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Alice Walker: “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

Comparison and Contrast: Alice Walker and James Baldwin

struggle to find her identity, an African American identity, is obviously influenced by the white society. This is noted when her ...

Protagonist Monologues

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker

a profoundly moving parable that centers around values and what is valuable. Through the voice of Mama, a large, heavy, hard-worki...

Everyday Use and Maggie

reader the distinct impression that she is listening to everything that everyone says. This is borne out when Dee says that shes g...

Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

This essay pertains to "Possessing the Secret of Joy" by Alice Walker. A summary of the plot is given and the writer also discusse...

Hurston's Feminist Influence for Alice Walker

This essay discusses the influence of Zora Neale Hurston in regards to Alice Walker's perspective on black oral tradition and femi...

Discussion of Ways of Knowing

This essay pertains to Margaret Edson's play "Wit," and Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use." The writer argues that each of ...

'Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self' by Alice Walker

immersed in her appearance. And, then comes the accident that will change her life and her perception of herself. Up until the ...

Artists' Power in Works by Toni Morrison and J.D. Salinger

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

Compare and Contrast: Welty's Why I Live at the P.O. and Walker's Everyday Use

been. She is flighty. She moved out of the family home early, as soon as she began college, but Maggie is still living at home. Wh...

Readings on Family Reunion Theme

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

Writing Style in Alice Walker's When the Other Dancer is the Self

me turn on the one child at the school who continually calls me one-eyed bitch" (Walker). Her story is powerful, intimate, and inc...

Literature and the Theme of Appearance versus Reality

see the beauty in one who does not like reality, while Walkers story offers up, in many ways, a negative look at one who is not wi...

'Am I Blue?' by Alice Walker

used to scrawl after our stories, marked, "the end." This is true in the "thinking piece," Am I Blue. It is important for the st...

The Language and the Quilt in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

In seven pages the use of language and the symbolism of the quilt are examined within the context of Walker's short story....

Whites and Blacks as ''Natural Enemies' According to David Walker

the oppression thrust upon them by an unyielding and self-appointed superior white race. Evolution has a significant amount to do...

Ralph Ellison's Battle Royal, Alice Walker's The Flowers and Lessons Learned

cotton, peanuts and squash ... that cause excited little tremors to run up her jaws" (Walker, 2002). Clearly, Myop was a h...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Comparing Alice Walker's 'Everyday Things' with Eudora Welty's 'Why I Live at the Post Office'

it clear that there are many unsolved frictions between the two sisters, frictions which include the fact that the youngers husban...

Imagery Comparison in Alice Walker's 'The Flowers' and Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'

Myop finds herself in a "gloomy" little cove. This striking change in imagery foreshadows Myops discovery of a decomposing body. ...

Charlotte Pierce Baker and Houston A. Baker's Analysis of Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' Reviewed

A review of this critical analysis of the short story 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker is presented in seven pages. There are no ot...

Alice Walker's Sudden Trip Home in the Spring

In six pages this paper analyzes the background and meaning of this autobiographical story and the importance of symbolism. Six s...

Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

Masculinity Crisis in The Color Purple by Alice Walker, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

supervision of impoverished farm tenant Edward Covey, who had established a notorious reputation as being a "nigger breaker," youn...

Social Work and The Color Purple

her supposed advice and is incredibly confused and upset by Celies advice. While Celie is sorry she is not in a position in her li...

Film / Novel Color Purple

her, told her, "You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy (1)" which resulted in her writing letters that "are...

Listening to Color

afraid of certain colors, and therefore it falls to an interior designer to educate them on the psychology of color and to underst...

How to Watch Films

the color palette, the costumes; all of these come together to produce the picture that the director wants us to see. This is why ...