Category: Alice Walker

Mommy, theres a world in your eye (Walker, When the Other Dancer Is the Self 45). Seven words penetrated the hardened heart of a woman who knew nothing but cruelty concerning her battered eye. As a woman of color, physical deformity, and unique naturalistic ideals, Alice Walker rose to great heights as a black Womanist…

Introduction This chapter describes the methodology that was used in the research, the literary, and textual or discourse analysis. It includes the Language used in the novel, the Oppression in the novel, the Setting, the themes, Symbolism and Authorship in the novel of Walker. The chapter lays down how women of color particularly African American…

The protagonist of the novel is Meridian. Her dreams are about the releasing of her mother from the burden that motherhood has been.as a result brings out of the initiatory experiences that Meridian undergoes in an effort to find her identity and her own moral center where she tries to develop completeness of being. Meridian,…

Walker in Meridian shows how parenthood is ‘a holy messenger of seeing life,’ of regarding all life, of contradicting all that may smash it. It underscores that parenthood isn’t just natural state anyway a frame of mind towards life. Walker revolves around the wide racial experiences of African-Americans and as a ‘ boss of the…

Throughout Alice Walkers novel The Color Purple, she successfully communicates the importance and power of strong female relationships in several forms, so much so that it quickly becomes the main foundation of the plot. She frequently reminds the reader of the arduous battle that women living in a patriarchal society have to fight daily to…

In the essay In Search of Our Mothers Gardens, Alice Walker primarily talks about the important artistry and expression of creativity African Americans possess and how that was directly linked to their survival before they were taken into slavery and were forced into a way of living. The quote To be an artist and a…