers in the Color Purple.Epistolary is define as a novel composed…

Alice Walker’s Everyday Use, included in the In Love and Trouble short story collection, was published in 1973, a moment in history known as the ‘Black Power Movement’. This movement encouraged racial pride and equality. Everyday Use relates the struggles of African American women due…

The post-Reconstruction paradigm of the mid-twentieth century West gave rise to a body of literature in which wordsmiths from marginalized castes penned compositions that highlighted the pervasive institutional inequities of their respective social microcosms. Beget of this period of civil dissension, “Everyday Use” by Alice…

Alice Walker’s Meridian is a novel which has drawn out a topic of parenthood. Walker shows how parenthood is ‘ a holy messenger of seeing life’ , ‘ of esteeming all life’, of opposing all that may obliterates it’ . She, as a champion of…

An unreliable narrator is a narrator that only tells their side of the story, or one side of the story, that’s why they are an unreliable narrator. In “Everyday Use” our narrator is telling this story about her life and her children, she is speaking…

The depiction of women in “Color Purple” is one that demonstrates the nullification of women’s agency within a patriarchal society. Alice Walker shows that the voice of the woman was diminished by the manner in which men treated most women and also that some women…

Issa Black Girl Thing In Alice Walker’s “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens,” she illustrates the unappreciated talent of Black women and how throughout time this type of talent has become shared by Black women and only black women. The ability to create differently, because…

In the short story Everyday Use by Alice Walker is a glimpse into the lives of three women and how things matter differently to each of them. The narrator, Maggie’s mother, and Maggie see the artifacts described in the story as everyday things. They use…