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Where are You Going, Where Have You Been and Everyday Things

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

"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...

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...

Six Short Stories, Summary and Analyses

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

Everyday Use by Alice Walker

This essay presents an analysis of "Everyday Use, " a short story, by Alice Walker. Nine pages in length, seven sources are cited....

The Bluest Eye & The Color Purple

that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...

Anything We Love Can Be Saved A Writer's Activism by Alice Walker

In six pages Walker takes inspiration from Winnie Mandela and Zora Neale Hurston in presenting her own personal interpretation of ...

Women Short Story Writers

In five pages four feminist short stories by Alice Munro, Susan Minot, Grace Pale, and Nadine Gordimer are thematically compared ...

Feminist Leaders, Then and Now

This research paper discusses Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary P. Ryan, and Alice Paul. The author addresses their various contributions t...

Using Structure to Develop the Story in How to Make an American Quilt and The Color Purple

This 9 page paper describes the way in which two authors use structure to develop the ideas in their books. The works under consid...

Black Feminism in 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me' and 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

feminism, and on the realities of women in general. Some of those statements are presented in her 1926 short story "Sweat" and he...

China's Feminist Movement

In seven pages this paper examines the internal and external factors that influenced China's feminist movement in a consideration ...

Feminist Reading of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

that never completely heals. She was humiliated by her slave master, who raped her, impregnated her, and beaten by his wife who t...

Meridian by Alice Walker

along the way. They have ideals, perhaps because it was popular at the time, and then "grow up." Or they are individuals with gran...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Black Women Overcoming Oppression

Ultimately, "It is through their friendships, their love, their shared oppression... that they collectively gain the strength to s...

The Banning of The Color Purple by Alice Walker

anyone who has read the book, there are some disturbing scenes in the book that are so powerfully written and detailed that the re...

The Environmental Writer Alice Walker

style. It is with this strength and power that Walkers women are able to cope with extreme situations and make their lives more w...

Mother and Daughter Relationship Conflicts in Beloved by Toni Morrison and 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a d...

Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

of these characters. Particularly insightful, Demirturk sums up the novel by stating that Tashi sacrificed her gender identity to ...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

Characterization in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...

Selfhood in Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan and The Color Purple by Alice Walker

are still fleeing nonetheless. From the moment Grace Blanket is murdered until the closing pages of the book, the Indians seem to...

Injustice in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

This paper consists of six pages and discusses how injustice manifests in the novel and how Shug, Nettie, and God, represent liber...

The Oppression Theme in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how oppression can be overcome as represented by the soaring characters who rise a...

An Epistolary Novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In a paper that consists of five pages the ways in which the novel's format represents a series of letters that have been written ...

The Characterization of Celie in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In four pages this essay explores how the character of Celie illustrates various value concepts. There is no bibliography include...

The Nettie Character in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

This is a character analysis tha consists of four pages and argues how Nellie is one of the only characters that possess strong et...

The Themes of Change and Survival in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In this essay of four pages the ways change and survival are represented in the novel and how to Celie Shug serves as the catalyst...

The Afrocentricism of Dee in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

then her family and has been divorcing herself from them for quite sometime. When Dee arrives she is decked out in bright...

The Disturbing Conflict in Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

without struggle: she recognizes that if she chooses to participate in this damaging physical ritual that she will define herself...