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

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

This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...

the story, the children would be summoned, and the narrators father would let them go, saying something to the effect of "to hell ...

she is sent to live with another family and then goes off to Africa on missionary work with them. In essence, Celie is not only ut...

being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

pleasure he has enjoyed is a violation of his rights" (Walker). As a man he is ignorantly assuming that he has the right to have s...

rationalize their own behavior. It is talk that serves to "insulate white people from examining their/our individual and collectiv...

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

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...

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...

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

about life, meeting Shug who is her husbands lover. She grows stronger and more intelligent as the story progresses and in the end...

are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...

charming and funny and sad, all at the same time. This paper explains the significance of the title by examining it using the diff...

shows the dilemma of those who seek to build a new life for themselves, at the cost of betraying their heritage. This paper discus...

of these introductory lines the reader is made privy to who the individual is in some way, where they are, and ultimately what the...

say to her" (Walker,56). Maggie views herself as mentally inferior to Dee or as Walker puts it "she knows she...

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

This essay offers critical analysis of Alice Walker's The Color Purple. The writer draws on supporting sources to argue that siste...

This essay contrasts that similarities and differences between the way that Shanym Fiske and Sonal Singh and Sushma Gupta address...

This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...

In four pages this essay examines how guilt and grief regarding 14 year old Susie's death is thematically depicted by Alice Sebold...

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...

were to me To be refresshed half so ofte as he- Which yifte of God hadde he, for alle hise wyvys? No man hath swich that in this w...

from thereon, looked different. She was no longer cute, but different. Other people did not seem to care that she looked different...

she can show off to society. In Hansberrys play the story involves a family who is awaiting an inheritance. They all have their ...

with the crops. JR: Did you ever attend school? Alice: When I was about 8 years old there were these missionaries who came to our ...