Essays on Alice Walker

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…

Childhood innocence is a concept portrayed within writing, television, and movies. A statement of innocence, naivety, and freedom from worries. The short story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker weaves a tale of a beautiful summer day and a young girl named Myop. With positive and…