Comparison: Alice Walker
Comparison Essay
Each author has their own sense of style when it comes down to their work. Authors usually come from certain background that is incorporated into their work. Authors Alice Walker and Sandra Cisneros are unique female authors that are known for their extraordinary work. Sandra Cisneros and Alice Walker both use visual image to create an informal modern style, yet they differ in their syntax and tone. In The Flowers, author Alice Walker use of informal style creates a sense of innocence and change. Throughout the first half of the story she describes Myop as a young girl who loved to pick flowers. Then the story shifts when she finds the dead black man's body and the story abruptly ends, showing a change. “And the summer was over” (Walker 1). Alice Walker decided to abruptly end the story with this sentence showing that a great change has occurred in the end of the story taking away the calamity that was first present. Author Sandra Cisneros as well uses an informal style but uses it to show how it was growing up as the only daughter. She explains how her brothers made her feel alone because they did not want to be seen in public with a girl, shaping her into the writer she is and person as well. The visual imagery used in Sandra Cisneros Only Daughter and Alice Walker The Flowers allows the reader to get a feel as if they are there in the scene or environment. "In a sense, everything I have ever written has been for him, to win his approval even though I know my father can't read English words, ..." (Cisneros 1). Expressing how she wished her father would care about her writings in some point. I also believe Cisneros wants me as the reader to imagine if I were her at the very moment, feeling and thinking what she felt to give a clear and realistic feeling of the moment. "It seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen to smokehouse that the days had never been as beautiful as these," (Walker 1).On the other hand, Alice
Each author has their own sense of style when it comes down to their work. Authors usually come from certain background that is incorporated into their work. Authors Alice Walker and Sandra Cisneros are unique female authors that are known for their extraordinary work. Sandra Cisneros and Alice Walker both use visual image to create an informal modern style, yet they differ in their syntax and tone. In The Flowers, author Alice Walker use of informal style creates a sense of innocence and change. Throughout the first half of the story she describes Myop as a young girl who loved to pick flowers. Then the story shifts when she finds the dead black man's body and the story abruptly ends, showing a change. “And the summer was over” (Walker 1). Alice Walker decided to abruptly end the story with this sentence showing that a great change has occurred in the end of the story taking away the calamity that was first present. Author Sandra Cisneros as well uses an informal style but uses it to show how it was growing up as the only daughter. She explains how her brothers made her feel alone because they did not want to be seen in public with a girl, shaping her into the writer she is and person as well. The visual imagery used in Sandra Cisneros Only Daughter and Alice Walker The Flowers allows the reader to get a feel as if they are there in the scene or environment. "In a sense, everything I have ever written has been for him, to win his approval even though I know my father can't read English words, ..." (Cisneros 1). Expressing how she wished her father would care about her writings in some point. I also believe Cisneros wants me as the reader to imagine if I were her at the very moment, feeling and thinking what she felt to give a clear and realistic feeling of the moment. "It seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen to smokehouse that the days had never been as beautiful as these," (Walker 1).On the other hand, Alice