Alice Walker Monologue

I’ll tell you a story about the unfortunate event that turned a little girl’s life apart. At first she began to see the world with new eyes. Slowly she started to forget about the rainbows and the unicorns, plunging head first into the thing they call life. Slowly her shyness turned into coldness and her timid giggles into a false laugh. At some point in our lives, life disappoints us all. Each in turn seek out ways to help us forget because we learn that sometimes life is just too much.
Jimmy Sanders was sitting in the back of the class. She looked out the window at the red-tinted trees, autumn’s trees. She came back she thought. She always thought of the season as her father coming back to her childhood home. Her last hope in a world of make believe.
Intent on the history of southern tribes he didn’t pay attention to the dancing of the leaves that seduced her into nothingness.
In front of the class, Alice Walker was thinking about her lipstick and Tina’s new pink purse. The one she always wanted but couldn’t have.
The bell rung. Walker arranged her new blue shirt and sighed. “What is it Alice?” reddish boy asked with a somewhat annoyed air. “Everything!” she replied. Jimmy however, left the desk as soon as Alice began her story and went to two girls sitting alone by the window. There she listened to stories of last night’s events with the occasional interference and the biggest laugh of all the girls there. Her colleagues looked at her with envy. How was she always so happy?
The next day, early in the morning, their teacher asked them to listen